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Val Hull
July 5, 2019

Warren Spector Interview

A couple months back, during this year’s Reboot Develop conference, the folks over at WCCFTech had a chance to chat with Warren Spector who, among many other things, directed the original Deus Ex. The resulting interview mainly covers Spector’s work…

Val Hull
October 2, 2018

GOG Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary – Sales and Giveaways

GOG.COM, the online video game store dedicated to providing us with a way to play the “good old games” on modern systems DRM-free, is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary. As a result, we get an updated storefront design, a massive…

BuckGB
April 1, 2018

The Five Best Years in PC Gaming History

PC Gamer has listed what they feel are the “top 5” best years for PC gaming, and while I don’t think they go back far enough (1985 was a crazy good year for adventure and RPG fans, in particular), the…

Val Hull
January 26, 2018

A List of Influential Immersive Sims

Immersive sims, otherwise known as stealth games or simply RPGs, are the subject of this Gamasutra article where a number of developers from across the gaming industry list 7 influential games of this type that everyone, including other developers, should…

Val Hull
September 3, 2017

The Making of System Shock 2’s Opening Area

This Eurogamer article takes a close look at the opening Med/Sci level of System Shock 2 with the help of its original designer – Ian Vogel. It’s a nice lesson in game design that walks us through Vogel’s creative process…

Val Hull
August 17, 2017

The Uncertain Future of Immersive Sims

This PC Gamer article talks about the underwhelming sales of the recently released immersive sim games and the possible reasons for that happening, right after a booming resurgence of the genre heralded by BioShock and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Now,…

Val Hull
August 1, 2017

PCGamesN’s PC Classics That Are Still Worth Playing

The editors at PCGamesN have put together a list of classic PC games that, in their mind, are still worth playing. And while I disagree that games somehow become worse with the passage of time, the titles they list are…

Val Hull
July 22, 2017

GOG RPG Sale

The folks at GOG want to distract us from this summer’s sweltering heat by offering us a chance to play a lot of heavily discounted RPGs. Their Weekly Sale Vol. 23 that will last until July 24 2017, 4PM UTC…

Val Hull
July 10, 2017

Richard Cobbett on RPG Villains

The latest of Richard Cobbett’s RPG Scrollbars columns talks in detail about the intricate process of creating fun, memorable, and satisfying video game antagonists. We get to read about a variety of villain archetypes and their nefarious tricks, and learn…

Val Hull
May 24, 2017

Why System Shock Matters

An editorial on Glixel tries to answer why System Shock, a game from 1994 that didn’t even sell too well still matters to this day. A number of quotes from Warren Spector, Chris Avellone, and Paul Neurath provide an insider’s…