Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura

Arcanum Contest

Khabal Gaming is sponsoring a contest where you can win one of five copies of Arcanum or limited edition cloth maps. To enter, you are required to provide some demographic information and then answer questions from their recent preview of…

Arcanum Creature Update

Sierra’s official Arcanum website has been updated with a new beastie for their Creature Compendium, the Krag Berserker.

Arcanum Preview

The game that’s due out in a month and a half, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, has been previewed over at GameStats. Here’s a snippet: Arcanum is an absolutely massive game, and as such the world map is suitably…

Arcanum Problems

There’s an interesting article over on Terra Arcanum that describes a growing problem for Sierra’s upcoming Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. As most of you already know, the game has been pushed back to a September release date in…

Arcanum Done!

According to VoodooExtreme’s recent short Q&A with Troika’s Leonard Boyarski, the 19th century-styled techno-magick RPG Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura is now done. Believe it or not they only had 12 people working on the game at its height……

E3 2001: The RPGs

E3 isn’t the biggest computer-oriented convention in the world, but for PC gamers, it might as well be. All the major game producers are there, each May, in force, along with their development teams. Announced products are placed on display…

Arcanum Preview

An Arcanum preview has gone up over at BlueSmoke, bringing to light aspects of the game such as the storyline, character creation, gameplay, and more. Here’s an excerpt: Don’t be struck by the seemingly complex character editor though, for it…

Arcanum Music Interview

RPGDot has posted an interview with Ben Houge, Sierra’s in-house composer for their upcoming RPG Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura. Here’s a taste: RPGDot: What is your favourite project so far and why? Ben Houge: Arcanum has probably been…

Arcanum Demo Review

The techno-colonial-holocaustic RPG with character depth to spare, Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obsura is the type of game where the graphics probably won’t amaze, but it has the capacity to make up for that with its complexity and story.…

Arcanum Demo Dollop

Not quite the smallish dollop you were hoping for, the futuristic yet holocaustic RPG in the works, Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura weighs in at… nah, I better not say here, it might freak some people out. Just go…