Star Wars: KotOR

In The Cards

Richard Cobbett has penned yet another RPG Scrollbars column for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and this time he focuses his attention on card game spin-offs and minigames. With the explosion of Hearthstone in the last few years and the success of…

Heroes Don’t Craft

Richard Cobbett has penned an analysis – more of a rant, really – of crafting in RPGs and other video games that comes to a simple, very basic conclusion: heroes don’t craft. Cobbett’s comical frustrations aside, many complaints in the piece…

David Gaider Leaves BioWare

Just like when Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka left BioWare and Chris Avellone left Obsidian, this is yet again a case where I find it difficult to imagine this particular developer outside the studio he’s worked at for so long. And…

Eight of the Greatest RPG Franchises of All Time

Mass Effect, Fallout, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Pokemon, Baldur’s Gate, Final Fantasy, Ultima, and The Elder Scrolls round off The Escapist’s list of “The Greatest RPG Franchises of All Time”. There are some glaring absences, but I…

The BioWare Romance Trap

In a new column for The Escapist titled “The BioWare Romance Trap”, writer Shamus Young argues that BioWare progressively moved away from romance plots that fit seamlessly with the overarching game plots to a large number of extraneous romances that…

Why BioWare’s Games Inspire a Unique Kind of Fandom

The editors at PC Gamer have editorialized about the fervent fanbase that BioWare enjoys due to the studio’s story-crafting abilities, the interactivity they present in each of their titles, their inclusion of homosexual romances, and their focus on character customization.…

Where’s Knights of the Old Republic III?

GameInformer’s Joe Juba has penned a brief article for the magazine’s website to explain why fans still clamor for a Knights of the Old Republic threequel 10 years after the release of Knights of the Old Republic II, why The…

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic NVIDIA SHIELD Interview

Following an earlier video interview, Aspyr Media senior product and sales manager Michael Blair has once again chatted with Shacknews about their plans to bring BioWare’s original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to NVIDIA’s SHIELD devices. This is…