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New Interview!

There is a new interview hosting Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka on ‘taking Dungeons & Dragons to a new level with Neverwinter Nights’. Check it out here! Here is a snipit: “Zeschuk: Yeah. It was during Baldur’s Gate’s development that…

Sorcerer GUI

Gamer is worried about the sorcerer’s GUI: (graphical user interface) I’m a little concerned about the sorcerer’s GUI, mostly because of a lack of the pause function. Sorcerers know fewer spells, but they can cast more per day, can use…

Ideas…

Gamer has some ideas contest ideas: I was wondering if it might be a more egalitarian and profitable idea if BioWare were to set up a contest to write the best module using the NWN toolset and involving the BioWare…

The Walkthrough Nears Completion

I’ve posted up several more locations to the walkthrough. Only the Fortress of Regrets and a couple of others remain, so stay tuned. Updated Pages: Walkthrough (includes the Outlands, Baator, Pillar of Skulls, Curst Gone, Carceri, and Curst Administration locations)

Dungeon Siege Preview

IGN PC has posted up a preview of the upcoming RPG Dungeon Siege from Gas Powered Games. The preview is very positive and gives a good rundown of DS’s features. Here’s a snippet: The strength of the system lays in…

Fanstock Pictures

The Siege Works has posted up a set of 12 new pictures taken by Guttyr during his time up at Fanstock. The pictures include many different shots of Chris Taylor and others from the GPG development team. Head on over…

HoW Downloadable Expansion Interview

The Heart of Winter downloadable expansion pack is just around the corner, and Planet Baldur’s Gate was able to ask some questions of Steve Bokkes, designer for both IWD and HoW, about where the idea came from, who’s working on…

Dungeons & Dragons Interview #3

Computer Games Online has posted their third Dungeons & Dragons interview, this time with Jonathan Tweet, creator of the 3rd Edition ruleset. Here’s a taste: What are the some of the differences between the 3rd Edition and previous versions of…

Horizons Dev Chat

Artifact Entertainment is having a development chat for their upcoming MMORPG Horizons: Empires of Istaria this evening. If you’d like to get answers to your Horizons questions, this is the place to be. Here’s the scoop: Date: Wednesday, May 9thTime:…

Roguelike Games @ RPGDot

RPGDot has a new feature to bring the genre of roguelike games into the spotlight. They’ve posted an article entitled “Introducing the Roguelike genre”, which is a short history of the genre. Here’s a small excerpt: Roguelike games are turn…