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• Umläut: Game of Metal

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 483
  “ Long of hair and tight of pants, you join the ranks of Metal in your quest for babes, booze and glory. Try to Make It Big and hunt down an elusive record contract.” Umläut: Game of Metal is an interesting looking RPG about forming a heavy metal band.  The system is GM-less, and relies on the person to the ...
  6 hours ago

• The Desire

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 483
  Nevermet Press , a project of RPG bloggers turned publishers, has released its first Dungeons & Dragons PDF product, an in-depth look at the villain known as The Desire . Background on this manipulative madame and her political intrigues is accompanied by details for three encounters, the Highcourt city setting, ...
  7 hours ago

• Mass Effect 2 cast includes a couple of names you didnt expect

  
  Fidgit Atom Feed — Authority: 569
  Electronic Arts announced the cast for Mass Effect 2 , which consists mostly of the usual suspects. However, a couple of names stand out. See anything unusual in this cast list? The game features Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Martin Sheen ("The West Wing", "Apocalypse Now"), 2009 Emmy Award-winner ...
  12 hours ago

• High crunch

  
  Disambiguation — Authority: 127
  For those familiar with RPG jargon, the Hero System is a high-crunch tactical simulationist design with point-allocation char-gen. If you dont know what that means, put it this way: The two-volume Sixth Edition rulebook has 775 pages. In many important ways, this game violates the old-school aesthetic, which prizes ...
  14 hours ago

• Is this the box art for long-awaited ‘Stargate Worlds’ game?

  
  Nerdvana: Sci-fi, comics, games & more — Authority: 478
  Tucked in a corner of the homepage for FireSky/Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment’s just-announced Stargate Resistance shooter is a graphic link to the product page for their long-awaited MMO Stargate Worlds – with what looks very much like box art for the game. Resistance creative consultant Chris ...
  1 day ago

• ‘Star Trek Online’ pre-order perks include a free ship

  
  Nerdvana: Sci-fi, comics, games & more — Authority: 478
  GameStop is offering some cool perks for customers who pre-order Star Trek Online through them. Early adopters who reserve the MMORPG at $49.99 will launch their five-year mission with the GameStop exclusive Constitution- class starship, the same type of wessel seen in the original Star Trek TV series with ...
  1 day ago

• Kingdom of Kroz kassettes

  
  Video Gaming Blog — Authority: 131
  Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia BitsThese were some of the first games made by 3D Realms at the time they first began business as Apogee. Here’s a short filming of the first installment:Here’s a video of the second game:And here’s a special review tape:It was a very basic quest game where you play an ...
  1 day ago

• Zelda’s Spirit Tracks

  
  Video Gaming Blog — Authority: 131
  Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia BitsA new entry in the famous Zelda franchise cometh to light:It’s easy to take a series like “The Legend of Zelda” for granted. The first game arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and with more than a dozen releases over 23 years, even the most dedicated ...
  1 day ago

• First Final Fantasy XIII Review Is In

  
  Nerdles — Authority: 153
  Famitsu have reviewed Square Enix’s highly anticipated Final Fantasy XIII and scored it a whopping 39/40.Well, that’s what the Internet is saying.Still, with Japan’s obsession with RPGs and a particular affection for the Final Fantasy series, a 39/40 score seems about right.Pre-order Final Fantasy XIII ...
  1 day ago

• The best of WoW.com: December 1-8, 2009

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 780
  Filed under: RPGs , Meta (about Joystiq) , MMO Its patch day again in the World of Warcraft , and that means theres a whole bunch of upgrades and updates and brand new challenges, quests and things to do in the most successful MMO ever made. Joystiqs sister site WoW.com has all the patch 3.3 info youd ...
  1 day ago

• What Kind of Gamer Are You, According to Science?

  
  Asylum — Authority: 728
  Filed under: Entertainment , Games , Weird Science As young and aspiring gamers, most of us probably didnt think much about how or why we played the games we did, we just played. Blowing chunks at the latest action shooter? You might naturally try your hand at a role-playing game. Simple logic. ... Read more ...
  2 days ago

• Blood of the Innocent RPG Review

  
  Flames Rising Horror Webzine — Authority: 426
  Available at RPGNow.com Published by StoryWeaver Written by Joshua Edwards and Joseph Sweeney Say what you will about the Savage Worlds setting, but I find it possesses one of the more engaging mass combat systems. I’ve been guilty of not using it to its highest potential in some of my campaigns; however, ...
  2 days ago

• New Dragon Age PC Patch Fixes Bugs, Makes Things More Balanced

  
  StuffWeLike.com — Authority: 133
  Hit the jump for a full changelog and download link!Dragon Age: Origins just got patched to version 1.02, a much-needed patch as while the earlier patch reduced difficulty slightly, the game was still unforgivingly unrelenting. This patch helps alleviate the grim difficulty a bit, and fixes some bugs too. Take a look ...
  2 days ago

• Dungeon Hunter – iPhone

  
  N81blogger.com — Authority: 104
  When the darkness awoke, evil flooded over the land of Gothicus. Dispel the darkness in your realm, uncover your memory about terrible events and fight the evil queen who tyrannizes the kingdom the queen you loved. Dungeon Hunter is a 3D epic quest set in a dark fantasy world, in the tradition of the most successful ...
  3 days ago

• Nerd News in Brief

  
  Hipster, please!: +1 blog of nerd music & culture — Authority: 113
  I am pleased to report that Church, Matt, Jason and I have finally unraveled one of lifes great mysteries. We have concluded, after weeks of preliminary testing, that Google Wave exists solely to aid in the creation of my regular Nerd News in Brief segment. Now you know. And speaking of, Ive still got a bunch of ...
  3 days ago

• Chatty’s Ptolus 4e Demo: A Tail of Two Shities, Part 1

  
  Musings of the Chatty DM — Authority: 113
  (This series title was chosen by the players, you have been warned) As announced here , I organized a D&D 4e demo for 4 members of the Mindnight’s Lair local RPG forum. I didn’t want to do a big D&D 4e lecture upfront, and I didn’t have to, most players had either played it once before (with me, at a ...
  3 days ago

• Yesterday’s Tomorrow

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 483
  “ Action, Mystery, Romance, and Science! ” Not just the slogan, those are also the character attributes (nominally “Styles”) in John Wick’s latest RPG, Yesterday’s Tomorrow . It’s a retro-science fiction adventure game, available now in what John’s calling the Pulp Edition. In other words, free. Like ...
  3 days ago

• Fantasy Craft Character Options

  
  Purple Pawn — Authority: 483
  Crafty Games has released the next three character class supplements in the Call to Arms series and they are Deadeye , Martial Artist , and Monk . Deadeye describes an archer, hunter, assassin, or sniper—the one who specializes in ranged combat. Martial Artist and Monk are an interesting pair, as in many other ...
  4 days ago

• Sex and free choice in the age of dragons

  
  Nerdvana: Sci-fi, comics, games & more — Authority: 478
  BioWare and Electronic Arts have sparked another stir with their depiction of sex in video games. A couple of years back, Bioware’s Xbox 360/Windows PC roleplaying game Mass Effect was the subject of a (right wing) media firestorm for the briefest hints of a sex scene that results from the game’s complex ...
  4 days ago

• Game Deal Roundup from Purple Pawn » RPGs

  
  RPG Bloggers — Authority: 166
  Sophistigames, a board game social networking site, is giving away a free game (your pick on eBay, up to $50) to a registered user. (source)FunAgain’s holiday sale has a few great deals. (source) E.g. Steam for $30.Fantasy Flight’s holiday sale ends Monday. (source) E.g. Beowulf for... [...]
  5 days ago

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