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Ultima X: Odyssey Interview

GameZone Online has conducted an interview with Origin’s Jonathan “Calandryll” Hanna, asking the lead designer a batch of questions about the upcoming Ultima X: Odyssey. An excerpt: Q: What is the underlying story to this game? How many races will…

Andred Going Offline on February 26th

Mythic’s Sanya Thomas stopped by the Camelot Herald to announce that the PvP server Andred will be going offline for good on February 26th. Here’s the gist of the post: As you all know, the server itself has been closed…

Dark Age of Camelot 7-Day Trial & Contest

GameSpy has announced a new promotion in which they’re offering a 7-day trial of Dark Age of Camelot for download on FilePlanet, coupled with a contest to win an assortment of prizes. Here’s the full email, straight from my inbox:…

Tim Cain Interview

Troika’s Tim Cain elaborates on several game-related topics in a new “Ad Personam” interview at RPGDot. Here’s a snip of what was said: Q: If you could do any game, regardless of money and developing time, what would it be?…

Half-Life 2 Engine Licensed For Another RPG

Check it out: February 3, 2004 Valve, developer of best selling games and leading edge technologies, today announced a Source Engine licensing partnership with Arkane Studios, creators of Arx Fatalis. Already in development, Arkane’s Source-based project is targeted for the…

Vampire: Bloodlines Delay Possibility

CNN Money has dished up a new article in which they discuss the theft of the source code for Half-Life 2 and its reprecussions, including the delay of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines until 2005. The pertinent details to follow:…

SpellForce Preview

RPGVault has put together a preview of SpellForce: The Order of Dawn, Phenomic and JoWood’s RTS/RPG hybrid. Check it out: Phenomic has described its game as being in the neighborhood of 70 percent real-time strategy and 30 percent RPG. Such…

GB Feature: Fallout 1 & 2 Subsites

Although the original Fallout games are several years old, they are two of the most influential and expansive RPGs ever created. With the recent news that Interplay let most of Black Isle Studios go, we decided to open subsites as…

RPG Roundtable #4, Part Three

The third installment of RPGVault’s fourth RPG Roundtable feature is now available, which includes comments from three developers – Irrational Games’ Ken Levine, Mad Doc Software’s Matthew Nordhaus, and inXile’s Brian Fargo. A snippet from Matthew Nordhaus: Magic in RPGs…