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BuckGB
April 21, 2001

TORN Developer Diary

RPGVault has posted a developer diary by the designer of Black Isle’s TORN, Dave Maldonado. Here’s a snippet: Those who’ve read the various TORN previews, interviews, and/or perused the message boards likely know that the idea behind it is to…

BuckGB
April 21, 2001

Arcanum Delayed

I read over at RPGDot that Troika Games’ Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura has been delayed in the US until September. Here’s the word from their publisher, Sierra: Yesterday morning the Arcanum team here at Sierra made a decision…

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

Equipment Stuff

This is actually Icewind Dale news, but it is something I’d like to make everyone aware of since I will be altering the equipment section here in the BG2 area as I have done in the IWD area tonight. First,…

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

Equipment Renovation

I received a whole bunch of item locations from one of our devoted viewers, so I took the time tonight to go through the Icewind Dale equipment list and renovate it a bit. Lots of new items have been added…

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

Elven Male Model

AE has realeased an ingame model of an Elven Male Caster. Also they have released an animation of that Elven Male Caster.

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

More EQ Expansion Eye Candy

XGR.com has the latest screenshots of the recently announced expansion for EverQuest, Shadows of Luclin. There are only five of them, but they definitely look good. Check ’em out here.

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

Diablo II Patch, Expansion Screen

Some D2 related info coming atcha. First, that ferociously annoying-as-heck duping problem seems to be fixed for the most part in DiabloII on the closed battle.net realms… yes, for the past month people have found a way to duplicate items…

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

EverQuest Expansion Quirky Quickscans

Why is it that a majority of the screenshots taken from EverQuest for the use in previews and just plain old show seem to be of the weirdest things, strange positions, etc.? I believe there’s somewhat of an art to…

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

Throne o’ Bhaal Interview with Designer

The venerable RPG news site RPGVault presents an inviting interview with David Gaider [archive.org backup], senior designer working on the expansion pack to BG2, Throne of Bhaal. It mainly discusses what life is like for a designer at a renowned…

BuckGB
April 20, 2001

Three Walkthrough Locations & Item Location

I’ve posted up some of the more lengthy walkthrough locations this evening, including the Lower Ward and the Great Foundry. Hopefully I have all of the quests tracked down and noted, but if you see something missing, be sure to…