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City of Heroes/Villains Interview

Boomtown had the opportunity to chat with Cryptic Studios designer Melissa Bianco during a recent City of Heroes/Villains press event. Q: One of the themes of issue 8 seems to be rewarding long-term players with various funky upgrades for example…

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Previews

Both GameSpot and Voodoo Extreme have conjured up new hand-on previews of Blizzard’s upcoming World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion pack. A snip from GameSpot’s article: The Exodar is almost certainly the largest city in Azeroth, and even as…

Neverwinter Nights 2 Elite Races Detailed, Part Two

Obsidian Entertainment has released information and images for two more Neverwinter Nights 2 races – the Drow and the Svirfneblin. You’ll find the Drow profiled over at IGN’s Neverwinter Vault: Driven underground ages ago by their kin, the drow, also…

Mage Knight: Apocalypse Reviews

A trio of new reviews for Namco’s Mage Knight: Apocalypse have surfaced, though they’re all fairly critical. The first is at Computer Games Romania with an overall score of 44/100: Even if you can escape the stupidity of the AI,…

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PS3 Interview

The folks at IGN have published a two-page interview with Bethesda Softworks’ Todd Howard about the upcoming PS3 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Q: How different will this version be from the others? If I’ve played this before,…

Neverwinter Nights 2 Designer Diary #4

GameSpot has posted a fourth designer diary for Neverwinter Nights 2, this time with lead designer Josh Sawyer breaking down his ten favorite features in the game. It just wouldn’t be D&D without the following: Dragon Encounters – There was…

EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer Preview

GameZone has kicked up a preview of SOE’s EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer, based on what we know about the expansion pack up to this point. New armor will be entering the game, in the form of a dark flame…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Feat Respec Details

Turbine’s official Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach website has been updated with information about the game’s upcoming feat respec option in Module 3: Demon Sands. Personally, I’d rather allocate my attribute or skill points, but I doubt I could afford…