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ByVal Hull
OnOctober 1, 2017

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Creation Club’s Survival Mode Preview

Bethesda’s Creation Club has been live in Fallout 4 for a while now, and its Skyrim counterpart is now available on Steam for beta testing. And if you opt into this beta test, you’ll be able to try one of the…

ByVal Hull
OnSeptember 4, 2017

The Elder Scrolls V: Skirym Nintendo Switch Gameplay Video

A couple of IGN folks have managed to play some Skyrim on Nintendo Switch during this year’s PAX West. And since by now, re-releasing Skyrim has become a time-honored tradition for Bethesda, and they’ve gotten pretty good at it, the…

ByVal Hull
OnAugust 29, 2017

Fallout 4 Creation Club Live

The infamous Horse Armor rears its equine head once again and neighs mockingly, as Bethesda’s latest attempt at monetizing mods, Creation Club, goes live in Fallout 4, with its Skyrim counterpart launching next month. What exactly is this Creation Club,…

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 20, 2017

Richard Cobbett on Shared Universes

Richard Cobbett spends the majority of his latest RPG Scrollbars column talking about all the times video games, and RPGs in particular, made neat little references to one another, and how in this day and age of shared universes, this…

ByVal Hull
OnJune 12, 2017

Bethesda at E3: Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls

Bethesda’s E3 event announced a bunch of new stuff for some of the titles we cover here at GameBanshee. In order to avoid flooding the front page, I thought it would be best to bundle all The Elder Scrolls and…

ByVal Hull
OnJune 6, 2017

Richard Cobbett on Video Game Languages

In his latest RPG Scrollbars column on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Richard Cobbett talks about the so-called Conlangs, or constructed languages, and their use in games. He mentions various techniques used to create these languages, lists a number of examples from…

ByBuckGB
OnMay 29, 2017

The Importance of Crafting Interesting NPCs

Using character examples from a variety of RPG series, including Fallout, Dragon Age, The Witcher, and The Elder Scrolls, one of GameInformer’s editors has authored a new “RPG Grind Time” feature about “the importance of crafting interesting NPCs”. The article…

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 5, 2017

IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time, Part 4

Now we’re getting to the good stuff. The 4th part of IGN’s top RPG list includes entries 21-40, with a fair share of must-have titles for such a list among them. Some examples: Fallout – 38 Post-apocalyptic imagery is somewhat…