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Horizons Website Update

The official Horizons website has updated their models section with a revised version of the Orc, as well as an animation.

Nibble one last time

The morsel of choice today is Guild Halls. Included are some very nice renderings of the various guild halls as well as a short descriptive paragraph. Along with this announcement is the promise of a huge update tomorrow, to mark…

Richard Garriot Article

GameSpy has also posted up an article based upon an interview with Richard Garriot about his new venture, Destination Games. The article contains some good history about Lord British, as well as where he plans to take his company towards…

Throne of Bhaal Screenshots

4Players.de, a German gaming site, has posted up 40 screenshots from Interplay’s recent preview release of Throne of Bhaal. You can find all the new images right here.

TORN Dev Diary Volume 2

There’s another volume of the TORN Developer Diary over on GameSpy, posted by Brian Mitsoda of Black Isle Studios. A snippet to follow: As I am currently writing characters for E3 (which will someday become the TORN demo), I’d thought…

Arcanum Music Interview

RPGDot has posted an interview with Ben Houge, Sierra’s in-house composer for their upcoming RPG Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura. Here’s a taste: RPGDot: What is your favourite project so far and why? Ben Houge: Arcanum has probably been…

Why Can’t Players Control a Party

Why not parties like the BG series? Why can’t modules be created where one player can import or create an entire party? Like Icewind Dale? …not only is the game designed to scale in difficulty dynamically based on the “power”…

CD Key Security

Gamer asks about ‘banning by cd key’: I was just wondering what kind of protection is likely to be in place for our cd keys? Please correct me if I’m wrong with my assumption. We all know that a DM…

Mimesis Online Diary

One of the more recent entrances into the MMORPG development market is Tannhauser Gate Studio’s Mimesis Online. Not much is known about the game as of yet, except that it has a cool logo and even cooler premise. There are…

Age of Wonders 2: A Graphical High

It’s not technically an RPG but it’s close enough, and by virtue of the game’s graphical splendor gains an entrance pass to this newsbit. To put it mildly, the turned-based sequel Age of Wonders 2’s 2D graphics are so good…