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After pressing start: The Infinity Engine’s coldest open
(After Pressing Start is a new series running on Nightmare Mode every Friday by resident narrative guru Tom Auxier. It focuses on beginning, on the stories that happen directly after pressing start, and how those stories influence the arcs of video games. A variety of games he’s totally never talked about before will be featured. ...
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Interview with Chris Avellone
Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with the great Chris Avellone himself, one of the minds behind the critically acclaimed Fallout franchise and Planescape: Torment. What follows is our exchange, where we speak of nearly everything you can think of in association to the RPG genre, Fallout and more. Enjoy! Could you tell ...
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Why the Mass Effecting of Dragon Age might not be a bad thing
Immediate, upfront confession: compared to Patricia and Graham, I am a Dragon Age noob. I’ve beaten the game once, but that’s as far as it goes. Normal is as high as the difficulty slider goes. The only class I’ll play as is a mage, because the other classes, let’s be honest, suck. It’s a game ...
