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Articles about fantasy: August 7, 2008

Dungeons and Dragons fourth Edition announced at GenCon

by Joshua Mallory on Aug 17, 2007 at 02:38 PM

D&D LogoWizards of the Coast announced the fourth edition of the pencil and paper roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons yesterday, August 16, 2007 at GenCon. 

based on fantasy literature, Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D, has nfluenced huge swaths of videogame canon, including arguably the entire RPG genre.  Wizards of the Coast routinely licenses out the D&D brand for a variety of console and PC games.

The core of Dungeons and Dragons is three manuals, to be ...

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MMOs: Deep, consuming story or just a waste of time?

by Madison, Phil on Jul 25, 2007 at 09:02 PM

Is_this_fun_thumb.jpg Apparently, I’m not the only one feeling the stagnation of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. IGN UK reported that Richard Garriot, who was largely responsible for starting the genre with his work on Ultima Online, is also seeing the lack of creativity and he hopes that his new project, Tabula Rasa, will alter the paradigm.

It seems when I first considered the concept of a massive multiplayer online game I got pretty excited. I’m a fan of fantasy and science fiction and when I thought about this new genre of games I imagined…

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