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Despite not releasing any new RPGs in 2022, Obsidian Entertainment has had a pretty good year. And if you'd like to know whet...

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Adam Heine, who you may know as one of the developers on Planescape: Torment and the lead designer on inXile's Torment: ...

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Back in 2019, during a Matt Chat episode, George Ziets told the world about Digimancy Entertainment, his new studio dedicated...

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While this PC Gamer retrospective dedicated to Black Isle Studios and their games is unlikely to tell you anything you don't ...

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The editors over at PC Gamer have assembled a fresh list of what they consider to be the best RPGs currently available on PC....

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The third and final installment of Matt Barton’s interview with Colin McComb is primarily focused on inXile Entertainment�...

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Last week, we got a chance to check out the introductory part of Matt Barton’s chat with Colin McComb that was focused on M...

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Colin McComb, a prominent game designer who worked on a number of high-profile pen and paper RPG settings including Planescap...

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The latest episode of Matt Barton's Matt Chat show features the fourth part of Matt's interview with George Ziets. This time ...

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During the previous episode of Matt Barton's Matt Chat show we got a sneak peek of Matt's interview with George Ziets, a vide...

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We've stumbled upon a new "A History of Isometric CRPGs" video series on YouTube, which currently offers seven installments t...

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In an interesting turn of events, Skybound Games and Beamdog have announced a collaboration to bring the Infinity Engine Enha...

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Just as we did with our Baldur's Gate subsite when Beamdog introduced their first Enhanced Edition release, we've overhauled ...

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With a fresh batch of rumors about a possible Baldur's Gate sequel swirling around, the folks over at PCGamesN have reached o...

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Colin McComb, a veteran video game writer and RPG designer who worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Fallout 2, and Torment: Tide...

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If you feel nostalgic for Interplay's Infinity Engine RPGs, or alternatively if you've enjoyed Obsidian Entertainment's Infin...

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In order to try and figure out how one can go about creating compelling video game characters, the team over at Gamasutra rea...

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Having started his game-making career at Black Isle Studios in 1999, by now Josh Sawyer is one of the more recognizable names...

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After roughly two years of correspondence, the long-awaited RPG Codex interview with Chris Avellone is finally here, or at le...

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Boss fights are not a thing exclusive to RPGs, but reading this list of great and awful boss fights brought to us by PC Gamer...

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PC Gamer has listed what they feel are the "top 5" best years for PC gaming, and while I don't think they go back far enough ...

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Side quests are a pretty important part of roleplaying games. Depending on how well they're designed, side quests can make an...

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RPGs are not always about saving the world or making tough decisions with long-reaching implications. Sometimes they're simpl...

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Iron Tower Studio's Vince D. Weller and Wormwood Studios' Mark Yohalem talk about the ins and outs of RPG design with Chris P...

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The recent “Next Level” video dedicated to the Enhanced Edition artisans at Beamdog had a few frames of Planescape-themed...

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Flexing their list-making muscles prior to the inevitable game of the year season, the folks over at PCGamesN have put togeth...

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The latest edition of Dragon+, the digital version of the esteemed D&D Dragon magazine, has a treat for all you Planescap...

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The previously mentioned Czech localization for Beamdog's Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition is now live on Steam as Update...

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Revising a cult classic like Planescape: Torment such that it would meet modern device standards and resolutions while preser...

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In case any of our readers have only just discovered the amazing world of CRPGs, you might be interested in checking out this...

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If you ever wanted to know more about Obsidian Entertainment's Josh Sawyer and his career than some might consider reasonable...

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By now you've probably noticed the recent surge in Obsidian-related articles across the Gamer Network websites that include U...

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Richard Cobbett seems to be done with RPG Scrollbars for the foreseeable future. No more weekly arachnophobic and crafting-ha...

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Ustatkowany Gracz, or The Settled Down Gamer, a Polish website, has managed to get some alone time with Chris Avellone and as...

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A couple of PCGamesN editors have recently sat down to discuss InXile's Torment: Tides of Numenera and that led them to a len...

