Neverwinter Nights

IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time, Part 4

Now we’re getting to the good stuff. The 4th part of IGN’s top RPG list includes entries 21-40, with a fair share of must-have titles for such a list among them. Some examples: Fallout – 38 Post-apocalyptic imagery is somewhat…

BioWare Forums to be Shuttered

A post on the official BioWare blog brings word that the EA-owned developer intends to shutter their long-running forums on August 26th of this year. I can’t say that I spent more than a brief period of time on the…

Neverwinter Nights Made Me Love Games

In an editorial published on Kotaku, we learn how much of an impact BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights had on the author during their earliest days of playing video games, while also hearing that current BioWare employees, including level designer Jess Hara…

David Gaider Leaves BioWare

Just like when Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka left BioWare and Chris Avellone left Obsidian, this is yet again a case where I find it difficult to imagine this particular developer outside the studio he’s worked at for so long. And…

The Damned DM Delusion

In his latest RPG Scrollbars column for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Richard Cobbett discusses the various games that attempted to implement a Dungeon Master mode throughout the years, and why ultimately they all failed to provide an experience that feels even…

Why BioWare’s Games Inspire a Unique Kind of Fandom

The editors at PC Gamer have editorialized about the fervent fanbase that BioWare enjoys due to the studio’s story-crafting abilities, the interactivity they present in each of their titles, their inclusion of homosexual romances, and their focus on character customization.…

BioWare 2000-2009 Period Interview

RPG Codex has published an interview with ex-BioWare developer Brent Knowles, who was the lead designer on Dragon Age: Origins, with a particular focus on the PC-focused titles BioWare published during the first decade of the 21st century. There’s a…

D&D Titles Get Language Packs and Macintosh Ports

A celebration is in order if you’re an OS X gamer, as GOG.com has announced that Baldur’s Gate: The Original Saga, Baldur’s Gate II Complete, Icewind Dale Complete, Icewind Dale II Complete, Planescape: Torment, and The Temple of Elemental Evil…

Stormfront Studios Co-Founder David Bunnett Passes Away

Gamasutra brings the sad news that Beyond Software/Stormfront Studios co-founder and art director David Burnett has passed away of heart failure. Long-time CRPG fans will no doubt recall his graphics work on the original Neverwinter Nights for AOL, Gateway to the…