Neverwinter Nights 2

Chris Avellone Interview

Eurogamer had the opportunity to sit down with Obsidian Entertainment’s Chris Avellone for a hefty four-page interview about a range of topics related to the Fallout series, Alpha Protocol, Aliens: Crucible, the definition of an RPG, and more. Eurogamer: So…

J.E. Sawyer Blog Update

Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer has made another rare appearance on the company’s blog system to discuss the principes that he adheres to when implementing “player-driven dialogue in choice-heavy RPGs”. * Dialogue should inform and entertain players — inform them about…

GB Feature: Signed Obsidian Entertainment Swag Giveaway

What’s better than a free copy of Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir? How about a copy of Storm of Zehir signed by over thirty members of the expansion pack’s development team? And if that isn’t enough, perhaps you’d be…

Feargus Urquhart Interview

Recruiting firm TS2 has announced their pick for the “Most Successful & Respected” executive producer in the video game industry, and the nod goes to Obsidian Entertainment’s Feargus Urquhart. To commemorate the event, they’ve published an interview they did with…

The Art of Game Polish: Developers Speak

Obsidian Entertainment’s Twitter feed is pointing to a “The Art of Game Polish” article on Gamasutra, where several team members from both Obsidian and BioWare weigh in on what defines a polished video game. Some interesting feedback to be found,…

GB Feature: Storm of Zehir Walkthrough and More

We’re pleased to announce that our Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir walkthrough is now finished, and that our equipment, feat, and spell databases have been updated to include all of the additions the expansion pack made to the game.…

Chris Avellone: General Design Questions, Part One

Veteran RPG designer Chris Avellone took a moment out of his busy day to answer quite a few fan-submitted design questions on the company’s blog system. Part one includes nine questions, the second of which I’ll quote below: 2. Do…

Neverwinter Nights 2 Retrospective Interview

Bitmob has published a long but excellent interview with Obsidian Entertainment’s Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Rob McGinnis, Richard Taylor, George Zeits, and Scott Everts about the development of Neverwinter Nights 2, the goals they had with Mask of the Betrayer…

Neverwinter Nights 2 v1.23.1765 Patch Released

While working on our Storm of Zehir walkthrough, we discovered that Obsidian Entertainment has released the promised v1.23.1765 for Neverwinter Nights 2. In addition to fixing several crashes, the patch “modifies the SecuROM implementation” and removes the requirement to have…

Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate Review

Just RPG has cranked out a short review of Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate, giving Ossian’s adventure pack an overall score of 90 Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate is a great Adventure Pack, and it is an easy…