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BuckGB
December 9, 2012

Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 Multiplayer Servers Taken Offline

Back in August of this year, a San Francisco-based “developer and publisher of freemium games” called Glu Mobile purchased the GameSpy multiplayer technologies from IGN for $2.7 million. And while such an acquisition isn’t too concerning in and of itself, this new…

WorstUsernameEver
December 3, 2012

Ex-Obsidian Kevin D. Saunders Joins inXile as Project Director

Thanks to a reply to an anonymous question on his Formspring account, we learn that Kevin Saunders, an industry veteran who among other things worked at Obsidian on Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansions, has joined inXile permanently, and will…

WorstUsernameEver
November 5, 2012

J.E. Sawyer Video Interview

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat video series is an interview with Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer discussing his pre-Fallout: New Vegas work, including his start in the industry, the games that most influenced him, the canceled Baldur’s Gate…

WorstUsernameEver
November 1, 2012

Kevin D. Saunders Social Interview

Ex-Obsidian designer Kevin D. Saunders is the latest to join the Q&A-driven social network Formspring, following J.E. Sawyer and George Ziets among others, and has already started answering questions on his past work. Here’s on Neverwinter Nights 2’s expansion Mask…

WorstUsernameEver
October 6, 2012

Chris Avellone Interview

IndieRPGs.com is offering an interview with RPG veteran Chris Avellone, currently busy at work on inXile’s Wasteland 2 and Obsidians’ Project Eternity, which focuses mostly on his work on Planescape: Torment. Here’s a couple of snippets: Could you elaborate on…

WorstUsernameEver
June 22, 2012

J.E. Sawyer Interview

As part of their ongoing “Knights of the Roleplaying Table” interview series, the folks at GameStar.ru have asked some general RPG design-related questions to Obsidian’s J.E. Sawyer, whose notable work includes Icewind Dale II, Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New…

WorstUsernameEver
April 18, 2012

Chris Avellone Interview

Why he’s excited to work on Wasteland 2, Obsidian’s past hurdles with publishers and project cancellations, the franchises he’d like to work on, and the future of Obsidian Entertainment are only some of the subjects that have been tackled by…

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April 15, 2012

George Ziets Social Interview

After recently leaving Obsidian Entertainment, George Ziets, creative director on Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer and Dungeon Siege III, with previous experiences at both Turbine and ZeniMax Online, has opened an account on Formspring, a Q&A-driven social network.…

BuckGB
March 12, 2012

Icewind Dale NWN2 Total Remake Mod Released

In what has to be the most ambitious mod I’ve come across for awhile, this Neverwinter Nights 2 modification is a total remake of Black Isle’s original Icewind Dale in the NWN2 engine. In addition to sporting the entire campaign…

WorstUsernameEver
January 25, 2012

Chris Avellone Interview

I can imagine among the things present in Chris Avellone’s daily routine is “reply to yet another interviewer’s questions” at least judging by the amount of them he gives, with the latest coming from CelebritySC. In the interview Chris tackles…