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I want an Orc on my Visa 2007-05-20 15:27:00 Yep. You read it correctly. Visa have released a series of World of WarCraft themed credit cards. Which you can then use to buy WoW gold online. Or whatever someone with a WoW themed credit card would buy.
The card apparently benefits users with bonus game time, with 1% of every dollar you spend with the card going towards gaming credit.
Accrue World of Warcraft gametime at the rate of 1% of
Blades of Exile source code released 2007-05-20 10:30:00 Older RPG fans will remember Blades
of Exile
by Spiderweb software, a top-down isometric sprite based role-playing game (gasps for air) from way back in 1997. The game is so old that its source code is now being offered for fans to tinker with, free. So, a little piece of RPG history has died its commercial death and passed into the hands of its users.
Let me know if you see anything Read more:released
World of Warcraft Game Hub 2007-05-20 07:28:00 World of Warcraft
is a pay-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released for PC in 2004 and has since garnered positive reviews, awards, and a massive fan-base of over 8.5 million subscribed users.
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Quick News 2007-05-20 06:08:00 PC + Video Games:
Worthplaying has 35 new screens of Opoona, a 'life-style RPG' for the Wii, and 9 new screens of Eternal Sonata, an RPG produced exclusively for the XBOX 360, and 8 new screens of Loki, an action role-playing game in which you play four different heroes from world mythology.
Two Worlds for PC has been patched to version 1.3. You can download the patch from the Updates page at Read more:Quick
No 'World of Starcraft'... yet 2007-05-20 06:03:00 Blizzard Entertainment has just announced that its next major project will be Starcraft 2 - a real-time strategy game. The official site is now live.
Don't think they won't make an MMORPG out of it, though. Warcraft was originally real-time strategy, too. Read more:World
Game Hubs Project 2007-05-20 05:11:00 I'm hoping to add various game hubs to the site for popular RPGs. Each game hub will contain high quality game guides and links to the best fan-sites and content. It will contain content recommended by RPG-fans for RPG-fans. The hubs will be accessable via the links on the right (under Games) and via the Games menu link up the top. Read more:Project
Friday Q&A #1 2007-05-18 03:39:00 How it works: use the comments form of this post to ask me any RPG-related question. Stuck in a particular area of Dungeon Seige? Ask me. Got a bug in the Shivering Isles? Ask me. Want to know what the average review score of Baldur's Gate 2 was? Ask me. And so on. If it's related to RPGs - even vaguely - I'll answer your question to the best of my abilities.
How you will get your answer: I'll Read more:Friday
Friday Link-tacular 2007-05-18 03:29:00 Poking around the web (as I often do of a friday) I stumbled upon a site which I think any person who appreciates fantasy/sci-fi will really like. The site is ConceptArt.org, and it contains a gallery of several hundred pieces of (really good) artwork. Some suggested uses:
Use a piece as concept art for your RPG character.Inspiration for modders.Inspiration for world-builders.Motivate your inner Read more:Friday
Deus Ex 3? 2007-05-18 03:02:00 From IGN, 'Eidos Confirms Next Deus Ex':
US, May 17, 2007 - In a recent interview on French-language television station MusiquePlus the director of Eidos France, Patrick Melchior, revealed a new Deus Ex game is in the works. The revival of the franchise is the "first mission" of Eidos' new Montreal studio, currently made up of around 40 people.
Deus Ex is an action RPG series created by
Quick News 2007-05-18 02:44:00 IGN has new screens of The Witcher, an upcoming fantasy RPG.
The Mass Effect official site has made available Chapter 9 of its Revelation novel.
CVG has released three parts of its four-part 101 Best PC Games feature. A number of roleplaying titles have made the list, including NWN, Thief, and Vampire: Bloodlines. CVG is also offering a preview of Two Worlds.
RPG Vault interviews the Director Read more:Quick
Are you addicted? 2007-05-17 15:03:00 World of Warcraft players hold an in-game funeral for 'Snowly', the gamer who died at his computer after playing World of Warcraft for days on end.
Perhaps this is all old news, but I've just today discovered several sites out there dedicated to gamers with a World of Warcraft addiction. Two gamers have already died at their computers playing WoW.
World of Warcraft Detox is a volunteer-run web
Top 25 Cinematics 2007-05-17 05:09:00 The GameSpy editors have picked their top 25 in-game cinematics of all time. RPGs feature throughout, with the following games we know and love making the list:
No. 23 - Final Fantasy XII (PS2): Opening
No. 20 - Kingdom Hearts (PS2): Deep-dive Japanese only special ending
No. 15 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS2): Opening
No. 10 - Final Fantasy VII (PS2): Sephiroth kills Aeris
No. 7 - Kingdom Hearts (
Quick News 2007-05-17 04:54:00 WorthPlaying.com offers 15 new screens of FPS/RPG hybrid Hellgate: London.
IGN has some new screens from the upcoming RPG release Gods and Heroes.
The Lord of the Rings Online has knocked WoW: The Burning Crusade off the top spot, becoming the current highest selling PC title. Those MMORPGs, eh?
The release of Two Worlds has slipped back to July this year.
RPG Vault have posted the second Read more:Quick
Pirates of the Caribbean Online Beta released 2007-05-17 04:34:00 "Woah, guys, hold on a minute, wtf?"
... for FilePlanet subscribers only.
FilePlanet subscribers: "Yeah! w00t! Huzzah!"
