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Val Hull
September 7, 2017

Josh Sawyer Interview and Podcast

If you ever wanted to know more about Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer and his career than some might consider reasonable, this USgamer feature should be right up your alley. It includes a 70 minute long podcast where the veteran RPG…

Val Hull
August 27, 2017

Interplay’s Scott Bennie on RPG Writing

You may not know who Scott Bennie is, but there’s a good chance you’ve read or played something he was involved in, be it various pen and paper RPGs, Interplay titles such as Fallout and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, or…

BuckGB
August 9, 2017

Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Board Game Announced

For those of you who haven’t been able to get enough of the post-apocalyptic landscape in electronic format, you’ll soon be able to migrate to a household table for more Fallout goodness with Fantasy Flight Games’ Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Board…

Val Hull
June 22, 2017

Brian Fargo on IGN Unfiltered, Part 2

The second part of Brian Fargo’s IGN Unfiltered interview is now live. The veteran developer talks about the good old days, the origins of Black Isle Studios, and his experiences working with Nintendo and Blizzard, among other things. Check it…

Val Hull
June 1, 2017

Bethesda RPGs Arrive on GOG

Three classic Bethesda RPGs have finally made their way to GOG: Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I don’t believe these games require any introduction, but regardless, here’s a short refresher from the press release…

BuckGB
May 29, 2017

The Importance of Crafting Interesting NPCs

Using character examples from a variety of RPG series, including Fallout, Dragon Age, The Witcher, and The Elder Scrolls, one of GameInformer’s editors has authored a new “RPG Grind Time” feature about “the importance of crafting interesting NPCs”. The article…

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 16, 2017

Richard Cobbett on Video Game-Themed Food

If you’re in a mood for some light-hearted riffing on the easy target of culinary video game tie-ins, Richard Cobbett’s latest RPG Scrollbars column does exactly that. So, if you want to read a bit about World of Warcraft or Heartstone…

BuckGB
May 6, 2017

Fallout: A Postmortem GDC Presentation

The one and only Tim Cain did a presentation at the 2012 Game Developers Conference about the three-year development cycle on the original Fallout (starting in 1994), covering such topics as their initial plans to base it on the GURPS…

Val Hull
May 5, 2017

IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time, Part 4

Now we’re getting to the good stuff. The 4th part of IGN’s top RPG list includes entries 21-40, with a fair share of must-have titles for such a list among them. Some examples: Fallout – 38 Post-apocalyptic imagery is somewhat…