Tag: RPG
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Dark Alliance: D&D Video Game Coming This Summer
Explore the frozen reaches of Icewind Dale and fight infamous monsters in the upcoming D&D video game: Dark Alliance, developed by Tuque Games. Pre-orders are open right now, ahead of the game’s release later this year! Published by Wizards of the Coast, Dark Alliance brings everyone’s favourite characters and also monsters together in an action-driven,…
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Blade & Soul: Revolution Open World Mobile RPG Announced For 2021
Blade & Soul Revolution, by Netmarble Corp., the open-world mobile RPG, has been slated for a 2021 worldwide release. The game is directly inspired by the popular Korean PC MMORPG Blade & Soul and is set to bring all the bells and whistles of that title to the portable screen! Netmarble Corp. has said they’re…
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Genshin Impact Roadmap – What is Coming Next?
Genshin Impact is the latest game to take the world by storm. The free-to-play open-world RPG launched on September 28 across multiple platforms (PlayStation 4, PC, and Mobile) and drawers similarities to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Genshin Impact is a ‘Gacha Game’. Essentially using a microtransaction system to buy loot boxes…
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Musings on Star Ocean: The Second Story
Throughout the 8-bit and 16-bit eras of gaming, RPGs were kind of a niche thing. Even though there were some great games out there during this time (early Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and the Phantasy Star series), it was mostly a niche genre of gaming as far as these things went. It wasn’t until the…
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Super Mario RPG 2 is Coming to Switch?!
This year has had many wild rumors and claims about Nintendo, yet another one has just been added to the pile. Twitter user Sharito742 claims that they have gotten a hot tip that SquareEnix and Nintendo are teaming up for a sequel to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Supposedly, Nintendo will bring…
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Baldur’s Gate 3: What We Know
It has been, what seems like an eternity since we last had the pleasure of devoting hours upon hours of time into a Baldur’s Gate game. I remember in the 2000s playing Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance 2 on my older brother’s crystal Xbox and being thoroughly immersed in the narrative and game-play. At the time…
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Why Is Project Skywind Important
In 2002 Morrowind had just been released, Bethesda’s next release in the Elder Scrolls series. Their last release was 4 years prior in 1998 so you can imagine this was a giant leap forward. Project Skywind is a volunteer project with the task of remaking Morrowind within the Skyrim: Special Edition engine. It is a…
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Musings on Super Paper Mario
Paper Mario: The Origami King has just been released in the past couple of weeks. I have yet to pick it up myself for a couple of reasons. One of those is that I currently have too many games in my “to play” stack for my Switch (and for everything else, for that matter). I definitely…
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How to use Black 3.0 – Dungeon Craft
“For all my life I have lived in shadow; the shadow of the city where I lie, cheat, and steal for scraps of bread. The shadow of my parents, once proud nobles, killed when I was but a child. The shadow of the empire, whose false light darkens the world around it. I now wear…
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Musings on the Secret of Mana
“Some of us like chocolate ice cream, some of us like vanilla ice cream, and some of us like strawberry.” The bulk of my gaming memories are from the Nineties through the early 00s. I vividly remember the excitement of the Console Wars from my childhood. I remember people arguing over the merits of the…
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Dungeon Craft: Pass or Fail is Stale
Dungeons and Dragons is “The World’s Greatest RPG” by Wizards’ own claim. Sales numbers do not dispute this claim, nor do I. However, this does not mean we cannot learn from other RPGs. Lately, I’ve taken to playing pooled d6 based systems, like Shadowrun and Warhammer 40,000: Wrath and Glory. Now, I use these tools…