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While Dungeons & Dragons was originally inspired by a great deal of pulp literature, the pen and paper RPG then in turn i...

Raphael Colantonio, the founder of Arkane and now WolfEye Studios, is currently working on Weird West - an isometric immersiv...

The CRPG Addict is a long-running blog built around the daunting task of playing every single CRPG in a chronological order. ...

Origin’s landmark RPG Ultima VII had such a profound impact on Larian Studios’ founder and CEO Swen Vincke, that he now t...

The editors over at PC Gamer have assembled a fresh list of what they consider to be the best RPGs currently available on PC....

The latest entry in The Digital Antiquarian blog is dedicated to Origin Systems' highly-influential cRPG Ultima VII: The Blac...

While not focusing exclusively on RPGs, this PC Gamer article takes a good look at a number of games with books and codexes i...

Over at PC Gamer, Richard Cobbett wrote an article that compares Larian Studios' recently released Divinity: Original Sin II ...

GamesBeat had the opportunity to have a lengthy chat with Richard "Lord British" Garriott at this year's Gamelab event, and t...

GamesBeat offers an extensive interview with Richard Garriott, the creator of the Ultima series who's been working in the gam...

The latest of Richard Cobbett's RPG Scrollbars columns talks in detail about the intricate process of creating fun, memorable...

Richard Cobbett spends the majority of his latest RPG Scrollbars column talking about all the times video games, and RPGs in ...

In his latest RPG Scrollbars column on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Richard Cobbett talks about the so-called Conlangs, or construct...

Now we're getting to the good stuff. The 4th part of IGN's top RPG list includes entries 21-40, with a fair share of must-hav...

The work on Felipe Pepe's CRPG Book, an ambitious project that aims to document the history of the CRPG genre, is progressing...

The latest of Richard Cobbett's RPG Scrollbars features revolves around all the underutilized ideas in RPGs. This particular ...

We learn that Ultima IX: Ascension cost $45 million to develop, glean a few nuggets of information about his early MMORPG (or...

Richard Cobbett's Rock, Paper, Shotgun column boasts a couple of new entries. First one, titled A Heretical Quest For Glory, ...

A nearly thirty-minute discussion ensues in this latest entry to Matt Barton's video interview series with David "Dr. Cat" Sh...

After calling out that Planescape: Torment should be your first pick for PC-based adventures prior to diving into inXile's To...

Matt Barton is offering up the third installment to his video intervew with David "Dr. Cat" Shapiro, with this 30-minute entr...

People love "best of" lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The cri...

David "Dr. Cat" Shapiro of ORIGIN Systems and Ultima design fame continues to be the latest RPG developer to be interviewed ...

The first of what I presume will be multiple installments to a new video interview with ORIGIN Studios veteran David "Dr. Cat...

While his original plan was to take a look at Obsidian's latest CRPG, Tyranny, Richard Cobbett ended up having just enough ti...

There's a full one-hour video interview with Richard "Lord British" Garriott over on Unseen Dragon's YouTube channel, where t...

Longing for the days when physical items spilled out of the game box when the cellophane was removed and its cardboard shell ...

It's hard to believe that it has been nearly 25 years since I first laid eyes on the jet black cover of Ultima VII: The Black...

In his latest RPG Scrollbars column for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Richard Cobbett analyzes the characteristics that made the voic...

WatchMojo.com has compiled a top 10 of Western role-playing games published during the 80s and 90s, which excludes MMORPGs an...

The latest "The RPG Scrollbars" weekly column from Richard Cobbett for Rock, Paper, Shotgun focuses on the way role-playing g...

GameInformer's Kimberley Wallace has compiled a list of 10 RPG franchises, both Western and Japanese, that she'd like to make...

Richard Cobbett's RPG Scrollbars columns for Rock, Paper, Shotgun have proven to be very interesting so far, and I can't say ...

Mass Effect, Fallout, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Pokemon, Baldur's Gate, Final Fantasy, Ultima, and The Elder Sc...

The latest RPG-focused column for Rock, Paper, Shotgun from Richard Cobbett investigates how magic is portrayed and mechanica...

Inspired by the Shroud of the Avatar preview they also posted this holiday weekend, another of PC Gamer's editors has publish...

The Extra Credits YouTube channel has published an interesting video retrospective/recommendation of one of Origin Systems' m...

During this month's E3, GameInformer managed to put Richard "Lord British" Garriott, Supergiant's Greg Kasavin, and actress/v...

The 1987 post-apocalyptic RPG 2400 A.D. is the primary topic of conversation in this third and final Matt Chat video intervie...

Matt Barton continues his video interview with ORIGIN Studios co-founder Chuck "Chuckles" Bueche this week, with the topics o...

Long-time game designer, Richard Garriott compadriate, and ORIGIN Studios co-founder Chuck "Chuckles" Bueche is the subject o...

After taking in another person's relatively negative perspective of Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Rampant Games' Jay Barnson ha...

The folks at RPG Codex have put together a retrospective interview with Warren Spector, who's most often remembered for his s...

Another 25+ minutes' worth of discussion concerning the early days of video game development (Apple vs. IBM PC) and the vener...

Matt Barton has expanded upon the first installment of his video interview with Richard "Lord British" Garriott by taking the...

