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News archive - search criteriaNews listing - 6248 newsposts foundPurgatorio Demo released ( Game news ) Rogue Dao Studios - you probably won't believe it - decides to offer a demo of their anticipated NWN2 mod Purgatorio, which is part of a planned Planescape Trilogy.
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Big Huge RPG Updates ( Game news ) The Ken Rolston led RPG project from Big Huge Games gets a new lease on life thanks to 38 Studios, EA, and questionable taste.
Code-named "Project Mercury," the single-player RPG is being developed by Rise of Nations studio Big Huge Games. (After then-owner THQ threatened to close the studio in 2009, 38 Studios stepped in and bought the Maryland-based developer.) It will be an all-new intellectual property co-created fantasy by comic-book artist Todd McFarlane (Spawn) and author R.A. Salvatore (The DemonWars Saga). Both men helped Schilling found 38 Studios--then called Green Monster Games--in 2006, and respectively serve as art director and "executive creator of worlds" at the Maynard, Massachusetts studio. The game will not be based on any of Salvatore's or MacFarlane's previous work. Spotted at: RPG Watch There are 17 comments on this article. Click here to comment.
Dragon Age Info Service ( Game news ) Dragon Age gets patched.
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DoubleBear Design Update ( N/A ) IronBear Studios are revealing a few more juicy Zombie tidbits.
Since I'm not all that interesting, let's talk about characters for ZRPG. Since the team is rather small, we can't do a lot of characters. It's so small, in fact, that we're only going to do two, a male and a female version (personally, I like to call them Zombob and Zombette). That means, for example, that all male characters will share the same face [About the faces, we are going to have a couple of variations. Perhaps a scarred one, and definitely an old guy one, just like AoD – Oscar]. We're hoping that you won't notice with the camera zoomed out as much as it will be. Luckily, we can still make variations, through clothing, accessories and haircuts [Note: and facial hair and skin tones]. I'd have loved to be able to show you that, but we don't actually have any assets that can be swapped here yet. Expect an update specifically about all that when we've got a fancy and varied assortment of moustaches.
How does that look? Spotted at: ITS There are 2 comments on this article. Click here to comment.
Mass Effect 2 keeps your eye shadow in place all day ( Development info ) No doubt this is inappropriate as a newspost, but I do not have the willpower to pass up something this awesome.
Searching for a new everday look? Here is a must try for one striving for a simple and sexy go between. Charisma+2 model, Leigh-Ann, going to show you how to pull off a makeup look inspired by Miranda from Mass Effect 2. The fact that she has a speech impediment increases the awesomeness exponentially. Enjoy more of Leigh-Ann here. There are 19 comments on this article. Click here to comment.
The Principles of High-Level Writing ( Editorial ) Sometimes I get the impression that writing about gamedesign is way more popular than actually doing gamedesign. Of course I could be wrong. Anyway, Josh Sawyer, working at Codex' favorite developer Obsidian Entertainment, shares some insights with us.
At work, we have a lot of rules for how to write. These range from punctuation (single-spacing after terminal punctuation) to spelling ("all right" vs. "alright") to structural (where a "goodbye" response should be relative to a "start combat" response and where that should be relative to a "friendly" response). Every project has a document (or documents) on the specific guidelines for that project. In spite of all the details, there are certain high-level principles that tend to be common. Okay, maybe it's just in my mind, but here are principles that I believe are important for writing player-driven dialogue in choice-heavy RPGs.
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RPGWatch previews Din's Curse ( Preview ) Another preview of Soldak Entertainments soon to be released Action RPG surfaces, this time at RPGWatch.
Although the game is still in beta, I found it completely stable and didn't experience a single crash. I have some minor complaints – it's easy to miss some of the notifications, the text font could be sharper and the graphics look better zoomed all the way in – but I can't imagine anyone playing that way. Finally, I miss the companions from Depths of Peril, although the multiplayer co-op makes up for this. I tried a quick multiplayer game over our home LAN and it all worked perfectly.
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Gamebanshee previews Mount & Blade Warband ( Preview ) Brother None shares some early impressions.
That means out with the sandbox action-RPG gameplay, and in with battle simulations. I can't help but feel Mount & Blade does both these things at a very high level, but what hooked me in – personally – was that it combined both well, and pushing for that next level or next castle taken was as big a hook as the excellent combat in general. That, specifically, does not carry over in to multiplayer, but that's no reason to get discouraged. Multiplayer is still fun in its own right even if it'll be less appealing to people who – like me – found that the sandbox gameplay is what tipped Mount & Blade from "fun" into "incredibly addictive". But even for us there's material to look foreward to, as the additions promised already look good from the glance given in multiplayer, let alone in its expansions for single player campaigns.
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VD previews Din's Curse ( Preview ) Vault Dweller has been blessed with a preview copy of Soldak Entertainments upcoming Action RPG. He kindly decided to share some impressions.
Basically, the dungeons are no longer static. Things are brewing and shit is piling up, getting awfully close to the fan. If you're told that some guy needs to be rescued, it means that he's fighting mobs of monsters as we speak. He may last awhile or he may not (depends on the difficulty level). If you're told that some monsters are planning a raid, it doesn’t mean that they will be waiting forever and ever for you to show up. It actually does mean that they are planning a raid and unless you drop everything and go knock some sense into them, there will be some raiding and pillaging tonight. Once the current town is saved, you get your reward and can either continue playing at a slower, more traditional pace, or move to the next town with increasingly bigger problems and deeper dungeons.
But is this game fully voiced? Spotted at: ITS There are 11 comments on this article. Click here to comment.
CD Projekt RED loses Artur Ganszyniec ( Company news ) GameBanshee bears word that Artur Ganszyniec, lead story designer on boob inspector sim The Witcher, is no longer a part of CD Projekt RED. From LinkedIn:
Principal Designer Thanks to Andhaira for the tip There are 37 comments on this article. Click here to comment.
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