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Old Is New: This Year’s Best Games Are All About The Classics
2This fall, we’ve been getting the best sort of déja vu. From Dishonored to XCOM, many of the best games of the fall have learned from past classics and reworked them into smart, satisfying, fresh-feeling games. Is this new appreciation for 90’s classics a trend, or an anomaly? What exactly does “old-school” mean? Does the…
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Obsidian’s Project Eternity Smashes Past 2 Million On Kickstarter
To begin with Obsidian wanted $1.1 million to create Project Eternity. A large amount of money by Kickstarter standards. They had 30 days in which to raise the money. It reached that target quickly. Very quickly. So, as we’ve come to expect from Kickstarter projects, Obsidian created some stretch goals — features they would integrate…
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Obsidian Starts To Dole Out Details About Its Project Eternity Game
The Project Eternity Kickstarter campaign, which launched just last Friday, had easily surpassed its $US1.1 million goal before the weekend was out. Clearly, people are excited about a new, “old-school” RPG from Obsidian.
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Planescape: Torment Creator Tells Us What A Spiritual Successor Would Look Like
Perhaps you remember Planescape: Torment, a wonderful roleplaying game that set a new bar for video game narrative when it was released back in the late ’90s. Even today, very few games weave stories as intricate and fascinating as Black Isle’s masterpiece.