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=14562 The Witcher site is pointing out a new adventure mod called Medical Problems, hosted at ModDB.  Here's the description: Description: Shani needs help fighting an epidemic of a new, unknown sickness. But what could a monster slayer possibly do about a medical problem? The game has several different possible endings, depending on which choices you make while playing.... 2010-03-10T22:43:07+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14561 GDC 2010: A Glimpse at BioWare's Philosophy on RPGs comes from a GDC presentation on localising large RPGs.  The article starts with a look at some of the stats and word counts and ties this back to the discussion on whether Mass Effect 2 is an RPG or not: From what I've read, the average 300 page novel clocks in at approximately 75,000 words.... 2010-03-10T22:38:30+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14560 During a promotional event held in Germany last week, fansite for Dragon Age: Origins, Grey Wardens, talked to Fernando Melo, Biowares online producer. The interview moves in different directions, but here's a snip where Fernando speaks about the fiasco that was Return to Ostagar: The delayed release of Return to Ostagar caused a fair amount of drama within the community.... 2010-03-10T18:14:41+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14559 King's Bounty: Armored Princess is being released by UK publisher, Focus Multimedia for retail sale in the UK.  It will be in stores March 19th 2010. GamaSutra has the full press release: March 2010 - Focus Multimedia, one of the UK's leading PC games and software publishers, is bringing the smash hit adventure RPG King's Bounty: Armored Princess to UK retail for the very first time.... 2010-03-10T17:51:42+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14558 According to a Tweet that VG247 picked up, Stephanie D'Astous, boss of Eidos Montreal flustered this in the tweet: leaving tomorrow for GDC-SFO, i advise everyone to log-onto IGN thursday the 11th march at around 20:30 PST ... little surprise from DX3! Apparently, announcing that there'll be an announcement is how marketing is done today.... 2010-03-10T17:25:42+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14557 The company behind Grim Dawn has updated their site with the first screenshots from the game. The game is still very early in development as this disclaimer shows: Please note that developers do not usually allow their audience to see a game this early in development while the art is still in such a rough, unpolished state.... 2010-03-10T16:55:08+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14556 You can find seven new screenshots for Diablo III at Hooked Gamers. They show the witch doctor and wizard in action. They were apparently handed during the Game Developer's Conference. 2010-03-10T16:48:54+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14555 The official dtp YouTube channel features the first three of four planned making of videos for Drakensang: The River of Time. In German, as usual. Here's the 3rd one. The other clips can be found nearby, as well as a TV special, a TV spot and a creature guide.... 2010-03-10T15:26:20+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14554 GameSpot's On the Spot video feature sees Bio Brand Manager David Silverman demonstrating Awakening.  There's around 8 minutes of footage and discussion, so well worth a look. 2010-03-09T21:54:42+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14553 A new free DLC from the dripfeed has been released for Mass Effect 2 - the Arc Projector heavy weapon: Attention all Cerberus Network members: The Arc Projector heavy weapon has been deployed for field use. The Arc Projector is capable of discharging a massive electrical blast that can jump to multiple targets.... 2010-03-09T21:49:57+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14552 GameBanshee catches up with BioWare's Ferret Baudoin to discuss Awakening: GB: By the time a character reaches level 20 in the base game, there really aren't any desirable talents left to choose from. How do you intend to keep things fresh and ensure that we have plenty of appealing advancement options when the level cap is raised even further? How many more spells and other talents are you implementing in the expansion? Will these fall under the existing talent trees (Archery, Entropy, Two-Handed, etc.... 2010-03-09T21:48:19+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14551 Diehard GameFan has the most detailed X360 review of Risen I can recall, although their scoring system seems a bit uneven.  Ultimately the game is praised for RPG fans but criticised as unappealing to the console mainstream: Risen is the sort of game that will appeal to diehard fans of the action RPG genre, as there’s enough good elements to the game to make it enjoyable, but it’s more than likely to put off more console-oriented fans because of its obtuse nature and more casual fans because of its stylistic and mechanical issues.... 2010-03-09T21:41:48+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14550 GameBanshee writes in about a press release they received from German bitComposer Games, announcing the acquisition of the Jagged Alliance license and the development of (a new) Jagged Alliance 3.  You may recall Strategy First spent a long time fumbling around with failed Russian partnerships - hopefully bitComposer can do better, though nothing is know about the actual development team or goals at this stage.... 2010-03-09T21:32:51+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14549 This week's update for DoubleBear's Zombie RPG brings news about the characters and their clothing. It is done via Iron Tower Studios, who hosts the game: Since the team is rather small, we can't do a lot of characters. It's so small, in fact, that we're only going to do two, a male and a female version (personally, I like to call them Zombob and Zombette).... 2010-03-09T16:25:47+01:00 http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?rwsiteid=1&newsbit=14548 A hands on preview for Dragon Age: The Awakening can be found at Inc Gamers. They seem to think that more of the same is a good thing. Their focus is on Vigil's Keep which they find very different from the original Dragon Age game -  (some spoilers to follow): Once you fend off the Darkspawn in the initial attack you're granted control of it and, indeed, the title of Arl, essentially making you the ruler of Amaranthine.... 2010-03-09T15:56:26+01:00