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The latest of Richard Cobbett's RPG Scrollbars columns talks in detail about the intricate process of creating fun, memorable...

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Worldbuilding is an important aspect of RPGs and as such, IGN offers us their take on what the best RPG worlds are, in a conv...

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Richard Cobbett spends the majority of his latest RPG Scrollbars column talking about all the times video games, and RPGs in ...

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The editors at PC Gamer have put together a list of the best, in their opinion, RPG companions. The result is quite an eclect...

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An interview with Chris Avellone where he talks about his involvement with Owlcat's Pathfinder: Kingmaker has popped up on Fa...

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Planescape: Torment is a game chock-full of real world references and various Easter eggs. The latest post on Beamdog's blog ...

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Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from ...

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On his personal blog, Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software says what we've all probably been thinking. That is – video game...

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While a good portion of the article is devoted to Planescape: Torment and its recently released Enhanced Edition, this "A Mod...

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A new post on the official Beamdog blog talks about all the little hidden messages and Easter eggs they've found during their...

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The final 20 titles that IGN considers to be the best of the best when it comes to RPGs have been unveiled. By now, their edi...

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According to a post on Beamdog's official blog, the Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment is doing quite well, with abundan...

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GOG's official Twitch channel has a special treat for us - a nearly two hour long interview session with none other than Chri...

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The official soundtrack for Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition is the subject of the latest post on the Beamdog's blog, wit...

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An RPG Codex representative has recently visited the offices of InXile Entertainment and came back with a lengthy interview f...

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The recent announcement of the Planescape: Torment's remastering came as a surprise, and not long after, the game is out. An ...

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RPGWatch has a new interview online with a handful of the team members behind the remastering of the iconic Planescape: Torme...

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In a trip down the memory lane post, the official Beamdog blog, or Beamblog if you will, lists the companions you can take al...

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The latest episode of the official Dungeons & Dragons podcast, Dragon Talk, has a nice treat - an audio interview with Ch...

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Chris Avellone and Beamdog's Phil Daigle have participated in a roughly two hour long livestream session, showcasing the upco...

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Following the announcement of Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition, Beamdog's official blog boasts a Q&A-style interview ...

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Geek & Sundry managed to get their hands on an early copy of Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition. They now offer a revie...

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The latest Richard Cobbett's RPG Scrollbars column on Rock, Paper, Shotgun takes a light-hearted approach towards the announc...

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It seems our prediction was accurate, as Beamdog gave us the announcement we were hoping for today - the seminal CRPG Planesc...

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Yesterday, after many years of being dark following its stint of being an unofficial Planescape fansite in the late 1990s and...

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A short interview with InXile's Brian Fargo has surfaced on The Gaming Ground. In it, the veteran developer talks about old s...

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In what seems to be becoming a once every five years tradition(quinquennial, as the fancy people call it), Eurogamer has orga...

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During the recent GDC, Chris Avellone joined Kotaku's Splitscreen podcast to talk about his career. The end result is an info...

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With the long-awaited release of Torment: Tides of Numenera finally upon us, GOG has an interview with Colin McComb and Adam ...

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In a post to GOG.com earlier today, the team announced that inXile Entertainment's Colin McComb would be streaming footage of...

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The one and only Chris Avellone participated in a livestreamed interview with Colm Larkin, the creator of Guild of Dungeoneer...

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People love "best of" lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The cri...

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RPG Codex has published an interview they conducted with Obsidian Entertainment's Josh Sawyer. It is extremely long and goes ...

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This recent and lengthy editorial points to the way in which quest design and execution have been handled in virtually every ...

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The latest Monday RPG column from Richard Cobbett covers the narrative idiosyncrasies of video role-playing games and how c...

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WatchMojo.com has compiled a top 10 of Western role-playing games published during the 80s and 90s, which excludes MMORPGs an...

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The latest "The RPG Scrollbars" weekly column from Richard Cobbett for Rock, Paper, Shotgun focuses on the way role-playing g...

