Now this is interesting: Pete King of Third Impression writes in to announce the development of Blood Rune, a game intentionally modeled on the old SSI Gold Box series. Blood Rune seems to be fairly early in development, but it’s hard not to get a little excited reading what Mr. King has planned for it: […]

Basilisk Games has written a post to explain why Eschalon Book III is taking so long, and to reassure everyone that it is coming out sometime in 2012…maybe. I quote from the post: What this all means is: YES, Book III is coming!! We really blew our development schedule in 2011, missing almost every deadline […]

Anders Staugaard has emailed me announcing the development of a 3D, first-person, wilderness survival RPG by the name of Forging Life. He is part of a two-man team developing what looks to be a highly ambitious game. Here is how he describes it: We might be a couple of nerds missing the old days, but […]

A few weeks ago, developer Brandon Abley announced a new RPG called Wilfred the Hero. “But Craig,” you say, “Wilfred the Hero was created and released 6 years ago as a free RPG Maker game.” True: but this is a different Wilfred the Hero, because it’s in 3D, and…well, I’m not sure what else is […]

This one took me by surprise. With a name like “Secrets of Grindea,” I expected to find a generic jRPG with (what else?) endless grinding. Not exactly. Developer Pixel Ferrets describe the upcoming 4-player-cooperative action RPG like so: Secrets of Grindea is an old-school RPG, with co-op support for up to 4 players. In the […]

Steven Peeler (known for fantasy action RPGs such as Din’s Curse) wrote to me last week to announce a new RPG by his company, Soldak Entertainment, this time set in space. He did a pretty thorough job describing the game, which description I will now reproduce for your reading pleasure: Drox Operative is a starship […]

Banov has now officially announced his newest RPG project, Phantasmaburbia. “But Craig,” you say, “didn’t you post about this befo–” Yes. But now it’s official. More importantly, he’s released a new demo and a trailer for us to play/look at, respectively, which means that it’s news. Here’s that trailer:

Kitty Lambda Games has announced The Real Texas, an up-and-coming action adventure game in the Zelda style. The Real Texas is an action adventure game that plays like a mashup of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ultima VI. Sam, and [sic] ordinary Texas rancher, is on holiday in England when he falls into a […]

Remember that remake of the original Avernum that Jeff Vogel talked about doing in my interview with him last month? Spiderweb Games has now sent out a press release today officially announcing the remake to everyone who hadn’t already read about it in the interview. It reads: Avernum: Escape From the Pit is an epic […]

Developer Roman Zeitl of Dynamic Games writes in to let us know about the development of a new RPG by the name of Warlock – Tower of Fentrax. ToF is modeled in large part on Ultima IV and V, with a big emphasis on wilderness survival: Tower of Fentrax will be a roleplaying game that […]