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Question of the Day Update

Another day, another question… this time addressing the issue of certain features not getting implemented into Heart of Winter: GameBanshee: How did the development team go about deciding exactly which features would be implemented into Heart of Winter? For example,…

Fallout Tactics Goes Gold

I received an official press release from Interplay today stating that Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel has officially went gold. Here’s the full page release: 14 Degrees East, a division of Interplay Entertainment Corp., proudly announced today that the highly…

Development Board

With the new update to the official site, there are bound to be questions. Luckily, Matt Firor dropped by the official dev boards to provide some answers: Matt: Hmmm. That is a web page error — the Friar is indeed…

Official DAoC Site Updated

Mythic’s official DAoC website has streamlined the Briton starting class and guilds to make them a little easier to grasp, and to ensure that each starting class has at least two guild options open to them. Now, there are five…

Coverage on the Black & White Experience

GameSpot, the e-mag with the most consistently full and well-done features, presents another of the game that most of the gaming world is putting aside their money to spend on, Black & White. It comes in three parts, each well…

Atriarch Dev Update Dope

The chieftess (yes, chieftess) of the alien-inhabited MMORPG with poly’s to spare, World Fusion’s Atriarch, Serafina Pechan, gives an engrossing account (I’m serious) to GameSpy in a dev. diary of where the team is on the development of the game.…

Character Variation: Colors

Gamer asks how many colors will be avaliable: …I was just wondering how many colors (for our characters) will BioWare be supplying us with? Will we get a limited amount of swatch’s like we did in BG? The color selections…

Scalable Encounters – Can We Make Our Own?

Gamer asks about easily creating ‘scalable encounters’: Simple question – I understand that scalable encounters will be supported in the story that ships with NWN – but will their be support for easily creating scalable encounters in our own modules/worlds?…

More On The Vault

Gamer asks about transfering characters between the vault / other modules: Will it be possible to download single player modules, or use the modules that ship with the game, and play online alone, while still maintaining our characters in the…

XML An Option?

Gamer asks about implementing XML: Are the developers considering using an XML format to describe the various entities (PC/NPCs, areas, items, scripts, what have you) that can be produced by the toolset? Using XML, which is a human readable, (platform…