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Heroes Don’t Craft

Richard Cobbett has penned an analysis – more of a rant, really – of crafting in RPGs and other video games that comes to a simple, very basic conclusion: heroes don’t craft. Cobbett’s comical frustrations aside, many complaints in the piece…

Don’t Call The Surge “Sci-fi Dark Souls”

PCGamesN has published a preview/interview for Deck13’s The Surge, a sci-fi action-RPG inspired in parts to Dark Souls and the company’s previous project, Lords of the Fallen, which they developed in conjunction with City Interactive. Studio CEO Jan Klose is…

Baldur’s Gate Original Edwin Portrait Revealed

The latest post on Beamdog’s official blog, the Beamblog, is mostly dedicated to talk about Fantasy Grounds, an application designed to help players of tabletop role-playing games play their campaigns online. What’s of interest to us, however, is the fact…

Fallout Shelter v1.4 Update Released

The folks at Bethesda Game Studios have released a new update for Fallout Shelter, their free-to-play mobile spin-off of the post-apocalyptic role-playing series. The update introduces crafting, appearance customization for the vault dwellers, and a number of new items and…

Hard West: Scars of Freedom DLC Announced

The developers at CreativeForge Games have announced a new piece of downloadable content for Hard West, their turn-based strategy/RPG set in the wild west. It’s titled Scars of Freedom, and it will offer a tale inspired by Frankenstein and set…

It’s Time to Come Back to Pillars of Eternity

MMORPG.com’s Christopher Coke penned a piece to praise Obsidian Entertainment’s post-release support of Pillars of Eternity and the new expansion that’s been recently released for the title, going as far as to argue that there’s never been a better time…

Warren Spector Interview

One of the early tangible results of Warren Spector’s return to game development is the increased amount of interviews with the veteran developer, who worked on titles such as System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief: The Dark Project and Epic Mickey.…