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The 20-Year Time Capsule: A Review of Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar

Release Date: August 4, 2017 Developer Name: Golden Era Games (Cleveland Mark Blakemore) Get It On: GOG In the fast-moving world of gaming, we usually measure "long-term projects" in five…

Chris February 15, 2026

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The Ultimate Flip-Side: World of Xeen is Still the King of the RPG Sandbox

Release Date: 1992 (Clouds), 1993 (Darkside), 1994 (World of Xeen) Developer Name: New World Computing Get It On: GOG The Most Ambitious Crossover Before Marvel Existed Imagine it’s the early…

Chris February 11, 2026

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Facing Worlds and Flak Cannons: The Bloody Reign of Unreal Tournament

Release Dates: Unreal Tournament (1999), Unreal Tournament 2003 (2002), Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004), Unreal Tournament 3 (2007) Developer: Epic Games and Digital Extremes In the late nineties, as a first…

Chris February 9, 2026

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Demigods, Loot, and Ancient Drama: Titan Quest Still Slaps Two Decades Later

Release Date: June 26, 2006 (Original), November 2021 (Latest Expansion) Developer Name: Iron Lore Entertainment / THQ Nordic / Pieces Interactive Get It On: GOG The Legend Begins: Slaying Hydras…

Chris February 9, 2026

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The Beautiful, Broken Tragedy of Ultima IX: Ascension

Release Date: October 30, 1999 Developer: Origin Systems Get It On: GOG Let’s take a trip back to 1999, a year when the world was terrified of the Y2K bug…

Chris February 7, 2026

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Welcome Home, Outlander: Morrowind is Still the King of the RPG Hill

If you have spent any time in the RPG community over the last two decades, you have undoubtedly encountered a specific type of gamer. You know the one—they usually have…

Chris February 6, 2026

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The Spy Who Bugged Me: Why Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol is the Best Disaster You’ll Ever Play

Release Date: June 1, 2010 Developer: Obsidian Entertainment Get It On: GOG The Most Influential Game You Never Played Let’s be honest for a second. If you were around in…

Chris February 5, 2026

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The Conspiracy That Never Truly Ends: A Deus Ex Retrospective

Release Date: June 23, 2000 Developer Name: Ion Storm Buy It On: GOG The Simulation That Defined a Genre When people talk about the greatest games of all time, the…

Chris February 1, 2026

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The Ultimate Hero’s Journey: Warlords Battlecry III is on of the Best of RPG-RTS Hybrids

Release Date: May 17, 2004 Developer: Infinite Interactive Get It On: GOG The early 2000s saw an absolute explosion of the Real-Time Strategy genre. It was the era of Warcraft…

Chris January 29, 2026

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“More Gold, Your Majesty!”: Why We’re Still Obsessed with a Kingdom We Can’t Control

Release Date: March 21, 2000 Developer: Cyberlore Studios Get It On: GOG If you grew up gaming in the late nineties or early 2000s, you probably remember the stressful bliss…

Chris January 28, 2026