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ByVal Hull
OnMay 31, 2018

Does RPG Mean What it Did a Decade Ago?

Who are we? Why are we here? What can change the nature of a man? What is an RPG? All these questions have stumped scholars for millenia and yet they still don’t have definitive answers. At this point if someone…

ByVal Hull
OnApril 3, 2018

The Best and Worst In-game Books and Codexes

While not focusing exclusively on RPGs, this PC Gamer article takes a good look at a number of games with books and codexes in them and tries to figure out what works and what doesn’t when one tries to cram…

ByBuckGB
OnApril 1, 2018

The Five Best Years in PC Gaming History

PC Gamer has listed what they feel are the “top 5” best years for PC gaming, and while I don’t think they go back far enough (1985 was a crazy good year for adventure and RPG fans, in particular), the…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 23, 2018

CD Projekt 2017 Financial Results, Cyberpunk 2077 Tidbits

2017 was another successful year for the CD Projekt Group, allowing the Polish company to generate 463 million PLN in sales revenues and 200 million PLN in net profit. In case you’re interested in additional financial details, you can check…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 12, 2018

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Curious Case of Saviour Schnapps

As far as I’m concerned, there is no excuse for not having a proper saving system in your game. Multiple quick save slots, rotating autosaves, and manual saves on top of that is what every self-respecting game should have in…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 27, 2018

Good Side Quest Design – Rules and Examples

Side quests are a pretty important part of roleplaying games. Depending on how well they’re designed, side quests can make any game memorable or boring. But how does one create the former and not the latter? Gamasutra reached out to…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 4, 2018

The Best Low-stakes RPG Quests

RPGs are not always about saving the world or making tough decisions with long-reaching implications. Sometimes they’re simply about getting blackout drunk and then dealing with the consequences, or helping a tree get its revenge on a long-dead lumberjack. And…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 3, 2018

The History of RPG Magic

Magic, in one way or another, is a staple of most RPGs and as a result it can be all too easy to forget that magic is not just an alternative to bows when it comes to dealing ranged damage,…

ByBuckGB
OnJanuary 11, 2018

The Witcher 3 Outgrossed Some of 2017’s Biggest Games

That title is followed up by a provocative and highly accurate “because it’s just that good” in this new editorial on PC Gamer, where they go on to praise CD Projekt’s RED’s CRPG for “outselling almost everything else on Steam”…

ByBuckGB
OnJanuary 7, 2018

GB Feature: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Content Overload

Standing as one of the largest role-playing games we’ve ever covered here on GameBanshee, our new The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt subsite is jam-packed with fully annotated walkthroughs for the original game, the Hearts of Stone expansion, and the Blood…