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Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

BuckGB
November 11, 2009

BioWare’s Other Half Hit With Layoffs

Remember when EA purchased BioWare/Pandemic just over two years ago and there was much happiness and excitement surrounding the acquisition? Something tells me the joy has since been replaced with something else, at least on the Pandemic side of things.…

BuckGB
November 7, 2009

Greg Zeschuk Video Interview

1UP’s GameVideos service is hosting an interesting three-part video interview with BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk. The series spans a total of 33 minutes worth of discussion about Dragon Age: Origins, the company’s history, their previous RPGs, and a whole lot…

BuckGB
November 4, 2009

Eight BioWare Moments That Shocked Us

Apparently BioWare didn’t even exist prior to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, because none of the company’s eight most “shocking” moments cited by GameDaily go back any farther than 2003. Jade Empire: That little girl’s got bite! As…

BuckGB
October 26, 2009

Black Isle RPGs to be Re-released on October 30th

According to this listing on Amazon UK, new boxed versions of Baldur’s Gate (+ ToSC), Baldur’s Gate II (+ ToB), Icewind Dale (+ HoW), Icewind Dale II, and Planescape: Torment are due for release on October 30th. There doesn’t appear…

BuckGB
October 4, 2009

The History of BioWare

Dutch website GameCloud has published an interesting article that briefly covers the history of BioWare and the games they’ve developed over the years. Several pictures complement the article, though English speakers will have to make use of this Google translation…

BuckGB
September 30, 2009

Ten RPGs You Might Have Missed, But Shouldn’t Have

The editors at Elder Geek are worried that we may have missed some solid role-playing games over the past decade or so, and have taken it upon themselves to round up the best of the underdogs. Well, if you can…

BuckGB
September 15, 2009

Consider, BioWare, The Non-Epic RPG

Kotaku is tired of saving the world in every BioWare-developed RPG, so they grilled co-founder Greg Zeschuk during PAX about why all of their games seem so formulaic. When Zeschuk and I spoke a couple of weeks ago at the…

BuckGB
September 10, 2009

Ray Muzyka Video Interview

GameTrailers has slapped up a six-and-a-half minute interview with BioWare’s Ray Muzyka, in which the doctor-turned-developer talks about his favorite RPGs, gameplay-driven narrative, and much more. The video goes crazy at the 2:00 mark, but the audio is fine throughout.

BuckGB
August 20, 2009

Taking a Tablet PC to Retro Role-Playing Nirvana

After stumbling upon the fan-made high resolution mods for the Infinity Engine series and early Fallout titles, Ars Technica tells us just how entertaining these role-playing games can be on a modern tablet PC. Like many thirty-something gamers, I don’t…

BuckGB
August 14, 2009

Playing Favorites: BioWare’s Ray Muzyka

BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka has conjured up a list of his ten favorite video games for IndustryGamers’ latest “Playing Favorites” feature. BioShock (#10), World of Warcraft (#), Ultima IV (#4), Wasteland/Fallout (tied for #3), Wizardry I (#2), and System Shock…