Despite appearances, it seems Disastercake merely dropped off the internet for a few months, and that development on Soul Saga Episode 1 continued (albeit in silence). In his first blog post in months, developer Michael Gale goes into the problems he experienced working with contract animators: You remember my animator, right?  Well, he quit.  And [...]

Erik Kain, Forbes’s resident games blogger, has posted a nicely written interview with Iron Tower Studio‘s Vince Weller (lead developer on the upcoming wRPG Age of Decadence). A snippet: Forbes: Tell me a little bit about Age of Decadence. What’s the setting and why did you choose that setting? Where did the name come from? [...]

It’s a good time for people into Zelda-alikes. Pixelscopic has announced Delver’s Drop, a procedurally generated dungeon crawler that draws some heavy inspiration from the temples of 2D Zelda fame. They describe the game like so: Delver’s Drop is a 2D Action RPG with fluid physics-based movement, snappy combat, shifting dungeons, and a rogue’s gallery [...]

Since first checking out the oddball RPG / point-and-click adventure Dark Scavenger back in July, I’ve had a lot of questions percolating in the back of my mind. Thankfully, Alex Gold of developer Psydra Games was good enough to sit down and answer them. Hey Alex! Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions. [...]

Today, we have an interview with a very special person in the world of RPG development: Chris Avellone. Among other things, Chris was lead designer on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, as well as on Planescape: Torment (widely considered to be one of the most artistically significant–if not simply the best–RPGs ever [...]

It seems like only yesterday when inXile, following hot on the heels of adventure game studio Double Fine, raised roughly a gagillion dollars* in the pursuit of funding for Wasteland 2. *$2,933,252 actually, but who’s counting? Brian Fargo, founder of inXile (and the guy responsible, directly or indirectly, for a surprisingly large number of the [...]

I recently reviewed Age of Fear: The Undead King. Although I decided that it’s a fantasy strategy game (as opposed to an RPG), there’s a sequel due to come out around the end of the year that may muddy those waters a bit. With the review behind me and only a few details about the [...]

There’s a new interview with Steven Peeler up at the Random Tower of Games blog, in which they discuss Soldak Entertainment’s upcoming action RPG Drox Operative. 4. Compared to your last game, Din’s Curse, what kind of new features players could find? The biggest new feature is basically all of the diplomacy with the races [...]

So! I just did a humongous audio interview with DeadlyHabit of Vinesauce Vidyas about a wide array of subjects, including but not limited to: Telepath RPG: Servants of God IndieRPGs.com politics in RPGs game development whether or not X-Com is an RPG which RPGs get covered on gaming blogs, and why. Fair warning: it’s really [...]

IndieGameMag reports that Stoic Studio, a newly-formed indie operation consisting of three former Bioware employees, have announced that they are creating a new turn-based tactical RPG called The Banner Saga. On their site, the devs describe their game as follows: role-playing meets turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about vikings. Travel through stunning landscapes [...]