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The third installment to RPGVault’s sixth RPG Roundtable feature is now available, this time including comments from Flagship Studios’ Bill Roper, Irrational Games’ Ken Levine, and others. Ken’s take on why “They don’t make RPGs like they used to”: Many…

The guys at gameSlave have tossed up their own review of Pirahna Bytes’ Gothic 3, giving the newly released RPG an overall score of 7.0 In the end, Gothic 3 emerges a solid RPG. While there’s no denying impressive size…

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that their highly anticipated World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion pack has been delayed until January 2007. IRVINE, Calif. — Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that the release date for World of Warcraft®: The Burning Crusadeâ„¢,…

The folks at WorthPlaying were able to get their hands on eight new screenshots from Sony Online’s EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer expansion pack.

Activision and Raven Software issued a press release earlier today announcing that Marvel: Ultimate Alliance has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Ships Control of the world’s largest army of Super Heroes is now in the hands of…

RPGWatch has posted a designer diary for Heretic Kingdoms: Reluctant Hero, in which lead designer Chris Bateman discusses the process of incorporating original ideas into an RPG. What are the strengths of the classic cRPG? It’s worth noting that almost…

Jefklak’s Codex has published an article entitled “On Killing a Lich”, in which they take a closer look at the powerful undead creature that shows up in many classic role-playing games. It just wouldn’t be a lich article without mentioning…

The second installment to RPGVault’s sixth RPG Roundtable feature is now available, this time including comments from Flagship Studios’ Erich Schaefer, CD Projekt’s Lukasz Mach, and others. Erich’s take on why “They don’t make RPGs like they used to”: Truthfully,…

Turbine’s official The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar website has been updated with a profile of everyone’s favorite Middle-Earth wizard, Gandalf. Also known as the Grey Wizard (his Sindarin name Mithrandir means “Grey Pilgrim”), Gandalf is perhaps…

Planewalker Games’ official The Broken Hourglass website has been updated with a detailed overview of how XML datafiles provide information for the WeiNGINE-powered game. One of the major design goals of WeiNGINE was to make it easy for developers to…