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RPGDot’s latest article takes a look at the gaming industry’s recent turn toward action RPGs and what effect they have on the future of CRPGs. A snippet: Meanwhile, some big names are hard at work and they won’t be satisfied…

Mythic Entertainment has announced that players that have taken a break from Dark Age of Camelot can return to the game for two weeks of free play. Here’s the full news post from the Camelot Herald: We’re kicking off a…

Straight from the Camelot Herald: =================================== Dark Age of CamelotVersion 1.70i Release NotesJuly 1, 2004 =================================== NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES – The Necromancer Death Servant line of damage shields now properly scale past level 24. – We have fixed…

The last few months have been ugly for the MMORPG scene, with EA’s Ultima X: Odyssey being the latest game to be cancelled. Straight from the official website: Dear Ultima X: Odyssey community members, As of today, development on Ultima…

In GameSpy’s fifth installment to their Bard’s Tale developer diary, game designer Sean Patton discusses a typical day in the life of a video-game scripter. A snippet: Once you get the design team’s vision on a piece of paper, the…

BioWare’s official website has been updated with the following: Download a beautiful Jade Empire wallpaper of Wu the Lotus Blossom just released today. For NWN fans, check out two new epic character builds: the Combat Medic and the Magical Marauder.…

Our latest hardware review details just how good games, movies, and music sound on a set of ProMedia Ultra 5.1 speakers from Klipsch. The speakers earned a 9.1/10 and our Editor’s Choice Award. A snippet: Once we had everything hooked…

Boomtown has tossed up a review of Warlords Battlecry III, giving Infinite Interactive’s RTS/RPG hybrid an overall score of 7 Their final paragraph to follow: Presenting a game as a crossover between genres presents a potential problem which Warlords has…

GameDaily has written up a preview of Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, the upcoming Middle-Earth RPG from Electronic Arts. An excerpt: One of the main complaints with many RPGs this generation is the fact that they seem very…