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Lord British is now Lord Blockchain The RPG pioneer’s next game Effigy embraces the tech, but with many caveats. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Richard Garriott is one of the most influential and successful RPG designers in history. He’ll be forever associated with the Ultima series, which he began in 1981 with what is considered both a pioneering work for RPG design and the first open world game....

Remembering Starglider, the flight sim series that gave rise to Star Fox We’re rerunning Richard Cobbett’s classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. From 2010 to 2014Richard Cobbettwrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light....

Richard Garriott recalls his early career and ‘favourite love-hate fan’ Donald Blinky “Why you let some freak halfwit write this piece of crap will forever be beyond me.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Richard Garriott about his new MMO project, Effigy. Garriott comes into this project with an incredible RPG legacy, and one that is perhaps a little under-appreciated in the contemporary scene....

Star Fox actor comes out of retirement for a Half-Life 2 mod that replaces Alyx with a sexy blue fox Estelle Ellis, the original voice of Krystal, hasn’t voiced a game character since 2005, but came back for this mod. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. If you’ve ever thought to yourself that the one thing that could make Half-Life 2 better is a sexy blue fox in place of Alyx Vance, you’ve probably played Gagnetar’sAlyx Replacement mod for Half-Life 2that swaps out Eli Vance’s daughter for Krystal, the primary heroine of the Star Fox series....

Stylish roguelike card game Iris and the Giant is free on GOG GOG’s Indie Spring Sale is live now and runs until April 18. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Iris and the Giantis a stylish, occasionally sad roguelike card game about a young woman confronting her inner demons and broken memories as she climbs a metaphorical mountain to confront the raging giant at the top....

The New York Times has put the kibosh on another Wordle Archive A major hurdle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Wordle Archive, the popular repository for retiredWordlepuzzles, has been shut down after a request from The New York Times. Created in January by computational biologist Devang Thakkar, Wordle Archive enabled errant players of the daily word game to complete previous puzzles they had either missed or failed....

This horror fishing game is only 4 minutes long but still managed to scare me Lure is a very short free horror game, but it’s plenty scary. And it gave me a good laugh, too. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The premise of Lure is simple. It has to be.This free horror fishing game on Steamtakes about four minutes to finish, so there’s not a lot of room to cram in characters, plot, story, or anything else....