Gaming News

Remembering Ultima 1

An FYI announcement for your anticipatory pleasure: a crack team of of hard working individuals is putting together a piece of freeware, a game that’s actually a remake of Richard Garriot’s Ultima 1! Trying out the engine demo myself I…

A Brief History of the MUD

Before EQ…. To those living in the world of EQ the question of what came before the world of Norrath could very well be answered with apathy. Despite that, try and take some in-between-camping time this week to look at…

Ten Dangerously Addictive Demos

Gamespy did us all a favor and posted their 10 favorite demos of the year… er, last year. You get the description and the download link, so if you’re looking for something new, check to see if one of them…

GameBanshee Pool of Radiance Update

Our Pool of Radiance subsite is being overhauled, our goal being when the game comes out to have as good a PoR page as our BGII page. It’s gonna be tough, but we think we’ll be up to the task.…

Dungeon Siege Interview

Stomped has conducted an interview with Chris Taylor, the founder of Gas Powered Games, about their plans for the new year and their upcoming game Dungeon Siege. Here’s a bit of what they had to say: Stomped: What can we…

New Baldur’s Gate Site

Legacy Headquarters dropped us an email letting us know that they have opened up a new site covering the Baldur’s Gate series. This new site adds to their growing number of “Legacy” sites covering other games, such as Diablo and…

Baldur’s Gate Patch

No, not Shadows of Amn. I read over at RPGPlanet that a new patch for the original Baldur’s Gate has finally been released to fix the multiplayer problems with DirectX 7 and 8. You can download the new patches over…

The New Year

I apologize for the lack of news the last couple of days. I’ve been out of town for a weekend of insanity. Now that the debauchery is over, things will return to normal. I hope you all enjoyed your New…

Greatest Games of 2001

Daily Radar has once again added to their “Greatest Games of 2001” article. Heading off day 3 is none other than the game many of us at GameBanshee are waiting for, Shadowbane. Here’s some clippage of a Q&A with James…

Horizons Interview

Horizons Vault has conducted an interview with Scott Blinn, the producer of Horizons: Empires of Istaria. Here’s a quick snippit: So how does it feel to be the producer of HORIZONS? Scott: Busy! I knew going into this I would…