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Audio RPG: The Bard’s Tale

December 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Like other fully-fledged RPGs, in The Bard’s Tale, you recruit and customise companions to build a better party and enjoy pretty impressive player freedom. Unlike other computer RPGs, you can play this entirely with your voice.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: alexa, audio games, InXile

Future fantasy: A first look at Tides of Numenera

September 20, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The unofficial sequel to Planescape: Torment and official computer RPG for Monte Cooke’s Numenera is Torment: Tides of Numenera. You can watch 3 minutes of “pre-alpha footage” here. That’s awfully early in the cycle but it still looks good. What you get in your 3 preview are clips for choice-based focus of the game and […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: InXile, Monte Cook, Numenera, previews, Torment: Tides of Numenera

Numenera goes on pre-order with big discount

May 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook’s latest setting Numenera has the weight of the world on it. The RPG was announced last year, after Cook had quit the DnD Next project. The Kickstarter asked for $20,000 and raised $517,255 from 4,658 backers. Bigger money followed. As a “sequel” to Planescape: Torment, Brian Fargo and inXile, launched Torment: Tides of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: D&D Next, drivethrurpg, InXile, Monte Cook, Numenera, Torment: Tides of Numenera

Torment: Tides of Numenera breaks Ouya’s $1m record

March 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Brian Fargo and Monte Cook’s Torment: Tides of Numenera has raised more than $1,000,000 and it took less than 7 hours. It funded, hitting the $900,000 mark, in about six hours. Back in July Kickstarter published top 10 quickest campaigns to hit $1m and it is closer than you might think. The Ouya, the tiny […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: InXile, kickstarters, Monte Cook, Numenera, Planescape Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera

What does one life matter? Torment: Tides of Numenera kickstarts

March 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/ [Back this Campaign] Planescape: Torment was awesome. The buzz when “Numenera: Torment” was announced was very loud indeed. Today the inevitable has happened the team up Brian Fargo and Monte Cook has launched on Kickstarter. The game is called Torment: Tides of Numenera and it’s asking for $900,000. $900,000 is a lot. While I […]

Filed Under: PC, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: InXile, kickstarters, Monte Cook, Numenera, Planescape Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera

Monte Cook’s Numenera becomes Planescape: Torment sequel

January 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I think the best computer roleplaying game I’ve ever played was Planescape: Torment. Skyrim is great but Planescape: Torment was special. It looks like the stars have aligned and there will be a follow up. Wizards of the Coast have carefully guarded the rights to Planescape and the original Black Isle studio close. Makes it […]

Filed Under: PC, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: InXile, kickstarters, Monte Cook, Numenera, Planescape Torment, wizards of the coast

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge – Bethesda announces new RPG

March 15, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bethesda (full name Bethesda Softworks) is the company responsible for The Elder Scrolls CRPG. It is responsible for Fallout. You can see why I keep an eye on Bethesda to see if they’ll do a new RPG. Announced at this year’s GDC is the two-player, third person, RPG called Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. The game […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Bethesda, InXile

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