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The Banner Saga 3 Updates, #353,080 and Counting

The Banner Saga 3 is in the last three days of its Kickstarter campaign. With some time still left for the final push, the penultimate stretch goal of $350,000 has been reached. This means Ubin, the Scrivener will return for…

Planescape: Torment & Torment: Tides of Numenera Connections

With the long-awaited release of Torment: Tides of Numenera finally upon us, GOG has an interview with Colin McComb and Adam Heine, talking about the connections and parallels between the new game and its glorious predecessor. An excerpt: Let’s start…

Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn Retrospective

Gulf News’ Game Masters column has a retrospective of everyone’s beloved Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. The game definitely deserves all the attention it continues to get, even considering that its original release happened back in the year 2000.…

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Immersion, VR, & Where We Draw The Line

In recent years virtual reality became a reality, and it might be too much for us. In this article I’ll detail VR’s role in immersion, arguing VR has both helped and hurt immersion. Virtual reality (hereafter “VR”) gaming enjoys a…

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Limited Time Trial

It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached a 217th update and 39 separate builds for Portalarium’s still-unreleased Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, but it seems like we might finally be approaching the game’s “official” debut as the team has…

SpellForce III PvP Teaser Video

PAX East kicks off in under a week, and since THQ Nordic will have a significant presence there, they’ve teased us with a minute-long video showcasing the player vs. player combat approach they’re taking with SpellForce 3. Since this particular…

Torment: Tides of Numenera Reviews

inXile’s spiritual successor to the brain-etching Planescape: Torment has been taking the world by storm all week, and that means that there is another batch of critiques to draw your attention to. Kotaku doesn’t leave us with a score: I…

No Truce With the Furies Preview

No Truce With the Furies is an upcoming police-procedural RPG with an incredibly intriguing role-playing system. So far, most of what we know about the game came from the official developer blog. The folks at RPG Codex decided to remedy…

System Shock Remake Update #29, Pre-Alpha Trailer

The great announcement promised in the previous update for Nightdive Studios’ System Shock is here, and it is great indeed. The game, rather sneakily, moved away from Unity Engine and onto Unreal Engine 4. And while the reason given is…

Styx: Shards of Darkness “Cooperative Assassination” Trailer

Cyanide Studio’s Styx: Shards of Darkness will support co-op multiplayer throughout its campaign, and since the stealth-focused RPG is only eleven days away from release, publisher Focus Home fired over a new “cooperative assassination” trailer that gives us a sampling…