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Spike TV’s 2005 Video Game Award Nominees

Spike TV has announced the nominees for their Video Game Awards 2005 event, with five of the games we cover on GameBanshee making the list. Of course, they all fall into the “Best RPG” category: Jade Empire(TM) (Microsoft Game Studios)X-Men…

BioWare Recognized as a Top 100 Employer

BioWare sent over a press release earlier today announcing that they have been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers. EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, October 25, 2005 BioWare Corp. is honoured to announce that it has been recognized as one…

Dungeon Siege II Reviews

The new week brings us a couple more reviews for Microsoft and Gas Powered Games’ Dungeon Siege sequel. The first is at GameBoomers with an overall score of 79%: Fans of hack and slash RPGs should be in their element…

Fable: The Lost Chapters Review

IGN Xbox has written up a short review of Fable: The Lost Chapters, giving the newly released Xbox version an overall score of 8.6 Here’s why: Fable is an incredibly fun RPG that wooed us when it first hit the…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Concept Art

Turbine’s official Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach website has been updated with eight new pieces of concept art. This batch features concepts for Spectres, Earth Elementals, Wights, Scimitars, House Kundarak, and a giant Cathedral.

Heroes of Might and Magic V Preview

RPGDot has dished up a short preview of Ubisoft’s upcoming fifth installment in the Heroes of Might and Magic series. An excerpt to follow: Exploration and quests take place on the world map and not every secret can be uncovered…

Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich Reviews

It’s been awhile since we’ve reported about any Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich reviews, but today we bring you news of two fairly positive ones. The first is at Amped IGO with an overall score of 9.1/10: Our recommendation…

Horizons: Empire of Istaria Q&A

GamersInfo continues their series of Horizons: Empire of Istaria Q&As by shooting several questions over to Tulga Games chief technology officer Rick Simmons. A snip: Q: Tell me about your “professional” life before Horizons. What experience do you have? And…

City of Villains Screenshots

The guys at Boomtown have whipped up two sets of new screenshots from Cryptic Studios’ City of Villains, just in time for the game’s release. Check ’em out here and here.

Dragonshard Review

The folks at PGNx Media have tossed up their own review of Dragonshard, giving the RTS/RPG hybrid an overall score of 8.5 Their final paragraph to follow: D&D fans and RTS fans looking for something different should give Dragonshard. It…