This portion of a new ORIGIN Systems history feature on The Digital Antiquarian only makes it up to 1983 before breaking away...

Talking to PC Gamer, Ultima creator Richard "Lord British" Garriott has expressed some pretty strong and unflattering opinion...

After a brief intro where they cover both the free-to-play Ultima Forever and Richard Garriott's "meaningful multiplayer" spi...

After assembling a pile of questions in their forums, Stratics hosted a "live" Q&A with Richard Garriott that covers a range ...

Fans of Spoony's curse-laden game reviewing will no doubt be pleased to hear that the Internet personality has completed his ...

Rampant Games' Jay Barnson, who you might know for his frank opinions on the role-playing genre and videogame industry in his...

After an excellent interview with Chris Avellone the folks at Gather your Party have taken the chance to talk with Ultima ser...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of ORIGIN's Ultima VII: The Black Gate, the folks at Ultima Aiera have prepa...

There are still some pretty solid rumors that a team at EA/BioWare/Mythic are hard at work on a new Ultima title, so if you'd...

It's time for another interview with our favorite veteran game designer, Richard Garriott, though this three-pager on Venture...

At least that's the thesis of Joystiq's Rowan Kaiser, who tried to list the ways the franchise spawned by Richard Garriott in...

A Tweet by Ultima Online producer Jeff Skalski (who you might recall has been working on an unannounced and likely Ultima-rel...

Remember when Hardcore Gaming 101 put together the first half of a 15-page history on ORIGIN's classic Ultima series? Well, ...

Eurogamer's chat with Richard Garriott has already revealed us plenty of interesting info, like the recently denied claim of ...

The folks at Industry Gamers have published the second part of their interview with "gaming industry legend" Richard Garriott...

After releasing the first and second Ultima trilogy on their successful retro-oriented digital delivery service, the folks at...

Industry Gamers had the chance to score an interview with the famed creator of the Ultima series Richard Garriott, which focu...

Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Adam Smith has put together an interesting retrospective article dedicated to one of the titles that "...

Just as they did with their historical Might and Magic piece, the editors over at Hardcore Gaming 101 have put together the f...

Business Insider has an interview with the father of the Ultima franchise, Richard Garriott, dealing with his career, from Ri...

Alright, I realize this is pretty far out into left field, but I couldn't resist. Ultima Aiera has caught wind that Ultima c...

According to a report from Ultima Aiera Jeff Skalski from BioWare Mythic has been nominated producer for the Ultima franchise...

The G4 University video series continues with Ultima creator Richard Garriott offering nearly four minutes of tough advice to...

Talking to Industry Gamers, Richard "Lord British" Garriott revealed that he would like to collaborate with EA on a new Ultim...

According to a brief, article-style interview with Portalarium's Richard Garriott on GamersGlobal, the veteran designer inten...

Gamasutra is offering up a summary of the keynote speech given by veteran game developer Richard Garriott earlier today at GD...

Ultima Aiera continues to bring us internal technical documents from the development of ORIGIN's iconic series, and this time...

Not satisfied with just one chat the folks at Gamasutra took the change to talk again with Richard Garriott, the themes being...

GDC Europe sent out a press release this morning announcing that Ultima creator Richard Garriott is set to deliver a keynote ...

Gamasutra recently chatted up Richard Garriott, quizzing the Ultima creator about what his team at Portalarium is working on,...

While the fact that EA accidentally revealed it earlier took away the surprise, the Ultima Forever website is now live. The w...

The fourth part of Rock Paper Shotgun's The Very Important List of PC Games (to be read as "games we like") is absolutely sto...

The Spoony Experiment continues to critique ORIGIN's venerable Ultima series, with what is currently the top rated RPG on Gam...

The second portion of Bitmob's "Forgotten Ruins: The Roots of Computer Role-Playing Games" series is now available, and this ...

According to his latest Twitter entry, Ultima creator and Portalarium founder Richard Garriott has proclaimed that his compan...

To conclude a week of PC-specific coverage, Kotaku has (rightfully) chosen ORIGIN Systems as "the greatest PC developer of al...

The team behind the excellent Exult engine (you know, the one that allows us to play Ultima VII and all of its addons on mode...

Ultima creator Richard Garriott and Doom creator John Carmack were on hand at this weekend's QuakeCon to talk about space tra...

The CRPG Addict has penned an editorial that spotlights the advantages of non-linearity in role-playing games while also proc...

Tales of the Rampant Coyote's Jay Barnson continues to summarize the design lessons that he took away from several classic CR...

Gamasutra has slapped up a five-page interview with Richard Garriott about his new Portalarium venture, improving interactive...

Even though there's no real mention of Ultima or anything truly RPG-related, I thought some of you might be interested in a ...

After chatting with EA Mythic's Paul Barnett about their fond memories of the Ultima series, Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Kieron Gi...

Eurogamer has conjured up an entertaining four-page article that spotlights the video games that have successfully introduced...

Total PC has published the first in what will most likely be several installments to a "complete history of Ultima", with qui...

IndustryGamers has another "playing favorites" feature on offer, this time profiling Todd Howard's ten favorite video games o...

In G4's latest MMO Report video, host Casey Schreiner covers an annual conference set up by members of a large MMO guild call...