My review of the expansion to Neverwinter Nights 2 is now up at Crispy Gamer. I liked it much better than I thought I would. I guess practice makes perfect for Obsidian.
If you’d rather, you can sign up for the Crispy sweepstakes. Lots of big, big prizes which I am not allowed to compete for. […]

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My review of Nethergate: Resurrection is up at Gameshark. The text pretty much says it all. I have a fondness for the Spiderweb games, so your mileage may vary. But if you like RPGs with tons of sidequests and turn based combat, you owe it to yourself to try the demo.

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In an effort to expand the hobby gaming audience, Wizards of the Coast is going all Web 2.0 with the budget sci-fi name Gleemax. Gleemax will be a social networking community with user blogs, friends lists and web versions of Avalon Hill Games. The hope, it seems, is that this will bring strategy, Magic and […]

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Firefly Studios, the makers of Stronghold and CivCity Rome, are making an action RPG for the PC and 360. It’s apparently called Hero, though the word “dungeon” hovers over the name so it looks like it’s called Dungeon Hero.
This part of the press release caught my eye.
The first dungeon-based game to realistically depict underground life, […]

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Big Huge Games is moving away from the strategy genre for a while, it seems. Next Generation is reporting that Bethesda Softworks veteran Ken Rolston is signing on with the RTS masters to make a role playing game.
A console role playing game, by the way. They haven’t said which console, but considering the company’s past […]

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My favorite gaming forum has become infested by Oblivion. Bethesda’s latest role playing epic is the year’s first must-have game. It has been widely anticipated, heavily previewed and extensively screenshotted ever since it was announced. I expect that whereever you read and talk about games, Oblivion is the game de jour.
It is also one […]

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