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BuckGB
May 1, 2017

Tim Cain on Building a Better RPG

Tim Cain, a veteran developer and one of the founders of Troika Games, has recently delivered a keynote speech at the Reboot Develop conference. He talked about building better RPGs, and in particular, the mistakes RPG developers should strive to…

Val Hull
April 10, 2017

CRPG Book Preview #5

The work on Felipe Pepe’s CRPG Book, an ambitious project that aims to document the history of the CRPG genre, is progressing. A testament to that is the recent release of the final preview version of the book. It has…

Val Hull
March 24, 2017

Brian Fargo to Retire After Wasteland 3 Releases

It’s a bit difficult to internalize but Brian Fargo’s career in gaming will have spanned 38 years in 2019, when Wasteland 3 is supposed to come out. Talking to Eurogamer, Fargo announced that the third installment of the post-apocalyptic RPG…

Val Hull
February 24, 2017

Leonard Boyarsky Talk: A Life in Video Games

Leonard Boyarsky, who worked at Interplay Entertainment, Troika Games, Blizzard Entertainment, and is currently holding a position of Creative Director at Obsidian Entertainment, gave a talk at SINFO 24, a Tech conference in Portugal. Boyarsky’s segment, called A Life in…

Val Hull
February 4, 2017

Chris Avellone Livestream Interview

The one and only Chris Avellone participated in a livestreamed interview with Colm Larkin, the creator of Guild of Dungeoneering from The Irish Game Makers Association. They chatted for about an hour. The trip down the memory lane starts with…

Val Hull
February 1, 2017

Feargus Urquhart Video Interview

Feargus Urquhart recently appeared on IGN Unfiltered, IGN’s monthly interview show. It ran for a little over an hour, during which the prolific RPG developer, and the current CEO of Obsidian Entertainment, talked shop and touched on a variety of…

Val Hull
January 24, 2017

Richard Cobbett’s RPG Scrollbars: FPS Quest For Glory, RPG Inventories

Richard Cobbett’s Rock, Paper, Shotgun column boasts a couple of new entries. First one, titled A Heretical Quest For Glory, describes the moderately successful attempts of porting the adventure/RPG hybrid Quest For Glory IV into Hexen’s first person shooter engine.…

GPur
December 20, 2016

Choice in Gameplay: A Retrospective

The development of choice in RPGs is the subject of a long post over at Gamasutra, which charts a path from the ‘80s to present day. A vast cornucopia of games are examined in the opinion piece, which takes us…

GPur
December 19, 2016

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WorstUsernameEver
December 12, 2016

Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart on the Future of RPGs

PC Gamer has published a short but dense interview on the state and future of the role-playing game genre with Feargus Urquhart, the CEO of Obsidian Entertainment. In the interview, Urquhart talks about the games that interested him from the…