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Straight from the Camelot Herald: =================================== Dark Age of Camelot Version 1.68b Release Notes February 26, 2004 =================================== NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES – Some users were experiencing pauses in open field RVR combat with our initial optimization patch, as…

We’ve posted a preview of Big Blue Box’s Fable, in which Baedden discusses the RPGs of 2003 and why this upcoming Xbox RPG could be a strong hit in 2004. An excerpt: Despite being in development for four years, little…

GamerDad has posted a review of Silent Storm, giving the turn-based strategy/RPG title an overall score of 4 Their final thoughts: The bottom line is Silent Storm is an excellent game. However, it requires two ingredients to be so: time…

Straight from Yahoo Finance: Electronic Arts to close Austin studio LOS ANGELES, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. (NasdaqNM:ERTS – News) will close down its Austin, Texas studio, home to the “Ultima Online” franchise, by the…

GameSpy has put together preview of Cryptic Studios’ City of Heroes, the upcoming superhero MMORPG. A snippet: Paragon City, the fictional metropolis in which the game is based, has seen better days. An alien invasion obliterated the superhero population, and…

Origin’s Jon “Calandryll” Hanna has written a new designer diary on GameSpot, in which he talks about “putting the role-playing back in massively multiplayer role-playing.” A snippet: In UXO, instead of having to wander around looking for NPCs to give…

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PCKiller has posted a review of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, giving the RPG an overall score of 5 Their conclusion to follow: I must say that this game is probably the best RPG title I have ever…

The Interational Game Developers Associate issued a press release earlier today announcing the nominees for the Game Developer’s Choice Awards, which includes a few RPGs. The full press release to follow: Nominees Named for Game Developers Choice AwardsRecipients to Be…