Into the Mother Lands interview: Twitch invests in an RPG show led by people of color
Critical Role has played an important role in the rise of actual play RPG livestreams and podcasts, turning these from a niche to a...
Cryptic Studios interview: Surviving Atari, working with Wizards, and a changing business model
Cryptic Studios is entering its third decade in the massively multiplayer online game market, where it started (like everyone else) in paid subscriptions before...
The D20 Beat: Baldur’s Gate III hints at the next gen of old-school RPGs
Flexibility is a hallmark of Larian Studios‘ design in its Divinity: Original Sin series. The stories offer branching paths, your companions change how you...
Cryptic Studios interview: Reflecting on 20 years of adventures, starships, and superheroes
Cyptic Studios has been around since 2000. It’s home is Los Gatos, California, a small suburb of San Jose. It’s near the heart of...
The D20 Beat: The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk’s humor doesn’t hit my funny bone
I’ve long embraced humor in my role-playing games. The Bard Tale’s IV is among my favorite RPGs of the past few years, and I’m...
SideQuest raises $650,000 for testing apps and games for Oculus Quest
Sideloading platform SideQuest is taking $650K in early investment from BoostVC, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, and The Fund. The relatively small preseed funding will...
Sensor Tower: These genres are thriving in the $2 billion U.S. mobile-RPG market
The game industry continues to show off how it’s benefiting from the pandemic. This time, it’s mobile role-playing games bringing in more dough, according...
If the U.S. Post Office has an ally, it’s Duel2 and play-by-mail games
In these fast-moving times where nothing takes a break, there is one form of slow-motion entertainment that has endured: play-by-mail games. The genre refers...
Oculus Quest 2 getting Infinite Office with Logitech keyboard and adjustable passthrough
While presented as a new experience, what we see in the Infinite Office trailer is actually an evolution of the current Quest interface, introduced as...
PlayStation leads in TV ad impressions, but Square Enix is close behind
Gaming industry TV ad impressions saw an 87.71% increase from mid-August to mid-September, compared to the previous 30-day period. From August 16 through September...