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CT, computed tomography; ADVT, abdominal deep vein thrombosis.
Incidental diagnosis of a deep vein thrombosis in consecutive patients undergoing a computed tomography scan of the abdomen: a retrospective cohort study
Version of Record online: 4 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2011.04565.x
© 2011 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 158–160, January 2012
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AGENO, W., SQUIZZATO, A., TOGNA, A., MAGISTRALI, F., MANGINI, M., FUGAZZOLA, C. and DENTALI, F. (2012), Incidental diagnosis of a deep vein thrombosis in consecutive patients undergoing a computed tomography scan of the abdomen: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 10: 158–160. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2011.04565.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 4 JAN 2012
- Version of Record online: 4 JAN 2012
- Accepted manuscript online: 17 NOV 2011 11:04AM EST
- Received 2 October 2011, accepted 10 November 2011
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Over the past years, there has been an increasing interest in the clinical relevance of an incidentally detected venous thrombosis. A number of studies have reported on the prevalence of an incidental pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients undergoing a chest computed tomography (CT) for reasons other than the investigation of a suspected PE. We recently published a systematic review and a meta-analysis of these studies, and found a weighted mean prevalence of incidental, asymptomatic PE of 2.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.9–3.4) [1]. Independent predictors of incidental PE were hospitalization at the time of the CT (odds ratio [OR] 4.27; 95% CI 2.60–7.00) and cancer (OR 1.91; 95% CI 1.26–2.90). To our knowledge, little information is currently available on the prevalence and predictors of an incidentally detected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients undergoing an abdominal CT scan. In a retrospective chart review of 1921 consecutive cancer patients on chemotherapy, Di Nisio et al. [2] found a 0.58% incidence (95% CI 0.44–0.74) of an incidental venous thrombosis after reviewing all CT scans performed during follow-up. Of these, only 16% occurred in the abdominal veins, including the splanchnic veins, renal veins and inferior vena cava. Conversely, in a retrospective chart review of 1466 staging CT scans in patients with cancer, Douma et al. [3] reported a prevalence of an incidental abdominal deep vein thrombosis (ADVT) of 1.1% (95% CI 0.6–2.0), and this rate was similar to that of a PE or DVT of the lower limbs (1.3%, 95% CI 0.7–2.3).
To provide an estimate of the prevalence of an incidental ADVT in a general, an unselected population of patients undergoing an abdominal CT, we carried out a retrospective chart review of consecutive scans performed at the Ospedale di Circolo, Varese, Italy over a 6-month period between 1 September 2009 and 31 March 2010. To identify predictors of an ADVT, we performed a case–control study comparing the characteristics of the patients with an incidental ADVT with those of the patients without an ADVT.
Two authors (A. Togna and F. Magistrali) independently reviewed the reports of all consecutive abdominal CT performed at the Division of Radiology of our hospital during the selected study period and collected the following data: age and gender, inpatient or outpatient status, department that ordered the CT scan in case of inpatient status, the reason for requesting the CT, relevant patient clinical history described by the ordering physician, the presence of cancer, site of cancer, the presence of thrombosis and site of thrombosis and the presence of liver cirrhosis. The diagnosis of venous thrombosis was checked and confirmed by experienced radiologists: incidental ADVT was defined by the presence of an intraluminal filling defect on the CT scan. For all patients with an incidental ADVT, the medical records were searched and information on the clinical conditions at the time of the test and on the management of the unsuspected thrombotic event was gathered. Data extraction was performed using selection criteria and data collection forms that were prepared before the chart reviews. All CT scans were performed with a Toshiba Aquilion 64 slice machine (Toshiba Medical Systems, Rome, Italy) (Kv 120, rotation time 0.5 s, pitch 0.828 and a slice thickness of 0.5 mm × 64). The prevalence of an incidental ADVT was reported as a proportion with the 95% CI. The baseline characteristics of cases with an incidental ADVT and controls without an ADVT were compared using Student's t-test (for continuous variables) and the χ2 or Fisher's exact test (for dichotomous variables). Odd ratios and 95% CI were calculated to test the association with potential predictors of an incidental ADVT. Binary logistic regression analysis was performed to verify the independence of the associations after univariate analysis. The data were analyzed with the use of SPSS software, version 19.0. The present study was approved by the local ethics committee.
