IGN has announced their “Best of 2005” awards, with BioWare’s Jade Empire receiving four different awards in the Xbox category: Best Artistic Design, Best Story, Best RPG, and Xbox Game of the Year. Good news for BioWare: There were many…

RPG Vault is offering up a seventh excerpt from BradyGames’ official World of Warcraft strategy guide, in which we learn even more about the game’s crafting skills. A little something about skinning: When beasts are killed in the wild, Skinners…

WorthPlaying is the first to announce Silverfall, a new fantasy RPG in the works at KievGames, a subsidiary of Monte Cristo Games. Any RPG with co-op support piques my interest: Monte Cristo today announced Silverfall, a fantasy style RPG under…

RPGDot continues their coverage of role-playing games on handheld devices with a quick look at the titles available for the Nintendo DS. It doesn’t sound like there are too many available just yet, but more are coming next year: There…

The Gamers’ Temple has tossed up a review of Space Hack, giving Meridian4 and Rebelmind’s Diablo-inspired action RPG an overall score of 50%. Here’s why: The amount of similarities between Space Hack and Diablo are enormous. If you found yourself…

Wired.com has published a two-page article that details the final days prior to the December 30th shutdown of Turbine’s Asheron’s Call 2. What a shame… Online worlds are, of course, more than just playlands for slaughtering ogres and collecting magic…

Rumors of an IPO from Elevation’s newly formed BioWare/Pandemic continue, with GamesIndustry.biz now reporting that Pandemic president Josh Resnick has confirmed the possibility to the New York Times. They also mention that Lionhead Studios could potentially end up joining the…

The guys at TeamXbox have posted a two-page preview of Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, based on what we know about the highly anticipated RPG so far. An excerpt to follow: A trademark of the series, expect the same (sandbox)…

Next Generation has published an article entitled “PC Gaming’s Not Dead Yet”, citing several of 2005’s best games and E3 awards to back up this claim. I can’t agree more: Creatively and critically speaking, the market has rarely been stronger.…

Maximus from the Neverwinter Vault has begun a new three-part feature detailing a recent visit he paid to Obsidian Entertainment’s studio in Orange County, California. In the first installment, he gives us an intricate preview of Neverwinter Nights 2 after…