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BuckGB
July 25, 2011

BioWare Comic-Con Presentation Videos

The BioWare TV website is now hosting a handful of new videos from this past weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, including a 40-minute Star Wars: The Old Republic Q&A session, a 25-minute Star Wars: The Old Republic panel discussion, two hours…

WorstUsernameEver
July 2, 2011

IGN’s Top 100 Modern Video Games

IGN has put together a top 100 of modern video games, where modern means “current generation”. The list is, as any other of its kind, very debatable, but the fair number of titles within the scope of our coverage makes…

BuckGB
June 28, 2011

BioWare Video Interview

Gamereactor continues to upload the video interviews that they recorded during this year’s E3, with this latest eleven-minute clip featuring BioWare founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka talking about Mass Effect 3, the future of the Mass Effect series, how…

WorstUsernameEver
June 27, 2011

Rolling Your Own

Rampant Games’ Jay Barnson writes on character generation on his blog, and why he doesn’t consider it an integral part of the role-playing experience. Here’s a snippet: One character that I’d created but never played ended up getting (loaned) to…

WorstUsernameEver
June 16, 2011

Dragon Age: Asunder Novel Announced

BioWare has just announced on both the official website and their forums a new Dragon Age novel, titled Dragon Age: Asunder, penned by lead writer David Gaider, and published by Tor Books just as the other two franchise’s novels published…

WorstUsernameEver
June 12, 2011

Turn-based vs. Real-time Combat

Video games blogger and CRPG enthusiast CRPG Addict wrote a lengthy blog post on the differences between turn-based combat systems and real-time ones and the respective advantages. It’s an interesting reading, especially for those of us that feel neglected by…

BuckGB
June 6, 2011

What Questions Must Dragon Age III Answer?

Despite the fact that we still have no official confirmation that a third Dragon Age title is in development, Games Abyss rounds up a list of plot-specific details that need to be tidied up when Dragon Age III is finally…

WorstUsernameEver
May 31, 2011

Storytelling in Games, Part One

The editors at IGN have penned the first part of a feature called “Storytelling in Games” where they quiz “some of the biggest name in gaming” about, you guessed it, storytelling in games. The theme of this first part is…

Brother None
May 22, 2011

BioWare Voice Director Interview

The Gaming Liberty offers an interview with veteran voice director Ginny McSwain, who is credited on a score of BioWare titles, including Baldur’s Gate, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II. Retroplayer- Ginny, did…

WorstUsernameEver
May 20, 2011

Dragon Age II and the Decline of the Old-school RPG

Editorials, articles and opinion pieces on Dragon Age II and its significance for the old school of RPG design abound, with IGN being the latest in serving us their opinion. Here’s a sampling: Nowadays, it seems that gaming is experiencing…