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Lord of Record Sales: Blizzard Says Diablo III Is Fastest Selling PC Game in History
23 May 2012, 10:24 am
Surprise, Diablo III sold to the moon and back since its release last week on Tuesday, May 15, says developer/publisher Blizzard in so many words. In fact the company says more than 3.5 million people picked up a copy of its action-
roleplaying trilogy closer during the game's first 24 hours on sale, which would make it the fastest selling PC game of all time.
Pathfinder MMO on Kickstarter
17 May 2012, 3:11 am
Back in 2009 Paizo Publishing released Pathfinder , a table-top
roleplaying game that extended the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 ruleset. Pathfinder has gained considerable popularity in the ensuing years, and now the team at Paizo is embarking on a new project, Pathfinder Online .
Freedom Force: Superhero role-playing done right
11 May 2012, 6:31 pm
Filed under: Features , PC , Retro , RPGs This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. The Avengers ' huge success in its first week of release may represent the pinnacle of the superhero takeover of mainstream culture. Superhero comics have long been ...
Can You Learn Geography With Zombies?
10 May 2012, 3:09 pm
Can the zombie apocalypse teach all that you need to know about geography? What about a
roleplaying game that requires players to plan their course of action? Can that kind of gameplay reinforce geographic lessons, especially when the
roleplaying includes …
Watch: The Elder Scrolls Online Trailer Launches with Official Site
4 May 2012, 9:39 am
As expected, Bethesda just released a teaser trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online, dropping it dead center of the official website for the forthcoming online
roleplaying game. There’s not much to see yet, just a minute and ten seconds of brooding voiceover as someone holds forth about the state of the realm, e.g. the imperial [...]
Tabletop Forge Team Discuss Google+ Hangouts Project
4 May 2012, 9:05 am
I’m not as involved as I used to be, but I was a big fan of tabletop
roleplaying games during my college years. I especially loved playing Call of Cthulhu. Eventually, friends left and we just sort of stopped playing. …
Make Believe Can Really Help Business
3 May 2012, 5:15 pm
I was very pleased to see that Lizzie Stark’s new book, “ Leaving Mundania: Inside the World of Grownup Make-Believe ” is now available. Lizzie’s book is an excellent explanation of live-action
roleplaying (larping) and how it works.
Move Over Skyrim, Here Comes The Elder Scrolls Online
3 May 2012, 12:24 pm
No, that’s not a guess or a rumor — Bethesda’s finally rolling its titanic The Elder Scrolls fantasy
roleplaying series into an online version, coming next year for both PC and Mac. The news is breaking now, courtesy Game Informer. The magazine hints the game will cover all of Tamriel, the continent on which the [...]
A Tale of Two Investigations (Trail of Cthulhu Adventure Review)
3 May 2012, 2:04 am
Back in November I reviewed the Trail of Cthulhu RPG, and now it is time to turn our attention to some of the adventures that have been published by Pelgrane Press for the system. For many of gamers, a
roleplaying game is only as good as the adventures that are published for it, and this is especially true as we try to shoehorn in gaming sessions into our busy lives. Nowadays, low prep or no ...
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Pianist transports listeners into fantasy world of gamers - Stuff
27 May 2012, 11:30 am
New Plymouth Boys' High School student Matthew Reeve performed theme tunes from the role-playing video game Final Fantasy during a lunchtime performance at the museum. "I learnt to play when I was quite young and when I first heard them [the theme tunes ...
Diablo® III Now Live - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 6:01 am
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Diablo ® III, the highly anticipated next chapter in its award-winning action–role-playing-game series, is now available in retail stores throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Korea ...
'Diablo III' fans celebrate game's release - Yahoo Finance
26 May 2012, 11:48 pm
for the gritty role-playing sequel set in the fantastical world of Sanctuary. Anticipation for "Diablo III" from publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. has bubbled over because the previous entry in the series was released 12 years ago, a lifetime ...
Why the Collapse of 38 Studios May Be Good for Rhode Island - Forbes
26 May 2012, 1:47 pm
38 Studios was developing a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO), based on their previous (and only) title, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and codenamed Project Copernicus, on June 2013. MMOs are expensive to develop and expensive to maintain.
BioWare cuts 'Star Wars' staff - CNET News
22 May 2012, 12:54 pm
BioWare's founders noted that a bright future awaits those playing the "Star Wars"-theme MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online role-playing game: "We still have a very substantial development team working on supporting and growing the game ...