During the study period, a total of 2619 abdominal CT scans were performed. Baseline characteristics of the study population are reported in Table 1. Of these CT scans, 28 were specifically requested for a suspected ADVT or were performed in patients with an known ADVT. Forty-five of the remaining 2591 CT scans were positive for an incidental ADVT, corresponding to an estimated prevalence of 1.74% (95% CI 1.29–2.34). Information on the site of ADVT is reported in Table 2. Medical records of all cases with an incidental ADVT were reviewed: none of the patients had a previous history of a VTE; 21 patients were asymptomatic at the time of the test, whereas the remaining patients had symptoms which apparently did not lead to a suspicion of an ADVT including abdominal pain (n = 19), nausea and/or vomiting (n = 8), diarrhoea (n = 1) or fever (n = 1). When we assessed the prevalence of an ADVT in specific patient subgroups, this was 1.80% (95% CI 1.24–2.59) in outpatients; 1.63% (95% CI 0.95–2.74) in inpatients; 1.17% (95% CI 0.30–3.67) in surgical inpatients; 1.80% (95% CI 0.98–3.21) in medical inpatients; 2.50% (95% CI 1.78–3.48) in cancer patients; and 15.46% (95% CI 9.19–24.54) in liver cirrhosis patients. When we assessed the prevalence of an ADVT in patients without cancer and/or cirrhosis, this was 0.36% (95% CI 0.12–0.99). About half of the patients with an ADVT were treated with anticoagulant drugs, in most cases low-molecular-weight heparin was administered at therapeutic doses. The results of univariate analysis comparing the characteristics of cases and controls are reported in Table 3. After multivariate analysis, cancer (OR 3.17; 95% CI 1.51–6.68) and liver cirrhosis (OR 14.72; 95% CI 7.57–28.63) were independent predictors of a ADVT.
|Total abdominal CT scans reviewed
|Abdominal CT scans not requested for a suspected or known ADVT
|Mean age (years) (± SD)
|65.1 ± 14.7
|Age range (years)
|Male gender
|1536 (59.2%)
|1669 (64.3%)
|Inpatients, medical departments
|376 (14.5%)
|Inpatients, surgical departments
|256 (9.8%)
|Inpatients, other departments
|289 (11.1%)
|CT scan requested for the staging of cancer
|1353 (52.2%)
|Patients with cancer
|1442 (55.6%)
|Patients with liver cirrhosis
|97 (3.7%)
|Number of patients
|Male gender
|Age (years) (mean ± SD)
|67.42 (12.93)
|Single site
|Multiple sites
|Suvra-hepatic vein
|Portal vein
|Splenic vein
|Superior mesenteric vein
|Inferior mesenteric vein
|Renal vein
|Inferior vena cava
|No ADVT
|Age (years) (mean ± SD)
|67.4 (12.9)
|65.0 (14.7)
|Male gender (%)
|Outpatients (%)
|Medical inpatients (%)
|Cancer (%)
|Liver cirrhosis (%)
|< 0.0001
This is, to our knowledge, the first study specifically aimed at estimating the prevalence and predictors of an ADVT in an unselected population undergoing an abdominal CT scan. The results of the present study suggest that the prevalence of an incidental ADVT is not negligible, in particular in patients with underlying major risk factors such as cancer and liver cirrhosis, although less than half of patients with an ADVT were truly asymptomatic at the time of the event. These rates are clinically relevant, in particular in the light of an increasing use of abdominal CT scans in different clinical settings, suggesting these figures may further increase over time. Furthermore, previous studies on an incidental PE have shown that nearly half of the events detected using a chest CT were actually not diagnosed at the time of the test, but were only identified after a retrospective review of the scans for research purposes. Thus, as for an incidental PE, attention to the possibility of the presence of an ADVT, even if clinically silent, should be warranted, especially in higher risk patients.
Cancer patients with a symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) were shown to have a worse prognosis than cancer patients without VTE [4], and previous studies suggest that an incidental VTE may have the same predictive value as a symptomatic VTE [5–7]. In a retrospective, multicenter study, we compared 6-month survival rates in 60 cancer patients with an incidental VTE, in 120 cancer patients with a symptomatic VTE and in 60 cancer patients without a VTE and found similar mortality rates in the two VTE groups [5]. Likewise, in a prospective observational study, Font et al. [6] reported a similar overall survival between cancer patients with a symptomatic VTE and cancer patients with an incidental VTE. Finally, in a matched cohort study of cancer patients diagnosed with an incidental PE on routine staging scans, O'Connell et al. [7] found a statistically significant 1.51 hazard ratio for death in cases as compared with controls with cancer, but without PE. Unfortunately, patients with an ADVT were not included in these studies, and whether the detection of an incidental ADVT has the same prognostic value as the detection of an incidental venous thrombosis in more usual sites needs to be addressed in future adequately designed clinical studies.
