Neverwinter Nights 2

Chris Avellone Interviews

An interview with Chris Avellone where he talks about his involvement with Owlcat’s Pathfinder: Kingmaker has popped up on Facebook. It’s not overly long and mostly revolves around the Pathfinder universe and how it translates into a video game. A…

IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time, Part 2

The second part of IGN’s Top 100 RPGs has been revealed. Entries 61-80 include a disproportionate number of Japanese games with several notable exceptions. Here are some of them: Icewind Dale II – 76 Compared to other games in its…

George Ziets Interview, Parts Three and Four

Rather than make us wait any longer, Forbes has published the third and fourth entries to the interview they conducted with veteran RPG designer George Ziets, thus concluding the series. The writing-related topics this time around are “Engaging the Player”…

George Ziets Interview, Part Two

The second installment in Forbes’ four-part interview with veteran RPG designer George Ziets is now online, with this particular entry focusing on “Collaboration in Game Development” and the role that collaboration plays in his current position on Torment: Tides of…

George Ziets Interview, Part One

Forbes has started to crank out a four-part interview with veteran RPG designer George Ziets, and while Torment: Tides of Numenera is the primary topic of conversation, we hear about George’s writing career in video games as a whole and…

Chris Avellone Livestream Interview

The one and only Chris Avellone participated in a livestreamed interview with Colm Larkin, the creator of Guild of Dungeoneering from The Irish Game Makers Association. They chatted for about an hour. The trip down the memory lane starts with…

PC Gamer’s Best RPGs of All Time 2016 Edition

People love “best of” lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The criteria are nebulous at best, and the genre itself doesn’t do them any favors, but this is…

Feargus Urquhart Digital Dragons 2016 Talk Video

The folks at Polish games conference Digital Dragons have published on YouTube a recording of the speech Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian Entertainment, gave at the conference this year. You can find the video embedded below: The talk focuses on…

More RPGs that Brought Something New to the Table

Felipe Pepe has penned yet another Gamasutra article on little-known but innovative RPGs. This time the Phantasie series, Hillsfar, Super Deformed Snatcher (the RPG version of Hideo Kojima’s adventure game), Shadowlands and the Maimed God’s Saga mod for Neverwinter Nights 2…