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The new owners of SSI, and thus Pool of Radiance have published a press statement concerning the acquisition of SSI from Gores Technology Group. Go straight to the press statement.

GameBanshee viewers, I’ve posted up an icon on the righthand side of your screen that is linked to Amazon.com’s Honor System. What this service does is allow you to donate small amounts of money to GameBanshee in order to help…

Today’s question was actually answered by one of the HoW designers, Josh Sawyer, but it provides some good insight into how the developers decided on the plot scheme for the expansion. Many of the intricate stories presented in Icewind Dale…

Just a couple more pieces of equipment… Updated Pages: Cloaks (includes the Cloak of Invisibility), Robes (includes the Mage Robe of Fire Resistance)

Just after we published our Detailed Wiz 8 Preview, as mentioned in the newsblurb below, RPGDot follows up with a Press Release Review of Wizardry 8 of their own. While it sports much less verbiage, it’s a good read. Here’s…

I realize that I haven’t been able to post new questions every days for the last week or so. To make up for this we have a question that deals with the recent takeover of SSI by UbiSoft. Check out…

We’ve got a special lengthy peek at the RPG that I believe is RPG-of-the-year material, Wizardry 8, written by both myself and Flagg. Though numerous sites have previewed the game from the press release demo, we tried to give you…

It’s the old theme that history repeats itself. Once, long ago, was a time when this genre nearly reached a point of being synonymous with computer games themselves. It was a time of prosperity and freedom in the gaming market,…

There are two happenings about this incredible game (so far) today, that deserve mention. One is RPGVault’s 3rd Wizardry 8 Design Log from 2D interface cut & paster, Alex Parlour. Since it’s fairly short I’ll give a proportionate slice here:…

One of the level design gurus from Reakktor Media, the peeps responsible for putting out the futuristic virtual-city MMOG Neocron sometime this year, has answered a few questions regarding (what else?) building levels in a Q & A with Neocron…