The main limitation of the present study is the retrospective design, which justifies some caution in the interpretation of the data. Information on risk factors was limited to the data available from CT requests and from the results of the scans, thus, we could only include in our analysis those risk factors for a ADVT that were accurately available from these limited sources. For this reason, the association between a ADVT and potential predictors could not be established. Another limitation is the possibility of either false-positive or false-negative diagnoses of an ADVT. However, experienced radiologists carefully checked the images.
In conclusion, nearly 2% of consecutive, unselected patients undergoing an abdominal CT scan were diagnosed with a clinically silent ADVT in the present study. These patients were more likely to have cancer or liver cirrhosis. The prognostic role and the optimal therapeutic management of an incidental ADVT remain unknown, but given the prevalence reported in our study we believe there is a strong rationale to support future studies aimed to specifically address these questions.
Disclosure of Conflict of Interests
The authors state that they have no conflict of interest.
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Sometime video playback will pause (spinner shows), skip a few seconds, or totally hang. If it hangs, I have to restart the section (e.g. the 1-4 parts of an episode) to continue. I can then replay the part where it hung before. There are no error messages.
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Originally titled There and Back Again, the final film in The Hobbit trilogy has been renamed The Battle of the Five Armies, Peter Jackson announced this morning.
"There and Back Again felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo's arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film," the director wrote this morning on Facebook. "But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced — after all, Bilbo has already arrived 'there' in the Desolation of Smaug. When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate. And so: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies it is."
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is the full title of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved 1937 novel; Jackson says fans shouldn't be surprised if the phrases appears on a boxed set of all three films. He also confirms there will be an extended cut of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, featuring 25 minutes of new scenes.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies arrives in theaters Dec. 17.
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I know, I know. You're good NPR listeners. I bet you read the papers every day last week — slogged through news on the economy, the election, Iraq. You listened to Morning Edition, TOTN, did your homework. But I bet there's one piece of news that you missed — the kind of news that not only puts a smile on your face, but a little spin, a little shake, a little something in your hips. This year is the 25th anniversary of the release of Michael Jackson's seminal album, Thriller. Significance? Let me list the five best dance songs of all time and see if they mean anything to you. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Thriller," "Beat It," "Billie Jean," "Human Nature," "P.Y.T." (Pretty Young Thing). Oh wait. That's six. What does that spell? Thriller, baby. You know what else it spells? P-A-R-T-Y. There is no more joyful, funky, timeless music — if it finds its way in and out of your speakers, it's as if you had a pretty inexpensive, but delicious double latte — the effects of which are centered mostly in your hips. It's hip-notic. Today, we're checking in with Harriette Cole — creative director of Ebony — who spent some quality time with Michael Jackson, and reflects on the birth of the classic. You know what we want you to do here? We want you to forget about the weirdness, the allegations, the pet snake (see above) the made for TV movies (although I want to point out that the Jackson movie with Angela Bassett is pretty amazing), and we want you to appreciate the art Jackson made. Tell us your Thriller moment.
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When I was about ten years old, we had just moved into a new house, and we had a contractor fixing things up for us. My sister, mother, and I were crazy for the Thriller video. One day in the summer it came on MTV and my mom ran to get the contractor and forced him to sit with us and watch the whole fifteen minute video. I can still remember his bewildered smile as he sat and watched Michael Jackson sing and dance with a zombie dance troupe while my mom talked with him about how great the video was. I could almost hear him thinking, "Please, God, let this thing end so I can just go back to hanging the freakin' drywall."