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The full interview with Chris Avellone from PC Invasion has been released today after having been teased yesterday. The full ...

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While I have to admit, I am not completely surprised, this is still shocking news: Obsidian's co-founder and co-owner Chris A...

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Yesterday Kotaku conducted a community Q&A with Obsidian's co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Chris Avellone, who has ...

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Back in 1996, Interplay and its RPG division Black Isle Studios had plans to develop a Planescape-based role-playing game for...

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Russian RPG-focused website RPGNuke has published an interview with Torment: Tides of Numenera's creative lead Colin McComb. ...

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Dutch website Pixelcake has published an interview with Chris Avellone, and luckily for us, they offer an English version, wh...

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The third part of Matt Barton's interview with Obsidian CEO and head of Interplay's defunct RPG division Feargus Urquhart has...

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After proclaiming it the best RPG of all time, the folks at PC Gamer have republished their old review of the title to verify...

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I'm guessing Chris Avellone (for those who don't remember, co-founder, co-owner and creative director at Obsidian Entertainme...

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The one and only Chris Avellone has taken the time to answer another fistful of questions about his personal likes/dislikes a...

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A celebration is in order if you're an OS X gamer, as GOG.com has announced that Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga, Baldur's G...

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Matt Barton continues his video interview series with Guido Henkel, with this latest 39-minute entry focusing mostly on Plane...

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PCGamesN has published a list of what they consider the best, or at least among the best, PC RPGs of all times, and while I h...

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While there's absolutely no denying that Dungeons & Dragons has had an enormous influence on the video game landscape over th...

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We have rounded up a couple of recent interview with Obsidian Entertainment's creative director and human stretch goal Chris ...

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Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone is front and center in a new 15-minute video interview that the folks at the Super Bu...

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Planescape: Torment and Torment: Tides of Numenera fans will find this editorial on Medium to be of particular interest, as t...

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I have to assume it's "Anon" from Anonymous of Holland who conducted this recent interview with Obsidian Entertainment's Chri...

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There's a quick interview with RPG-designing veteran Guido Henkel on The Nerd Cave this evening, during which the conversati...

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In another one of their "Reinstall" retrospective pieces, the editors at PC Gamer have treated us to another journey back to ...

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A long time ago, well before we ever had a Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter project to pledge toward, designer Colin Mc...

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Talking at a writer's workshop at GDC, and as reported by Shacknews, Obsidian's chief creative officer Chris Avellone has sun...

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Prompted by the crazy success that inXile Entertainment is enjoying with their Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter campaig...

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Speaking with Eurogamer, Wizard of the Coast has admitted that they are open to licensing the Planescape setting and that the...

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While the news that inXile Entertainment's Planescape: Torment spiritual successor will be scored by Mark Morgan was a welcom...

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NowGamer is offering an interview with Brian Fargo on the announced Torment successor set in Monte Cook's Numenera. Most of t...

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Grimuar Sferowca offers an interview with Planescape: Torment and Wasteland 2 writer/designer Colin McComb, focusing on his ...

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In an interview with Eurogamer, Colin McComb shares his communications with Chris Avellone on a possible Torment follow-up fr...

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The folks at RPG Codex did some internet sleuthing and came up with some interesting news: apparently inXile's CEO Brian Farg...

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With the writing stages of Wasteland 2 wrapped up, Colin McComb muses "what's next" and looks back on his career, highlighti...

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Gamasutra is offering a four-page-long chat with Obsidian's creative director Chris Avellone, on subjects such as crowdfundin...

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IndieRPGs.com is offering an interview with RPG veteran Chris Avellone, currently busy at work on inXile's Wasteland 2 and Ob...

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No doubt partially inspired by all the recent talk of a spiritual successor to the title, the folks at Eurogamer have put tog...

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Word has quickly spread of an upcoming rebirth of the famous RPG developer, Black Isle Studios, after the appearance of a bra...

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Our readers are probably familiar with how talkative Chris Avellone can be, so it's not surprising that, when asked by Kotaku...

