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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…

Official press release by Ubisoft

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.

Amazon Honor System

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…

Question of the Day Update

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…

Quick Update

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