"Thriller" and Michael Jackson shaped my life so much as a child and pre-teen, it is almost embarrassing to admit. I was IN LOVE with Michael Jackson - In love!!! I went to EVERY concert. We would sit in front of his house and wait for him to "appear." My sister and I would cry...no, SOB, at the concerts, when he came on television at the Grammy's and so forth. So when they were shooting the Thriller video, we convinced my mom to take us to downtown Los Angeles (we lived in Altadena, CA) and drive around and try to find the location of shoot. We didn't unfortunately. But when it came out on MTV and they ran it for 24 hours, we sat and watched it over and over and over again until our parents made us turn it off or go to bed. Then, they made the mistake of buying "The Making of Thriller" for us on VHS (remember those?). We watched that over and over again. I knew every word of that video by heart. I can still do the entire Thriller dance to this day. I bet my parents probably can too because they were forced to watch it so much. At any rate, he was wonderful at one time and those are great fun memories. I still smile when I hear any song off of that album - Hey remember those?
my thriller moment came jumping out of the back of a truck on a main street in Kansas City, MO with "Rah-Booty", the newly-founded art school cheerleading troop, and performing the entire thriller dance to a jukebox in front of a gallery.
I just recorded my new album using the mixing board that Thriller was originally mixed on. The engineer that owns the mixing board is trying to call in. I hope you can take his call.
My impression of the album is that the musician involved in the production was Quincy Jones, not Jacko. The only positive to come out of The Wiz...
I was 13 when Thriller came out. I remember it was on Friday Night Videos for the first time and I stayed up late to see it. I made my dad watch it with me because it scared me but I wanted to see it so bad. So, I snuggled up to my dad and hide my eyes at times due to the zombies, but I loved it. I will never forget it.
I was a young teenager in Jr High when Thriller released. The album was all my sister and I wanted for Christmas. When we received the album we displayed it open on our dresser in our bedroom. It was a prized possession--with much better sound quality than the recordings of the song we already owned ...cassette tapes we'd recorded from the radio. We took break dancing classes to learn to moon walk like Michael Jackson. We stayed up late on Friday nights to catch the video on "Friday Night Videos". Michael Jackson was a big part of my early teen memories.
I was in eighth grade when Thriller was released. My middle school actually made a special event by taking us in shifts down to the cafeteria to watch the video. I could hardly stand the anticipation and to this day it is one of my only things I remember from my middle school! (Much to my teachers dismay...) It was and still is truly amazing.
I was 12 and my brother was 9 and the only access we had to videos was Friday Night Videos. We loved it!! In fact, we played the record (goodness, a record!) so often that we wore it out. I didn't think you could really do that, but Mom had to buy us a new one. I'm not sure what could top it today.
In 1983 I was a recent college graduate from Michigan teaching English in Bogota, Colombia. Any song played from the Thriller album immediately transports me to a vehicle packed with Colombian and North American friends, singing along to that great music as the car careened along the perilous roads of Colombia.
My Thriller Moment was just last week, when I introduced my 8 year old daughter to YouTube and Thriller. We had just finished watching the new commercial with the lizards dancing to Thriller. My daughter wanted to know where the dance came from and I was excited to show her... we pulled both up on YouTube and she was 'THRILLED' with the fact that this was something I watched when I was just a few years older than she is now. The music that Michael Jackson created then is timeless now. I will admit though, it makes me sad to know he isn't as revered now as he was 25 years ago.
This is the second time I heard on NPR that Michael Jackson fought to get on MTV because videos by blacks were forbidden. Huh? Black artists have ruled pop music forever. Are we supposed to believe that the music business circa 1982 was like a 1930s an Alabama lunch counter - whites only? This isn't the least bit credible. Michael Jackson seems to be confusing his experiences with Billie Holiday's.
I have had many Thriller moments two of which involved two different youth groups I have worked with over the past 5 years. The first one was where my youth group performed our own rendition of Thriller on stage a a youth conference in from of 2,000 high school students and the other will be taking place next Sunday as my youth group now performs their rendition in our annual fundraiser.
In 1983, I was a graduate student in theatre at Indiana University. The great horror actor Vincent Price came to the I.U. Auditorium to give a lecture about his life and career--and the place was PACKED--a whole new generation of kids had come to know and love Price because of his wonderful voice track on the song "Thriller." He was asked by the students in the audience to say the passage on the song, and as soon as he said the words, "Darkness falls across the land . . ." the place just EXPLODED. Everyone went nuts. Price actually came to the theatre class I was teaching and talked about life show business and how much fun it was to make Thriller. It was definitely a thrill for us!
I think the most interesting and disturbing comment I have heard in along time is that previous to the Thriller album Black musicians were NOT shown on MTV and there was no intention of them being "allowed" on MTV. My god how far we have come and yet it is obvious we have very far yet to go if only 25 years ago this was true.
When I was about 3 or 4 years old, my parents were made the Godparents to the son of one of their friends. After the christening, there was a very elaborate dinner ceremony, with all the friends and family, most of whom were from Japan as the parents were.
