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ByVal Hull
OnApril 21, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Classics – Steam Edition Impressions

Following the recent Steam release of SSI’s Gold Box games, we get this PC Gamer article that takes them out for a spin and shares some general impressions. If you’d like to know what to expect from these games, or…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 31, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Now Live on Steam

The Gold Box Classics bundle, originally scheduled for a March 25, 2022 release, is now available on Steam. The bundle consists of several “collections,” each featuring a number of highly-acclaimed Gold Box RPGs, including the Eye of the Beholder trilogy,…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 12, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Coming to Steam

If you wouldn’t mind having a whole heap of Gold Box games in your Steam library, come March 25, 2022 you’ll be able to purchase a number of bundles on Valve’s digital store. These include the Krynn, Ravenloft and Dark…

ByBuckGB
OnApril 1, 2017

Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters is Not Gold

The advancements they made in Curse of the Azure Bonds, player reception to Secret of the Silver Blades, the major drop in sales figures for Pools of Darkness, the team’s foray into sci-fi role-playing with Buck Rogers, their collaboration with…

ByBuckGB
OnJanuary 16, 2017

Gold Box Companion and The All-Seeing Eye Tools for SSI Enthusiasts

At the tail end of Matt Barton’s most recent “Matt Chat” installment, he brings word of two lesser known tools that immediately piqued our interest. The first of these is the Gold Box Companion, a toolset that will go a…

ByBuckGB
OnSeptember 28, 2016

Why the Economy Sucks in the SSI Gold Box Games

In a lengthy editorial, The CRPG Addict provides an in-depth analysis of “why the economy sucks in the SSI Gold Box games”, with a focus on the lack of use for gold and other coinage in the RPG titles, the…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnAugust 20, 2015

Thirteen Gold Box D&D Classics Released on GOG

The Gold Box games have always been one of the few blind spots in GOG’s impressive Dungeons & Dragons catalog of games until today. The folks at the retro-focused digital store have announced the release of 13 D&D-based Gold Box…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnJanuary 12, 2015

Susan Manley Video Interview, Part Four

Matt Barton has published the fourth and last part of his interview with Susan Manley, in which Barton asks questions that focus on three products she worked on that didn’t fit the rest of the interview: Sierra’s Imagination Network, the…

ByBuckGB
OnJanuary 4, 2015

Susan Manley Video Interview, Part Three

The 3DO console, its inception under Trip Hawkins, its ultimate demise, and project management as a whole are the primary topics of conversation in this third installment to Matt Barton’s video interview with industry veteran Susan Manley. Keep in mind…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnDecember 29, 2014

Susan Manley Video Interview, Part Two

Matt Barton has published the second part of his interview with Susan Manley, which covers Manley’s education, the start of her career, her experience producing artwork for SSI’s Dungeons & Dragons titles, and her career at EA, starting from her…