Neverwinter Nights

Wizards of the Coast Announces Suite of Neverwinter Products

With Gen Con Indy kicking off this weekend, Wizards of the Coast took advantage of the popular event to announce plans for a “suite” of Neverwinter products, including their Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of Neverwinter Facebook game, a new Neverwinter…

Neverwinter Nights Forums Hacked

Continuing the ongoing streak of hacked gaming websites and forums, the security of the “decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums” has been hacked, information from approximately 18,000 taken, Aaryn Flynn lets us know. All compromised users…

Ray Muzyka & Greg Zeschuk Interview

Gamasutra offers a hefty interview with BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk about their company’s history, philosophy, DLC, and specifically on Dragon Age II and Star Wars: The Old Republic. You’ve mentioned humility as one of the factors that…

Neverwinter Nights Are Bloody Long

For their latest “Monthly Musing” article, Destructoid promotes a user blog entry that recounts his or her time playing and eventually DMing a Neverwinter Nights persistent world. I never did get into the persistent world thing with NWN, but it…

A Winning Formula: The Common Thread of BioWare Games

Bright Hub briefly editorializes about the successful formula that BioWare tends to use in many of their titles, which they describe as including player choice, multiple endings, and a compelling story. A player whose character is trying to save the…

Infinity Engine Sale on Impulse

Impulse has put a chunk of its Atari catalogue on sale, which means 25% off of classic BioWare and Black Isle Studios titles: Baldur’s Gate Complete, Baldur’s Gate II – Shadows of Amn + Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale Complete,…

The Very Important List of PC Games, Parts 1 and 2

Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s crew has been putting together a list of the “greatest, most important PC games of all time”, rating their importanceness and doing short writeups. Included in part one are System Shock (importanceness: Quite High), Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines…

Den of Geek’s History of RPGs

The staff over at Den of Geek has put together a quick history of role-playing games, in which they briefly cover the genre’s tabletop roots before profiling many of the stand-out titles of the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s. One of…