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Val Hull
December 16, 2017

Leonard Boyarsky Interview – Vampire, Diablo, and What’s Next for Obsidian

Leonard Boyarsky, the veteran RPG developer who started at Interplay, co-founded Troika Games, spent a decade at Blizzard Entertainment, and is now working at Obsidian on a mystery-shrouded RPG Project Indiana took some time to talk to PCGamesN about his…

Val Hull
December 8, 2017

Overlooked RPGs That Are Worth Playing Today

Over at PC Gamer you can find this list of overlooked RPGs that includes plenty of JRPGs and games that can be considered RPGs only in a very broad sense, but even so, there are quite a few titles there…

Val Hull
May 20, 2017

PC Gamer’s History of RPGs

Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from way back in 1975. With the sheer scope of the RPG genre, some titles get overlooked, but for the…

Val Hull
May 9, 2017

Richard Cobbett on Unique RPG Settings

Richard Cobbett laments the lack of originality in RPG settings in his latest RPG Scrollbars column on Rock, Paper, Shotgun. In an ‘exception proves the rule’ sort of way, he lists a number of games that do have unique and…

BuckGB
May 1, 2017

Tim Cain on Building a Better RPG

Tim Cain, a veteran developer and one of the founders of Troika Games, has recently delivered a keynote speech at the Reboot Develop conference. He talked about building better RPGs, and in particular, the mistakes RPG developers should strive to…

Val Hull
February 24, 2017

Leonard Boyarsky Talk: A Life in Video Games

Leonard Boyarsky, who worked at Interplay Entertainment, Troika Games, Blizzard Entertainment, and is currently holding a position of Creative Director at Obsidian Entertainment, gave a talk at SINFO 24, a Tech conference in Portugal. Boyarsky’s segment, called A Life in…

BuckGB
January 22, 2017

Five Expansive CRPGs to Bide Your Time Until Torment: Tides of Numenera

After calling out that Planescape: Torment should be your first pick for PC-based adventures prior to diving into inXile’s Torment: Tides of Numenera next month, GameSkinny takes this even further by profiling five other “expansive” CRPGs that would fit the…

Val Hull
January 1, 2017

PC Gamer’s Best RPGs of All Time 2016 Edition

People love “best of” lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The criteria are nebulous at best, and the genre itself doesn’t do them any favors, but this is…

GPur
December 20, 2016

Choice in Gameplay: A Retrospective

The development of choice in RPGs is the subject of a long post over at Gamasutra, which charts a path from the ‘80s to present day. A vast cornucopia of games are examined in the opinion piece, which takes us…