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October 12, 2011

Ex-Troika and Carbine Studios Tim Cain Joins Obsidian Entertainment

Former Interplay, Troika and Carbine Studios designer and programmer Timothy Cain, which most of you probably know for his seminal work on titles such as Fallout and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura has joined the team at Obsidian Entertainment.…

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September 16, 2011

Single-Player RPGs Do It Better When…

Aside from working on the very promising indie RPG Frayed Knights, Jay “Rampant Coyote” Barnson is probably familiar to some of our readers for writing his opinions on CRPGs and the gaming industry fairly often, and he has done so…

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August 19, 2011

Fallout: New Vegas Interview

Will Ooi has been publishing a fair number of interviews lately, and after talking with Chris Avellone twice, he had the time to have a Q&A session with Bethesda senior producer Jason Bergman, available both on his blog and on…

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August 17, 2011

Obsidian’s Five Hard Lessons of RPG Design

Obsidian’s J.E. Sawyer – project director on Fallout: New Vegas among other things – recently discussed the “challenges at the RPG industry has faced in adapting from its pen and paper roots” during a talk at GDC Europe, on which…

BuckGB
August 9, 2011

Armchair Arcade’s Top Ten CRPGs

We haven’t covered a “top ten” list of role-playing games for quite some time now, so I thought I’d send you over to this list on Armchair Arcade where CRPG enthusiast Matt Barton actually has decades of experience to back…

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August 8, 2011

Picking Favorites

Lists are one of those things we’ll never run out of anytime soon, and Matt Barton, of Matt Chat fame, has put online his Top Ten CRPGs which includes classics like Might & Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, Planescape:…

BuckGB
July 31, 2011

Fallout 5: What CVG Wants to See

I don’t think anyone doubts that there will be another installment to the popular Fallout franchise, and that has unsurprisingly led to CVG breaking down the elements they’d like to see added and tweaked in the next entry. Was Fallout:…

BuckGB
July 24, 2011

RPG Pillars: 20 Games That Defined Role-Playing Games

Veteran RPG enthusiasts will no doubt remember playing through a majority of the video games listed in GamePro’s “RPG Pillars: 20 Games That Defined Role-Playing Games” feature, which includes such influential classics as Pool of Radiance, Dungeon Master, Wizardry: Proving…

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July 3, 2011

How to Survive the Fallout Apocalypse

1UP has put together an article in which they wonder how accurate the portrayal of a post-nuclear wasteland is in the Fallout series – minus the super mutants and deathclaws, we assume – with the help of Dr. Curtis Miyamoto,…

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May 21, 2011

Scott Everts Interview

The latest developer interview on the Bethesda Blog is with Obsidian’s Scott Everts, a veteran with an impressive pedigree whose last project so far has been New Vegas’ DLC. Here’s an excerpt: You’ve gone from being a Level Designer on…