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ByVal Hull
OnJuly 21, 2017

Chris Avellone Interview

Ustatkowany Gracz, or The Settled Down Gamer, a Polish website, has managed to get some alone time with Chris Avellone and ask him about a variety of gaming-related topics, like his thoughts on video game translations, his perceived disdain for…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 15, 2017

Should You Play Torment: Tides of Numenera?

A couple of PCGamesN editors have recently sat down to discuss InXile’s Torment: Tides of Numenera and that led them to a lengthy conversation about a bunch of recent and soon-to-be-released CRPGs. You should check out the article if you’re…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 5, 2017

Pillars of Eternity: The White March Review, Real Time with Pause Retrospective

Writing Pillars of Eternity reviews must have become an in-joke on RPG Codex by now. The latest one, however, goes above and beyond a mere re-review of the game with The White March expansions in mind. Apart from the review…

ByVal Hull
OnJune 24, 2017

PC Gamer’s Favorite Sidequests

A new PC Gamer feature lists their favorite sidequests, and while it is far from comprehensive and mostly covers quests from third- and first-person action RPGs, it does feature quests from Baldur’s Gate II, Pillars of Eternity, The Witcher 3,…

ByVal Hull
OnJune 21, 2017

Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition Coming to Consoles This August

A Complete Edition of Pillars of Eternity has been announced, and while it includes both parts of The White March expansion, it’s currently only slated to be released on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 (on August 29th, 2017). As you…

ByVal Hull
OnJune 15, 2017

Jeff Vogel on Pillars of Eternity’s Overly Verbose Character Creation

Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel continues to fight the good fight against the overly verbose video games by writing overly verbose blog posts. And even if, by his own admission, his case study of Pillars of Eternity is way too long…

ByVal Hull
OnMay 23, 2017

Is Being Evil in RPGs Fun?

Richard Cobbett, in his RPG Scrollbars column on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, ponders whether it is fun to be evil in RPGs. His ultimate conclusion is that no, it isn’t. Not when being evil is the only thing you can be.…

ByVal Hull
OnMay 18, 2017

Does Your Video Game Have Too Many Words?

On his personal blog, Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software says what we’ve all probably been thinking. That is – video games are becoming too verbose for their own good. He lists examples and observations, as well as his own personal…

ByVal Hull
OnMay 16, 2017

Why didn’t Tyranny Sell? PDXCON Report

Several of the Paradox Interactive’s executives have spoken during the recent PDXCON about their collaboration with Obsidian. Thanks to PCGamesN we have an abridged version that fills us in on the details. Tyranny’s subpar sales were the main topic. They…

ByVal Hull
OnMay 15, 2017

A Look at Video Game Crowdfunding

An editorial on Eurogamer takes a look at the ins and outs of crowdfunding now that it’s left the honeymoon phase. The article recalls how it all began, describes the current state of crowdfunding, and wonders where it can all…