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Val Hull
July 25, 2022

George MacDonald Interview – Matt Chat

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat show features George MacDonald who, back in the ’80s, designed the superhero Champions RPG and then went on to work at SSI and had a hand in designing such classics like Pool…

Val Hull
April 21, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Classics – Steam Edition Impressions

Following the recent Steam release of SSI’s Gold Box games, we get this PC Gamer article that takes them out for a spin and shares some general impressions. If you’d like to know what to expect from these games, or…

Val Hull
March 31, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Now Live on Steam

The Gold Box Classics bundle, originally scheduled for a March 25, 2022 release, is now available on Steam. The bundle consists of several “collections,” each featuring a number of highly-acclaimed Gold Box RPGs, including the Eye of the Beholder trilogy,…

Val Hull
March 12, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Coming to Steam

If you wouldn’t mind having a whole heap of Gold Box games in your Steam library, come March 25, 2022 you’ll be able to purchase a number of bundles on Valve’s digital store. These include the Krynn, Ravenloft and Dark…

Val Hull
September 3, 2021

A Look at Forgotten Realms’ PC History

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you know all about the long and storied history of D&D-based video games, and in particular, the ones wrapped in the now-flagship Forgotten Realms setting. Still, if you’d like to reminisce, or…

Val Hull
November 8, 2020

Opening the Gold Box, Part 7: Back to the Roots

What looks to be the final part of The Digital Antiquarian’s “Opening the Gold Box” series of posts takes a close look at the twilight years of both SSI, the team behind the Gold Box games, and TSR, the original…

Val Hull
February 27, 2019

Pool of Radiance Revisited – Matt Chat

Ten years ago, Matt Barton recorded a short video where he talked about SSI’s “Gold Box” RPG Pool of Radiance. That little video ended up being the first episode of his Matt Chat show that, over the years, brought us…

Val Hull
July 24, 2017

Richard Cobbett on Old RPG Reviews

Richard Cobbett seems to be done with RPG Scrollbars for the foreseeable future. No more weekly arachnophobic and crafting-hating RPG editorials for us, I guess. So, what’s the topic of the final edition of the long-running Rock, Paper, Shotgun column?…

Val Hull
May 20, 2017

PC Gamer’s History of RPGs

Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from way back in 1975. With the sheer scope of the RPG genre, some titles get overlooked, but for the…

Val Hull
May 18, 2017

Dungeons & Dragons in PC Gaming Through the Years

An editorial on PCGamesN takes a look at the symbiotic relationship between the behemoth of tabletop roleplaying, Dungeons & Dragons, and PC games. It lists a number of influential examples, starting with Pool of Radiance and concluding with the recently…