The latest episode of Matt Barton's Matt Chat show features George MacDonald who, back in the '80s, designed the superhero Ch...
Following the recent Steam release of SSI's Gold Box games, we get this PC Gamer article that takes them out for a spin and s...
The Gold Box Classics bundle, originally scheduled for a March 25, 2022 release, is now available on Steam. The bundle consis...
If you wouldn't mind having a whole heap of Gold Box games in your Steam library, come March 25, 2022 you'll be able to purch...
If you're reading this, there's a good chance you know all about the long and storied history of D&D-based video games, a...
What looks to be the final part of The Digital Antiquarian’s “Opening the Gold Box” series of posts takes a close look ...
Ten years ago, Matt Barton recorded a short video where he talked about SSI's “Gold Box” RPG Pool of Radiance. That littl...
Richard Cobbett seems to be done with RPG Scrollbars for the foreseeable future. No more weekly arachnophobic and crafting-ha...
Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from ...
An editorial on PCGamesN takes a look at the symbiotic relationship between the behemoth of tabletop roleplaying, Dungeons &a...
The Digital Antiquarian has editorialized about the "Deadly Sins of CRPG Design", using a considerable number of examples fro...
While a good portion of the article is devoted to Planescape: Torment and its recently released Enhanced Edition, this "A Mod...
The second part of IGN's Top 100 RPGs has been revealed. Entries 61-80 include a disproportionate number of Japanese games wi...
The advancements they made in Curse of the Azure Bonds, player reception to Secret of the Silver Blades, the major drop in sa...
A while back there was an editorial describing how side quests erode everything that makes RPGs great. Now, because we are go...
At the tail end of Matt Barton's most recent "Matt Chat" installment, he brings word of two lesser known tools that immediate...
In a lengthy editorial, The CRPG Addict provides an in-depth analysis of "why the economy sucks in the SSI Gold Box games", w...
WatchMojo.com has compiled a top 10 of Western role-playing games published during the 80s and 90s, which excludes MMORPGs an...
The Gold Box games have always been one of the few blind spots in GOG's impressive Dungeons & Dragons catalog of games un...
Continuing on from the first segment of his historical CRPG piece, TechRaptor's Robert Grosso has brought us part two of "Pla...
It's really tough for me to swallow the idea of the original Wizardry, Might and Magic, or even the recently-talked-about Dra...
Matt Barton has published the fourth and last part of his interview with Susan Manley, in which Barton asks questions that fo...
The 3DO console, its inception under Trip Hawkins, its ultimate demise, and project management as a whole are the primary top...
Matt Barton has published the second part of his interview with Susan Manley, which covers Manley's education, the start of h...
In the first installment to a multi-part "Matt Chat" video interview with veteran SSI and Electronic Arts artist Susan Manley...
Some excellent news emerged this weekend by way of a press release announcing the establishment of a new studio called Tactic...
The nostalgic fellows at World 1-1 have been busy cranking out retrospectives for many of the AD&D-based titles that SSI deve...
The fourth and final installment to Matt Barton's video interview with SSI president Joel Billings is now available as Matt C...
The third and latest part of Matt Barton's interview with SSI's Joel Billings deals with the developer's Gold Box RPG series,...
Matt Barton has published the second part of his Joel Billings interview (you can find the first part here). This time it cov...
Our friend Matt Barton managed to track down Strategic Simulations, Inc. founder Joel Billings for a lengthy video interview,...
The editors over at PCMag.com have cranked out a set of ten brief profiles for some of the classic role-playing games from th...
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...
Veteran RPG enthusiasts will no doubt remember playing through a majority of the video games listed in GamePro's "RPG Pillars...
Video games blogger and CRPG enthusiast CRPG Addict wrote a lengthy blog post on the differences between turn-based combat sy...
Bitmob is taking a stab at spotlighting the 30-year history of computer role-playing games in a new series of retrospectives ...
Tales of the Rampant Coyote's Jay Barnson continues to summarize the design lessons that he took away from several classic CR...