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GameBanshee Feature: Wizardry 8 Preview

We’ve got a special lengthy peek at the RPG that I believe is RPG-of-the-year material, Wizardry 8, written by both myself and Flagg. Though numerous sites have previewed the game from the press release demo, we tried to give you…

Wizardry 8 Preview

It’s the old theme that history repeats itself. Once, long ago, was a time when this genre nearly reached a point of being synonymous with computer games themselves. It was a time of prosperity and freedom in the gaming market,…

Wizardry 8 License to Thrill

There are two happenings about this incredible game (so far) today, that deserve mention. One is RPGVault’s 3rd Wizardry 8 Design Log from 2D interface cut & paster, Alex Parlour. Since it’s fairly short I’ll give a proportionate slice here:…

Neocron Goods

One of the level design gurus from Reakktor Media, the peeps responsible for putting out the futuristic virtual-city MMOG Neocron sometime this year, has answered a few questions regarding (what else?) building levels in a Q & A with Neocron…

News from the Official Message Boad

Garret Graham honored the official message board with a short visit to comment on the recent takeover of SSI by UbiSoft. Here is what he had to say: “Sorry for the delay in answering, but we’ve been cut off from…

Question of the Day Update

Today’s Question of the Day reveals current and future plans by the Icewind Dale development team and implies that they are at work on yet another unannounced project. Here’s the question: Is the downloadable dungeon pack idea due to various…

HoW Quiz for you Know-it-alls

RPGPlanet comes at us with another of its RPG quizes, this time focusing on the expansion pack to your favorite dungeon crawl and mine, Heart of Winter. Test your mettle by diving into this 20 Question Quiz.

Heart of Winter Quiz

RPGPlanet comes at us with another of its RPG quizes, this time focusing on the expansion to Icewind Dale, Heart of Winter. Test your mettle by diving into this 20 Question Quiz.

Create Item Skills and Scribe Scroll

Gamer revisits these two topics: A lot of people have been saying that Create Item skills and Scribe Scroll won’t be implemented in the game – but so far I have heard no official word from BioWare…Now I understand it…