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Top 5 Games (April 2016)

It has been over six months since I last wrote one of my top five played games lists and there have been a lot of changes. In fact only one game is on both lists and that’s dropped three places.…

10 Lessons From Fallout 4 Survival Mode

The beta version of the new and extremely taxing Survival mode was released last week and I’ve done my best to wrestle the foul mutated beast into submission. However, after becoming extremely battered and bruised from trying, I learned that…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Released on GOG

One of Troika’s best-remembered classics, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, is now available on GOG, a storefront focused largely on old and oft-forgotten classics and on which Bloodlines had been mysteriously absent for years. The Activision-published title costs $19.99 and only includes the…

In The Cards

Richard Cobbett has penned yet another RPG Scrollbars column for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and this time he focuses his attention on card game spin-offs and minigames. With the explosion of Hearthstone in the last few years and the success of…

Fable Legends Was Far From a Disaster

Eurogamer’s Martin Robinson penned an interesting look at the strengths (and weaknesses) of Fable Legends, Lionhead’s free-to-play co-op/PvP-focused action-RPG that was cancelled with the proposed closure of the studio. Here’s an excerpt on the art: Legends’ Albion was a beautiful…

Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Video Interview

Gregory “ArvanEleron” Wilson has had the chance to interview Beamdog CEO Trent Oster and Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear lead designer Phillip Daigle on his Twitch.tv channel. We’re talking about a pretty lengthy interview, that tackles the guiding principles used to…

Tyranny Interview

While we wait for more information on the title to be released, you might want to read this new interview with a Tyranny developer at Obsidian over at Canadian website Gamer Québec, which talks about the game’s basic gameplay systems, the…