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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Video Critique

Christopher Franklin has published a new video essay on his YouTube channel Errant Signal in which he critiques Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The vast majority of the video focuses about the game’s perceived thematic failures, which Franklin links to its…

Battle.net Rebranding Strategy Revealed

No, it’s not one of Blizzard Entertainment’s elaborate April Fools’ jokes. Instead, the company has realized that slapping the name “Battle.net” on the global network infrastructure that has served as the foundation to all of their games and other services…

Sorcerer King: Rivals Screenshots, Let’s Play, and Preview

Stardock’s Brad Wardell has been busy sharing various assets and other tidbits of information for Sorcerer King: Rivals on his Facebook feed as we move closer to the strategy/RPG follow-up’s release tomorrow, including a set of four new screenshots and…

MMO Jails and Virtual Porridge

The latest RPG Scrollbars weekly column from Richard Cobbett focuses on jails in MMO. Specifically, we’re talking about the jails developers have set up for players who cheat and use exploits, rather than any in-game crime system. Here’s an example…

Dishonored 2 “Creative Kills” Gameplay Video

The marketing on Dishonored 2 is understandably pushing many of the same angles Bethesda chose for the original, and as a result we get a new video showcasing creative kills. Both available player characters, Emily and Corvo, are shown with…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Producer’s Letter

I’m starting to wonder if there was some internal backlash to the news of layoffs and a mobile development focus at Turbine, as we’ve since heard some of the most ambitious plans to date for the now 10-year-old Dungeons &…