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Thanks to a tweet from inXile CEO Brian Fargo we learn that Colin McComb, writer on, among other things, Planescape: Torment ...

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Videogame-focused blog Emergency Broadcast System is offering an extensive podcast interview with Obsidian Entertainment's ch...

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Once the Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Editions are behind them, Overhaul Games has revealed that they'd like t...

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BioWare's Infinity Engine is the greatest RPG engine ever created. There, I said it. Sure, it doesn't support true turn-bas...

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I can imagine among the things present in Chris Avellone's daily routine is "reply to yet another interviewer's questions" at...

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Obsidian's creative director Chris Avellone has been answering some fan questions related to Planescape: Torment on his blog,...

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Even though the two compilation packs were technically announced over a month ago, it wasn't until today that Atari sent us o...

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The folks at RPGFan decided it was a good time to go back and replay Black Isle's masterpiece Planescape: Torment and review ...

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Interested in adding signed copies of Planescape: Torment, System Shock 2, Anachronox, Fallout: New Vegas, Star Wars: KotOR I...

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Atari fired over a press release late yesterday announcing plans to release two more retail Dungeons & Dragons bundle packs, ...

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Have you ever wondered who the guy was on Planescape: Torment's cover art? Not the character, that's obviously the Nameless O...

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CD Projekt made several important announcements during the Fall Conference, including the fact that they're approaching their...

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Will Ooi has been publishing a fair number of interviews lately, and after talking with Chris Avellone twice, he had the time...

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Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone has agreed to be subjected to yet another interview, with this latest Q&A rearing its...

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Lists are one of those things we'll never run out of anytime soon, and Matt Barton, of Matt Chat fame, has put online his Top...

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In one of their podcasts the folks at Playable Character interview Obsidian co-founder and creative director Chris Avellone. ...

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Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone continues to field questions about his video game development history around the web,...

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Yet another interview with Obsidian Entertainment creative director and RPG-developing veteran Chris Avellone has surfaced on...

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Rampant Games' Jay Barnson writes on character generation on his blog, and why he doesn't consider it an integral part of the...

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The first installment to a multi-part interview with Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone is up at the Will Ooi blog (and ...

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Following Feargus Urquhart's ponder of a possible Planescape: Torment return and our editorial on the subject, we approached...

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The latest developer interview on the Bethesda Blog is with Obsidian's Scott Everts, a veteran with an impressive pedigree wh...

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In a new three-page "Torment Need Not Be Eternal" editorial, contributor Eric Schwarz examines Planescape: Torment's legacy, ...

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Although the idea of writing a Planescape retrospective has been on my mind for a while now, I didn't want this to be "just a...

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Iron Tower Studio's Vince D. Weller has posted a very interesting interview with Obsidian's co-founder and creative director ...

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While I wouldn't personally get my hopes too high, NowGamer reports that, in his interview on Play Issue 205, Obsidian CEO Fe...

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I'm not even sure that I should mention this article for fear that it will give someone, somewhere, the inkling that bringing...

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It's been awhile since we've seen a retrospective for Black Isle's finest masterpiece, so it's great to see Thunderbolt shari...

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A new blog entry by Incubator Games creative lead Radek Koncewicz on Gamasutra eloquently covers the intricacies involved wit...

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In a piece entitled "With Friends Like These...", Games On Net profiles some of the most memorable companions we've adventure...

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The editors at Dealspwn have penned a retrospective for BioWare and Black Isle's popular Infinity Engine-powered titles, duri...

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The fourth part of Rock Paper Shotgun's The Very Important List of PC Games (to be read as "games we like") is absolutely sto...

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After updating his Formspring feed on multiple occasions throughout 2010, veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer has decided that i...

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Bitmob has moved on to part four of their "Forgotten Ruins: The Roots of CRPGs" editorial series, with this latest entry cove...

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GoGamer is running another 48-hour madness sale (with 31 hours left as of this writing). Titles that might interest GameBansh...

