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A Decade of Playing, Running, and Writing About Pathfinder
Paizo released Pathfinder in August 2009, so while it’s technically a product of the last decade, the game’s impact wasn’t clear until this ...
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Action Platformer Foregone Combines Elements of Diablo, Dark Souls, and Dead Cells
London, Canada-based studio Big Blue Bubble is primarily known for the casual mobile game My Singing Monsters, but they’re currently working on an ...
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Introduce Your Kids to Roleplaying with Magical Kitties Save the Day
Atlas Games has spent the last several years revitalizing popular tabletop roleplaying games from the ‘90s including Ars Magica and Unknown Armies. Now ...
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Blast Your Way Through Space in the Arcade-Style Shooter Project Aether
Toronto-based Sleepy Spider Studios launched in 2016 with the turn-based fantasy digital card game Legions of Tyrandel. For its second outing, the studio ...
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Enemy On Board Is an Increasingly Violent Social Deception Game
When former Riot Games designer Colin Feo decided to start his own studio, he sought out co-founders he could trust to be honest ...
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How an Illustrator Made the Mystery Game The Crimson Diamond by Mistake
Julia Minamata didn’t start out wanting to make a game. After graduating in 2007 with a degree in illustration from Sheridan College in ...
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Darksiders Genesis’ New Perspective Is Rooted in Its Past – Cover Story
Welcome to the first Escapist Cover Story! This is a new project for us here where we combine big exclusive hands-on previews with ...
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Vampire: The Masquerade Expandable Card Game: Renegade President Shares His Vision
In 1994, Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield released his second collectible card game, the questionably named Jyhad. Inspired by White Wolf’s Vampire: ...
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Dauntless Cross-Play Has Ballooned the Player Base to 15 Million
Since Phoenix Labs launched the closed beta for the co-op action RPG Dauntless in August 2017, the developers have been focused on giving ...
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Genesis: Battle of Champions Inverts the Standard CCG Rules
Most collectible card games are about building up an engine. Whether it’s playing one land per turn in Magic: The Gathering or the ...
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Little Nightmares II Will Empower Players to ‘Improvise’ Their Survival
Tarsier Studios senior narrative designer Dave Mervik didn’t have particularly high expectations for Little Nightmares when it was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment ...
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Monstrum II Devs Say the Sea Is the Perfect Place for a Horror Game
The team at Junkfish loves watching streamers and Let’s Play-ers hide while playing their procedurally generated survival horror game Monstrum, holding their breath ...