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Dungeons & Dragons Returns to Ravenloft with Curse of Strahd

Over the weekend, rumors swirled regarding Wizards of the Coast’s plans to bring the Ravenloft setting back to the forefront in Dungeons & Dragons, and this morning’s announcement confirms that they are, indeed, heading that direction with a new 5th…

Time and Seasons in RPGs

Inspired by a recent mod that offers four different landscapes matching the four seasons in the Commonwealth for Fallout 4*, Richard Cobbett penned an article on the passage of time in RPGs for his Rock, Paper, Shotgun weekly columns. In the…

Does Diablo III Patch 2.4.0 Impact Console Performance?

The editors over at Eurogamer have posed this very question after reports on Blizzard’s forums appeared to indicate that at least some players – particularly those with the PlayStation 4 version of the action RPG – are experiencing framerate issues after…

Some of the Coolest Stuff That Was Cut From Fallout 4

Kotaku has dug through the Fallout 4 data files and put together a six-minute video that illustrates some of the content that was clearly cut from the game, including an underwater quest called “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, a harpoon…

Grim Dawn Build 30 Released

Crate Entertainment’s ambitious action RPG Grim Dawn reached a “content complete” state with the release of Build 29, but the team has not slowed down development on the game since and is still moving forward at a quick pace toward…

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Updates

The official Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues website has several more updates since we last checked, with the current update total clocking in at 159. Update #159 is particularly interesting as it announces the team’s plans to detail the…

BattleTech Post-funding Updates #22-23

A quick check-in at the BattleTech Kickstarter campaign reveals that the Harebrained team has recently published two more updates, with Update #22 providing an end-of-year development report and Update #23 hammering home the fact that BackerKit accounts have now been…

Underrail Video Interview, Part Two

The latest episode of Matt Chat includes the second part of the chat Matt Barton had with Underrail developer Dejan Radisic, otherwise known as “Styg”, who talks about Wasteland 2, cooldowns in role-playing games, balance in general, encounters with rats,…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Producer’s Letter

In addition to reflecting back upon the content and player-focused enhancements they made to Dungeons & Dragons Online throughout 2015 in the latest producer’s letter, executive producer “Severlin” has also given us a quick teaser of what to expect from…