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In the World of Darkness series of pen-and-paper role-playing games, when your character dies there's no coming back. According to a panel run by the developers at last weekend's Grand Masquerade, permadeath will carry over to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game as well. More »
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When I was twelve years old my friends and I attempted to decipher the mysteries of Dungeons & Dragons. As I recall, the game we ended up playing involved us hitting each other with sticks. If only we had James Stowe's child-friendly D&D character sheets. More »
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Commenter Mudson has spent his life in fear of the glory that is turn based role-playing games. Now he's overcome that silly fear and wants to know what he's been missing in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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World of Warcraft players be wary. Big Brother may be watching. Game developers may start paying closer attention to your gameplay in order to predict your next move. More »
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Where would we be if there were no roles to play, no experience points to earn, and no levels to gain? Well we certainly wouldn't be here, looking over the biggest role-playing games of E3 2011. More »
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Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband's name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she's a married mother that stays home with the kids. More »
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In the original Guild Wars being human was a requirement. In the sequel being human is a choice. This week ArenaNet is taking an in-depth look at what it means to be human in Guild Wars 2. More »
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Today we celebrate the birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien, the English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor whose contributions to English literature forever changed the way we imagine fantasy worlds. More »
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Here's a closer look at Darkspore, an action game that seems to neatly blend the best bits of Diablo and Spore. More »
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I might seem like a friendly sort of fellow, ready and wiling to share his newly-acquired technology with the world, but really I'm just the asshole at Starbucks with the iPad. More »
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BioWare is giving players a whole new old way to experience Dragon Age: Origins, announcing a pen and paper role-playing game based in the Dragon Age universe. More »
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Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the founding fathers of the role-playing genre, Dave Arneson has passed away at the age of 61. More »
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The game that launched a thousand role-playing games toady celebrates its latest incarnation as Wizards of the Coast announces the release of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Rulebooks. The new set of rules not only herald a more streamlined D&D experience, but also the first true joining of pen & paper D&D to the online world with the introduction of the D&D Insider service, which gives players and Dungeon Masters alike access to online tools for character creation, dungeon building, and even a digital game table to play on. In honor of the release of the three books - The Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide - the D&D Insider service will be available for a free promotional period, after which a subscription will kick in. The books are currently available for $34.95 a piece, or in a bundle for $104.95. More »
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What, with Maple Story, the DS is proving to be the handheld for Korean RPGs. And now? Ragnarok Online will be hitting the Japanese DSes sometime in 2008. At an Akihabara press conference with Ragnarok publisher Gungho Online, the game was announced as well two other DS titles: fish game Sakana to Asobou! and a flower arranging game. The DS Ragnarok will be an action RPG in real-time that will use Nintendo WiFi. Traditionally pc focused, Gungho Online has been refocusing its strategy and is developing games for the DS as well as the PSP. These are baby steps towards console gaming, but this is a company to watch. More »
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MMO-focused research website The Daedalus Project has a 7-page feature on the hows and whys of those who invest a little more in their adventures than the average PvP server player (who is 14 years old, tipes lik ths lol, wears a black trenchoat and white sneakers, and slyly uses his mom's mascara to darken the peachfuzz on his upper lip). More »
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Is this guy, Lord Recluse. Even though I don't play CoV, seeing MMO uber bosses is still pretty exciting, especially when you consider the work the playerbase puts in to the games. Couple more pics after the jump. More »
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For some addicts players, it's been a year of gaming in Azeroth. From login queues to begging for new servers to having your class broken before your very eyes, it's the ups and downs of an MMO. Admittedly, here in Detroit, I missed the WoW craze when it launched. I was all about Halo 2. Then, I installed this infernal game March 9 and have since logged something like 77 days played on my main. Gross. More »
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By no stretch of the imagination is this the first Nancy Drew computer game, but it's definitely a head scratcher. I can't figure out who exactly this game is aimed at. Junior high school students? Middle-aged women? If old ladies are like using the word "cute" to describe the Hardy Boys, I am, like, so going to puke. More »
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