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Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal Interview

The following interview was part of a short Q&A series we conducted with Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal designer James Ohlen back in 2001.  It’s been compiled and tidied up for easier reading: GB: What are your plans for…

Diablo II Expansion Screenshots

Today, Blizzard posted up two new 800×600 screenshots of the upcoming expansion for Diablo II, Lord of Destruction. The two screenshots include a screenshot of Siege Beasts and Reanimated Horde and a screenshot of a Pul Rune, a new type…

Small Update

Thanks to one of our viewers pointing out that we didn’t have the building in Kuldahar marked where you start the HoW expansion, I have went and updated our Kuldahar location in the IWD walkthrough. Updated Pages: IWD Walkthrough (includes…

High-Tech Games

GameSpot has posted up a great article called “High-Tech Games: Pushing the Envelope in 2001 and Beyond” [archive.org backup]. The article talks about how advanced games are getting and compares many of the contenders that will be showing up this…

Al-Qadim: Genie’s Curse Quiz

RPGPlanet has posted up yet another RPG quiz, this time based upon the old CRPG Al-Qadim: Genie’s Curse. If you played some of the old AD&D games years ago, you were bound to have tried this one. If so, head…

Riverwind’s Guide Updated

Riverwind has submitted a new version of his “Guide to Character Classes”. This version is much, much larger and breaks down virtually every class available in BG2, including multi-class possibilities. I recommend downloading this document if you’re looking to build…

NPC Addition

After many, many requests to do so, I have went through every NPC and added their full starting stats via a link. Curious what proficiencies Korgan starts with? Want to know what Viconia’s resistances are? Now you can find out…

New Strategy

I’ve posted up another “Perfect Party” strategy in our Character Creation strategies section. Updated Pages: Strategy Guides (includes a Character Creation strategy)

Scripting Questions:

Gamer addresses his question to Mark Brockington: Hopefully you will include at least a mechanism to write the current time (to the millisecond?) to the log files. Perhaps also a current “free memory” if available. This will allow us to…

Character Concerns

Gamer responds to the new character creation challenge: At least in the NWN Community? Well here’s your chance, a chance to have a NPC that you created actually appear in the official NWN game! Note that entries shouldn’t be sent…