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3D Games is offering up a collection of trailers showing off in-game footage of Ascaron Entertainment’s Sacred 2.

Voodoo Extreme has published their 2006 Game of the Year awards, which includes nods for both Titan Quest and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Titan Quest walked away with the Best Action/Role-Playing Game and Best Art Direction awards while Oblivion…

ComputerAndVideoGames.com has posted two separate “State of Play” interviews, quizzing Dungeon Siege creator Chris Taylor and Deus Ex creator Warren Spector about the state of PC gaming. A snip from the Chris Taylor interview: Q: Windows Vista of course heralds…

Armchair Arcade has published the first installment of an extensive “History of CRPGs” article, in which they focus on role-playing games released from 1980 to 1983. This is one of the better CRPG articles I’ve ever read: Tunnels of Doom,…

The seventy-seventh issue of Escapist Magazine contains five new articles, including one that tracks the rise and fall of Troika Games. During Troika’s seven-year existence, they never worked with the same publisher twice, and the company was constantly criticized for…

I’d like to extend a wish of happy holidays to all of you who have stopped by and helped make 2006 a great year for GameBanshee! 2006 will probably always be known as the year where “all role-playing games must…

A few more reviews of Obsidian Entertainment’s Neverwinter Nights sequel reached the web just before the holidays. The first is at GamingTrend with an overall score of 85%: Neverwinter Nights 2 is a compelling representation of the D&D 3.5 ruleset.…

IGN PC has posted a three-page interview with EA Mythic’s Steve Perkins, quizzing the director of marketing about their upcoming PvP-heavy MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Q: How do you remain faithful to the spirit of the Warhammer universe…

GameSpy has posted their first regional profile for Funcom’s Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, providing us with a closer look at the game’s Khopshef Province. The Hyborian deserts contain secrets older than mankind itself. Nowhere is this more evident than…

MMORPG.com was able to track down several Cryptic Studios employees for a short interview about the company’s recruitment process. Q: What’s it like working in the online gaming industry, and at Cryptic specifically? Michael Lewis: Game players must think its…