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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Announced

Just a few days after squelching the rumors about them making a new Planescape game, the folks at Beamdog come out with a new unexpected announcement – they’re currently working on an Enhanced Edition of BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights. This was…

The Bard’s Tale IV Visual Progress Update

Over on Twitter, Brian Fargo shared a new screenshot that showcases the visual progress of The Bard’s Tale IV. And while not exactly much, it’s at least something, considering the previous Kickstarter update for the game was back in early September.…

Path of Exile New Boss Fight and Item Preview

The recent announcement of the upcoming War for the Atlas expansion for Path of Exile revealed a lot of new encounters and items, and now we get to see and read a bit more about a couple of those. First,…

Dauntless Upcoming Progression Changes Detailed

Phoenix Labs, the developers of Dauntless, a Monster Hunter-like action-RPG currently in Early Access, are moving away from frequent stability updates and are instead focusing their attention on the major Sharpen Your Skills update that should go live in December.…

On the Secret Smallness of Skyrim

This Eurogamer article talks about how open-world games, and Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skirym in particular, through their clever use of geometry, level design, and atmosphere manage to seem much larger than they actually are. There are also a…

BattleTech Previews

Four more hands-on previews of Harebrained Schemes’ Kickstarter-funded strategy/RPG BattleTech have reached the web, courtesy of the recent press tour that the studio embarked on. By the sounds of it, the game is shaping up to easily make its targeted…

Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous Update #29

Roughly two and a half months after the previous update for the old-school RPG Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous has gone up, we finally get a new one. And if you were worried that the prolonged silence was an indicator…

Remembering Mass Effect Ten Years On

Over at PC Gamer, the prolific RPG scholar Richard Cobbett looks back at BioWare’s Mass Effect series and tries to analyze what worked there and what didn’t, ultimately coming to a conclusion that even for all its flaws, Mass Effect…