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Most of us are already familiar with the excellent mods available for the Infinity Engine games, but if you need a refresher,...

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Lightspeed Magazine interviews Obsidian senior designer Chris Avellone on his "video game author" career, discussing how he g...

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Following their retrospective review of Baldur's Gate, the editors at Mana Pool have turned their attention to Planescape: To...

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Now that Planescape: Torment is available on Good Old Games, it comes as no surprise that the game is getting some much-deser...

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A great addition coming from their Hasbro/Atari deal, Planescape: Torment is now available on Good Old Games for $9.99. As ex...

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Everyone's favorite RPG designer, Chris Avellone, has once again taken to his blog over on the official Obsidian Entertainmen...

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Hellmode has kicked up another interesting editorial, this time elaborating on how certain role-playing games have successful...

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Russian website GameStar has an interview with Obsidian Entertainment senior developer and co-founder Chris Avellone, talking...

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We haven't seen a retrospective feature for Planescape: Torment since last November, so the editors at RPGFan felt it was tim...

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I suppose you could consider this six-page article-style interview with Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone on gamesTM a ...

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The second half of Matt Barton's video interview with Chris Avellone is now available, and this time the conversation focuses...

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Using Fallout and Planescape: Torment as examples of RPGs that truly present players with choice and Fallout 3 and The Elder ...

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In his latest round of answers on social website formspring.me, Obsidian Entertainment designer Josh Sawyer addresses questio...

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Obsidian Entertainment designer Josh Sawyer continues to address the bombardment of fan-submitted questions he apparently rec...

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The latest episode of Matt Barton's "Matt Chat" video series features the first half of an interview with the one-and-only Ch...

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PCAction.de has conducted their own interview with Obsidian's Chris Avellone, chatting with the designer and company co-found...

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Obsidian Entertainment designer Josh Sawyer has once again returned to formspring.me to answer fan-submitted questions, with ...

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Since the original article is in French, Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone has published the English version of an inte...

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German website PCGames.de has profiled twenty excellent PC games that unfortunately didn't reach the financial success that t...

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Obsidian Entertainment designer Josh Sawyer is now a member of social website formspring.me, and has used the platform to sta...

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Obsidian's Chris Avellone has returned to his blog to answer another question about game design and provide some tips on how ...

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Former GameSpot executive editor Greg Kasavin has kicked off a "Truth, Love, and Courage" blog (the name of which is inspired...

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Eurogamer had the opportunity to sit down with Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone for a hefty four-page interview about ...

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The A.V. Club caught up with Chris Avellone at GDC for a lengthy interview about his career, his design philosophy, his work...

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Recruiting firm TS2 has announced their pick for the "Most Successful & Respected" executive producer in the video game indus...

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In a new feature entitled "Sequel, Spin Off, Start Over, or Stay Dead?", the editors at Diehard GameFAN have each weighed in ...

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Eurogamer has conjured up an entertaining four-page article that spotlights the video games that have successfully introduced...

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Following their Baldur's Gate retrospective, Resolution Magazine has now decided to give us a two-page history lesson on Blac...

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Grupo97 has published a pretty good interview with Obsidian's Chris Avellone, covering such topics as Alpha Protocol, plot co...

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According to this listing on Amazon UK, new boxed versions of Baldur's Gate (+ ToSC), Baldur's Gate II (+ ToB), Icewind Dale ...

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Veteran RPG designer Chris Avellone took a moment out of his busy day to answer quite a few fan-submitted design questions on...

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The folks over at Games On Net decided to dig Planescape: Torment out of their closet and see how Black Isle's masterpiece...

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As part of a global conspiracy intricately designed to ensure that the game never gets deleted from my hard drive, Eurogamer ...

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After stumbling upon the fan-made high resolution mods for the Infinity Engine series and early Fallout titles, Ars Technica ...

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Following yesterday's interview with lead designer Chris Avellone, we tracked down lead programmer Dan Spitzley to run the sa...

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Planescape: Torment was released on November 30th, 1999, making it just shy of six years old at the time of this writing. Th...

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