http://www.rpgwatch.com?rwsiteid=1 Watching out for news at RPGWatch http://www.rpgwatch.com?rwsiteid=1 http://www.rpgwatch.com/images/default.gif http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9027 Gamespot had had a look at an early build of Gothic 4 giving a little more info on the game.Arcania picks up ten years after the events of Gothic 3. The Nameless Hero from the original games has vanquished the orcs from the land and has ascended to the throne.... 2008-05-17T03:24:10+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9026 A minor item but if you call past the Spiderweb forums and find them down, apparently an update went badly awry:We have run into serious problems upgrading our site forums. Basically, to run the new forum software, our web-host provider had to upgrade our account.... 2008-05-16T23:15:44+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9025 Rampant Coyote's Indies of the Round Table again tracks down Thomas Riegsecker, Stevel Peeler, Vince D. Weller, Jason Compton and others and this time asks about emotion in RPGs.  Vince's famous sarcasm is on offer for those wanting a laugh but let's take a serious answer from Jason Compton, because we don't get to hear enough about The Broken Hourglass these days (yes, that's a hint ;) ):Yes, we're certainly looking to evoke emotional responses.... 2008-05-16T23:13:06+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9024 Taken from Edge magazine, Next Gen joins the Fallout 3 preview crowd:"War never changes,” grumbles ubiquitous voiceover favorite Ron Perlman in Fallout 3’s opening cinematic. Of course, the one major bugbear among diehard fans of previous turn-based Fallout games is that war has actually changed rather substantially with the coming sequel.... 2008-05-16T23:07:58+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9023 Bioware's latest goes gold (for the PC) and Blue's News has the press release notes.BioWare announced today that the award-winning action role-playing game (RPG) Mass Effect for PC, published by Electronic Arts, has gone into manufacturing. Mass Effect will be available in North America on May 28, 2008 and June 6, 2008 to European retailers.... 2008-05-16T22:25:31+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9021 Akella's gallery for Cinemax's mythologically-based  action rpg Numen posts 5 new screenshots focusing on some of the monsters and adversaries in the game. You can check them out here.  2008-05-16T18:25:39+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9020 GamersHell has added a couple of screenshots to their gallery for the FPS/RPG from Deep Shadows, White Gold. You can see them and all the media they've got going for the game here. 2008-05-16T18:17:24+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9019 IGN caught up with Dr. Ray Muzyka of Bioware at the EA Spring Break event in San Francisco, California recently and took the opportunity to ask him a few questions on Mass Effect, Dragon Age and PC gaming in general. Here's an except from the Dragon Age coverage:"Dragon Age has been in development for a while," said Muzyka.... 2008-05-16T18:10:07+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9013 Eurogamer's Rob Fahey has a preview up of Dungeon Hero.More importantly, Firefly wants to use that setting to explore the whole idea of an underground world. The "dungeons" in the game are subterranean cities, living and breathing, in which the goblins live, work and fight.... 2008-05-16T13:50:46+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9011 Brother None has whipped up a preview of the latest build of Mount&Blade for GameBanshee.  Here's a sample:Mounted combat is when fighting starts becoming something special. Damage is calculated based on your skill, what kind of weapon you have, the opponents armor and what kind of spot you hit, but it can also get enormous speed bonuses.... 2008-05-16T13:02:35+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9010 Adam Adamowicz has penned a lengthy dev diary for the Fallout 3 official site, describing the process of envisioning the concept art.  It probably feels late in the dev cycle to focus on concept art but it is an interesting piece that gives insight into the artist's thoughts:The Vault SuitDesigning, or redesigning the vault suit meant adhering to canon, and updating the textures and tactile feel for the detail we can achieve now in games.... 2008-05-15T23:06:20+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9009 Yep, v5.3 of the Unofficial Patch/mod for Vampire: Bloodlines is out.  Here are the notes from The Patches Scrolls: v5.3 15.05.2008 ---- +Tweaked new stealth rules and made rating visible at Tawni's place. +Made first person view melee fighting possible, thanks to Offkorn.... 2008-05-15T22:58:46+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9008 1UP has  what they refer to as a "weird science" feature article up on some technology that may --or may not--influence future PC gaming. Here's some of the intro:...so we present for your consideration six emerging technologies that might change the way you play PC games in the future.... 2008-05-15T20:05:41+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9007 GamersHell has eleven new screens on display from TaleWorlds' and Paradox Interactive's Mount & Blade. You can check them out here, and they're also up in a slightly different format at Worthplaying. 2008-05-15T19:44:01+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=9006 RPGVault posts their latest look at the mythogically-inspired action rpg from Cinemax and Akella, Numen:Contest of Heroes, focusing this time on sidequests and NPC interaction. ( I couldn't take writing that name one more time without wondering what the heck it meant, so I looked it up, and a numen is defined as a "divine power or spirit; a deity, esp.... 2008-05-15T19:35:42+01:00