At one point during the dinner, one of the grandfathers, stands and in Japanese, recites this elegant poem poem about the beauty of Mt. Fuji. Our friends translate the poem to my parents and everyone at the end claps, some of the women cried. A very touching moment, which right afterwards, I took my little 4 year-old self, stood up on a chair, grabbed a spoon, and proudly announce "My turn!" and proceed with singing Michael Jackson's song "Beat it" without a care in the world as my poor parents melt with embarrassment on the chairs next to me.
I didn't get into thriller until two years ago. On Halloween, a bunch of students got together to put on makeup, latex, and fake blood and hit campus as a zombie horde. Most importantly, a dance student worked out the "Thriller" dance and taught it to us. On Halloween, late night revelers stumbled out of the bars and into the midst of about a hundred zombies. The horde happened for the second time this year, with two hundred people and a jeep sped in blasting the Thriller soundtrack just before every dance. I still get the itch to moan "brains!" and break into the dance every time I hear the song. The student newspaper posted a sideshow of the horde: http://media.dailyillini.com/media/2007/10/29_zombie/publish_to_web/index.html?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=550&width=650
I still play the Thriller song every halloween for the kids. I set my stereo speakers out the window or front porch and blast it! Kids and adults alike love it!
I was born in 1984, but the enormous popularity of this album and Michael Jackson was so huge that they take up much of my early memory. This really speaks to the unmatched volume of this one simple album. Michael is the king of it all, and that is just about as indisputed as you can get.
My mom and I were in a mall in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) when I found it- the Michael Jackson glove!! I pleaded with my mom to get it and she finally said yes. As we paid, she asked where the other one was. She was a little confused when I told her there *was* only one. I'm sure it's still in the storage somewhere next to the Light Bright and the Cabbage Patch doll.
I think that "Beat It" overshadowed the whole "monster" concept in Thriller. True, it is a dance song, but the video had a highly interracial cast which led to its appeal to a wider market.
The element that tipped the scales though had to be the blistering guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen! Even rock fans took notice of this album and it appeared to be played in rock clubs as well as dance clubs which gave it a new universality for a black artist. Many Van Halen fans purchased the album, just to learn the solo...even if they did hide the record under their bed to avoid heckling by thier friends.


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That's a silent film (1924) by Harold Lloyd. Funny as hell and a fantastic 20 minute chase scene at the end of the movie that still holds my attention especially when you consider he's doing his own stunts and it is as real as it can be 92 years ago.
Why? Because you know damn well it isn't CGI. You don't even notice it is a silent movie. It's available on Youtube. If you don't want to watch the whole thing starting at 56:00.
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Amber Heard and Johnny Depp arrive at The Art of Elysium's Ninth annual Heaven Gala at 3LABS on Jan. 9 in Culver City, Calif. (Associated Press)
Johnny Depp stars as James Bulger in "Black Mass" and Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in "Spectre," now available on Blu-ray.
Johnny Depp arrives at the Special Screening of 'Black Mass' at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Brookline, Mass. (Photo by Marc Andrew Deley/Invision/AP)
FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2015 file photo, U.S. actor Johnny Depp and Amber Heard arrive at Haneda international airport in Tokyo to promote his latest film "Mortdecai." Johnny Depp's wife Amber Heard has been charged with illegally bringing the couple's dogs to Australia. Prosecutors on Thursday, July 16, 2015 said that Heard was charged this week with two counts of illegally importing Pistol and Boo into Australia and one count of producing a false document. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
Australian quarantine authorities have ordered Hollywood star Johnny Depp to fly his pet dogs Pistol and Boo out the country by Saturday or they will be put down. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)
Johnny Depp has been adored since the 80's, during his role on the television series 21 Jump Street. At age 51, he remains one of Hollywood's biggest leading men.
** FILE ** Johnny Depp arrives at the LA Premiere Of "Transcendence" on Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Johnny Depp, left, and Amber Heard attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" on Monday, May 5, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Actor Johnny Depp and fiancée Amber Heard arrive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" on Monday, May 5, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
FILE - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 file photo, actor Johnny Depp attends a promotional event for his new movie "Transcendence" in Beijing, China. The film releases in the US on April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A jury has found a Montgomery man guilty of capital murder in the 2008 killing of his own 3-year-old son.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports that after the verdict was handed down Thursday Judge Tracy McCooey sentenced 38-year-old Alvin Johnson to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Defense attorneys had said that Johnson killed his son C.J. accidentally on May 1, 2008, but prosecutors said he knew what he was doing. The boy died from an internal head injury.
