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EverQuest Law Suit

Well, I guess it was inevitable. A group of EverQuest players have filed suit against Sony Entertainment for interfering with sales on EBay. To quote from the official website: NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE A LAW SUIT AGAINST SONY COMPUTER…

Deus Ex or BGII? You decide

In a new twist for fan voting, GamesDomain put each of the 16 finalists in groups of two for Game of the Year 2000, which then did one-on-one battle against each other… similar to any tourney. It’s come down to…

Interview & Preview of Dungeon Siege

For those who don’t know, Chris Taylor, one of those who designed the much-ballyhoo’d hit Total Annihilation, has been working on an incredible looking tactical RPG named Dungeon Siege that’s set for release this fall Ridersnewz put in some OT…

18 Glorious Shots of DAoC

The webmasters at Mythic Entertainment, makers of the upcoming MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot, updated their main webpage with a variety of new screens that do some justice to the game engine, which is looking smooth (with a little help…

Arcanum in a Nutshell

The classy folks at Sharky Games have interviewed (in depth) the co-founder of Troika Games and lead artist of their Victorian/ fantasy/ steam-technology era sci-fi RPG in the works, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Tampura… wait, that’s Obscura. There’s too…

Morrowind Designer Diary

The lead artist working on Morrowind, the single-player RPG expected to ship late this year with graphics that look almost too good for an RPG, has served VE up with a new designer diary and a healthy helping of 10…

Blizzard Contest and Diablo II

First, the name of the Diablo II expansion pack has been released in a press release today. It’s name? Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Among the other infopuffs in the press release, they’ve claimed to have sold over 2.75 million…

WCIII @ the Blizzard Cinema

With the usual Blizzard flair (let’s face it, they kick more glutius maximus than a herd of pissed off donkeys at anything that has to do with cinematics… okay and gameplay too), the official site opened with a 14 mb…

Promising RPG’s of ’01

GamesDomain, the site that’s picked it up a notch or two lately with regard to features, gives us a sampling of 10 of the (a few years ago there weren’t even 10 RPG’s coming out, period) sweetest looking RPGs on…

Sega Still “Supportive”

As a followup to yesterday, there’s an article over at Gamespot and at MCV that both cover Sega’s response to a Japanese mag’s allogation they are discontinuing the Dreamcast. Here’s the crux of it from Gamespot: In response to the…