Non FilePlanet subscribers: *wipe tear*
Ah well, in the mean time, you can check out the official site of this pirate-centric MMORPG.
If anyone manages to download the Beta, feel free to post your impressions here. Read more:released
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Fallout 3: new concept art 2007-05-16 12:48:00 Visit the official site to view the previous two bits of concept art and listen to the game's title score. What is that strange, space-ship looking thing? It's an aircraft carrier. How do I know this? The title of the image is carrier_m.jpg - and the folks at the Fallout
forum seem to think it is. Yes, I don't really know what an aircraft carrier looks like. I'm a sensitive role-player - don't
Starcraft Saturday? 2007-05-16 12:27:00 Blizzard Entertainment, creators of the massively popular MMORPG World of Warcraft, are set to announce a new title on Saturday
. Yesterday, we had hope that this would be an RPG. OK, whatever, maybe I was a little optimistic. Either way, I've been shot down today. GameSpot mounts a convincing argument that this title will be Starcraft 2. Here's the key point they make:
... [S]aid surprise's
Vanguard sold 2007-05-16 12:05:00 Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has purchased the Vanguard
: Saga of Heroes MMORPG from Sigil Online. Many members of the Sigil Online team will join SOE, and the game's creator is slated to maintain a close involvement with the project. Here's an excerpt from the press release:
The MMO launched in late January of this year and has sold nearly 200,000 retail and digital units worldwide. Sigil CEO
Burning Crusade breaks records, banks 2007-05-16 11:40:00 The World of Warcraft expansion pack, BurningCrusade
, has sold more copies than any other PC title over a one month period. It's so far sold 3.5 million copies across Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand... and it hasn't even hit the shelves in China yet - perhaps in an attempt to save them from themselves.
The lucrative title has boosted publisher Vivendi Games' revenue 117% on Read more:breaks
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Pirates of the... Caribbean Action-RPG? 2007-05-16 11:22:00 White Gold: War in Paradise offers modern-day gameplay combining both the Action
and RPG genres. Here's an excerpt from RPG Vault's write-up:
Described as a blend of first-person shooter and RPG, if lists a number of interesting features such as an open gameworld and a non-linear story. The team is implementing a character system with the option to emphasize stealth or diplomacy over fighting Read more:Pirates
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An introduction 2007-05-14 09:25:00 I don't want to make a big deal out of this, as it's pretty clear what this site is dedicated to. So, here's a few basic facts to get us started.
This site is a personal project, run by someone who's passionate about role-playing games of all kinds. I'm the only person working on this site, and thus its content will inevitably reflect my taste. I'm at university full-time, and I don't get paid
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1. What is this site?
RPG Blog opened on the 14th of May, 2007. There are many RPG news sites out there, but I felt the web needed a site which dealt with
Contact 2007-05-09 16:39:00 This blog is owned and run by Le Driver. News tips, suggestions, comments and criticism can be sent to ledriver at gmail dot com. I'd also welcome the opportunity to exchange links.
All Games 2007-05-09 16:38:00 Click on the listing below to view all posts related to that title.
Deus Ex 3DiabloDiablo IIFallout 3Pirates of the Caribbean OnlineStarcraft 2The Last RemnantVanguard: Saga of HeroesWhite Gold: War in Paradise
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New Fallout 3 concept art 2007-05-23 02:24:00 With 13 days to go until the release of the Fallout
3 trailer Bethesda have unveiled a new piece of concept art on the official site's splash page. The setting is a ruined 50s-style strip-mall called Paradise Falls.
Mad Max has always been an inspiration for the Fallout series and its influence is pretty hard to miss here. I stayed in Coober Pedy (the outback South Australian town where Mad Max
Quick News 2007-05-22 21:39:00 JoWood has announced it will be bringing its Gothic series to consoles. Having split from developers Pirahna Bytes (due to issues with the quality and stability of their development work) it is now searching for a major development studio to bring Gothic 4 to PC and Consoles in future. [Source: Worthplaying]
Gamasutra are offering a 6 page feature on what makes a good player character (and what Read more:Quick
Dialogue in RPGs 2007-05-22 01:56:00 RPG Codex's Vault Dweller has interviewed Brian Mitsoda (working on Obsidian's Project Georgia), J. E. Sawyer (Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights 2), Scott Bennie (Fallout, Star Trek: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary) and David Gaider (Baldur's Gate 2, Knights of the Old Republic) on dialogue in role-playing games.
It's a fascinating and detailed interview. Rarely do we get the chance to pick
Lionhead.net interviews Peter Molyneux 2007-05-22 01:41:00 Who is Peter
Molyneux? The brains behind Fable, and the upcoming Fable 2. You can watch a video of the interview or read the transcript. In it, Peter reflects on the games he has created, their strengths and failings, Fable 2's innovative combat system, NPCs, and Project X.
Here's an interesting quote from the interview, talking about gameplay in Fable 2:
... Fable 1, I think, one of the
The Last Remnant official site confirms Japanese RPG's characters will be effeminate, have strange hair-styles 2007-05-21 03:35:00 Square Enix's upcoming RPG title The Last Remnant, if the website splash screen is to be believed, will offer gamers several things:
Grandeur and elegance.The fact that it has been developed with 'the highest peak of technology in mind'.An effeminate character with blue hair and a lavender sash.A fierce warrior character who appears to have bought Britney Spears' blonde locks from eBay and Read more:Japanese
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