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Mythic Entertainment Files Suit Against Microsoft

Interesting, indeed: Mythic Entertainment Files Suit Against Microsoft for Trademark Infringement ‘Stop Using Our Name,’ Says Online Game Industry’s Leading Independent Developer and Publisher FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the award-winning massively multiplayer…

Hordes of the Underdark Review

VideoGamesLife has posted a review of Hordes of the Underdark, giving the Neverwinter Nights expansion an overall score of 85 Check it out: What elevates Hordes over its two predecessors is a narrative that engages you all the time, drip-feeding…

DAoC Hibernian Frontier

Mythic’s Matt Firor stopped by the Camelot Herald to present the proposed consolidation changes they’re making to the Hibernian frontier in Dark Age of Camelot. Here’s a snip of what he had to say: As promised, here’s the concept sketch…

Star Wars Galaxies Interview

GameSpy has sat down with Star Wars Galaxies Producer, Haden Blackman, and Lead Systems Designer, Dan Rubenfeld, to discuss Jedi in the MMORPG and the ramifications they have on the player community. Here’s a little something to get you started:…

Deus Ex: Invisible War Reviews

Two more sites have written up their reviews for Ion Storm’s recently released Deus Ex: Invisible War. The first is at NetJak with an overall score of 9/10: We’re going to start seeing games with visual quality and physics model…

Middle-Earth Dev Diary

Turbine’s official Middle-Earth Online website has been updated with a new dev diary from Griffon, Game Systems Designer, in which he explains the philosophy of ethics. A snippet to follow: To start off, let’s imagine the case of the hero…

GameBanshee Feature: News Archives

We are pleased to announce a new feature that will allow you to search through all the role-playing game news that we’ve posted over the years. The search feature works pretty good overall, but we’ve only been adding the paragraph…

Interplay Wins An Interesting Award…

The guys at ShackNews have issued their “Warshaw Awards” for 2003, giving Interplay “The Save Costs by Killing Off Your Best Asset Award” after they closed down Black Isle Studios. Funny stuff… The Save Costs by Killing Off Your Best…

Temple of Elemental Evil Wins Old School RPG Award

GameSpy’s “Best of 2003” awards are up, with Troika’s Temple of Elemental Evil taking home the best “Old School RPG” award. Here’s what they had to say: No game brought back memories of the old pen-and-paper Dungeons & Dragons days…

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II Preview

EDBIS has put together a preview of Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II, Interplay’s soon-to-be-released action RPG for both the Xbox and PS2. Check it out: If you liked the first Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, you should like this game too.…