After ten years of werewolf attacks on urbane vampire covens, the little known but much-loved RPG Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines has received a healthy update. Patch 9.0 (yes, 9.0!) adds a bountiful number of improvements, despite the fact that the developer Troika officially went out of busine
You’d be forgiven for thinking horror games have lost their edge lately. The current torchbearer is Amnesia: start with a weird fiction pedigree, keep the player on her toes with careful formal elements, and pop in a horrific slavering hellspawn when all else fails. Games like Slender and its YouTub
A fair critique of RPGs is that you inevitably wind up overseeing the same wimpy wizards and quick-witted rogues no matter which game you’re in. But Obsidian’s Kickstarted fantasy Pillars of Eternity gives you the option to disassemble those tried-and-true archetypes of the ancient rulebook. Josh S