I’m hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time

If the words “King of Dragon Pass” don’t mean anything to you, you owe it to yourself to correct that. Originally released in 1999, it and its Six Ages successors are some of the finest fantasy in videogames, with systems-driven storytelling involving everything from settling multigenerational cattle disputes to undertaking mythic quests in the realm…

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Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series’ best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore

As reported by TheGamer, BioWare producer Mark Darrah opened up about the history of attempted Dragon Age remasters and remakes at BioWare in a recent interview with MrMattyPlays on YouTube. The former BioWare dev thinks a remaster of the first three Dragon Age games is the best shot the series has at a future, but…

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Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections ‘are very consistent with our initial expectations’ despite its rough start: ‘The key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn’

Civilization 7 got off to a rough start when it dropped earlier this year: Systemic changes, particularly the addition of “ages,” proved deeply divisive, but there was also a slew of more basic problems with bugs, AI issues, and a widely-disliked UI. It remains stuck with a “mixed” user rating on Steam, and concurrent player…

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‘We’re genuinely psyched that there are more options out there’: 2XKO head says he’s jazzed to see more studios jumping in to help revive the humble tag fighter

Tag fighters are back, baby. Or at least they’re going to be back. At some point. After a verifiable dearth of the things for a good long while, Riot came out swinging in February 2024 by renaming Project L to the still-questionable 2XKO and revealing that it was going to be a 2v2 dukeout. But…

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