Prosecutors relied heavily on medical evidence and the testimony of another inmate charged with capital murder. Joshua Ward, 29, testified that Johnson told him he killed his son in a rage and then drove him to the hospital so he'd look like a caring father.
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@DSOGaming they announce that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 are releasing for PC and next gen consoles this Tuesday. The formerly console exclusive games are described as epic action RPGs and involve teams of superheroes.
These Ultimate Alliance games are described as 'epic action RPGs with a huge focus on cooperative play,' and will be priced at at $39.99 each or as a bundle together for $59.99.
As Mike Jones, executive producer for this Ultimate re-release, claimed, both of them will feature improved performance, some UI and graphic enhancements as well as making the games compatible with modern platform features on current-gen platforms.
The reason Marvel is re-releasing these games is because this would be a great way to 'celebrate an amazing franchise that's about to hit its 10th anniversary.'
General NewsSP/MP: Unknown
Setting: Unknown
Genre: RPG
Platform: Unknown
Release: In development
Saturday - July 23, 2016
Wizardry Chronicles - Translated into English
Wizardry Chronicles, released in 2001 and formerly only available in Japanese, has been translated into English by a dedicated team of fans and made available for PC.
Download here.
General NewsSP/MP: Unknown
Setting: Unknown
Genre: RPG
Platform: Unknown
Release: In development
Ghost of a Tale - Early Access on July 25th
The Early Access version of Ghost of a Tale will be available on July 25th - from Twitter:
#GhostOfATale early access will release on July 25th at 9AM PDT. Price will be $19.99 (-10% during the first week). Please spread the word!
-> Steam
Ghost of a TaleSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: In development
I Am Setsuna - Reviews
The reviews for the JRPG I Am Setsuna are a mixed bag:
'I Am Setsuna' review: A JRPG with heart
"I Am Setsuna" is the polar opposite of a subversive work it. It's earnest and conventional but also alert to the vast scope of human fallibility and treachery. When the game starts posing you ethical questions about leadership or when you stumble upon an artfully glitchy-looking area where the developers left their calling cards (i.e., you can hear tale of how the composer cried while writing the score), it's hard to resist the endearing tug of the human pulse humming beneath the surface of the pixels.
I Am Setsuna Review: The Pain of Remembering
The Well-Beaten Path
With I Am Setsuna, on one hand you have a staunchly traditional tale that offers a cursory narrative that's familiar on the surface as well as character tropes and archetypes that feel as though they were torn straight from the pages of "Classic RPGs 101." On the other, you have a convoluted battle system and irritants from games of the present that bring you down from any nostalgia high you might have been riding. It's all wrapped up in familiar dressing to get you hooked, but once you get to the substance it's clear I Am Setsuna needed a bit more time in the oven, or perhaps a master class of what made the games that inspired it memorable in the first place. If you're aching for a familiar and exciting JRPG, there's better to be found out there. While this is a serviceable option, there are plenty other more memorable ones out there.
Score: 7/10
I Am Setsuna is an unabashed love letter to fans of classic JRPGs, featuring solid, turn-based combat and a beautiful snowy world that looks like a moving painting. It's a tad on the short side for an RPG and the journey can feel rushed, especially with the lack of extra content. Overall, it feels like it's at the cusp of JRPG greatness but just needs that little extra something to reach its full potential. Still, if you're looking for an old school-style JRPG fix, I Am Setsuna will hit the spot.Score: 3.75 out of 5
From a stylistic standpoint, I am Setsuna is unflinchingly committed to its "snow and sacrifice" motif. Its visuals are simplistic yet graceful, and nearly every area has a chilly ambiance. Characters leave trails in the snow, trees rustle in the wind, and frigid waters reflect Setsuna's determined countenance. The soundtrack is led entirely by piano, creating a solemn atmosphere that is unquestionably beautiful but has a tendency to blend together. I am torn between wishing there was more variety in the game's audiovisual presentation and acknowledging the cohesiveness of its design.
I am Setsuna takes enough risks to be worth experiencing, in spite of its narrative foibles. It is imperfect, and yet saying it "falls flat" would be overly reductionist. I admit I'm disappointed that I wasn't more touched by its themes, but there remains a gentle beauty within I am Setsuna that I wouldn't mind revisiting. Perhaps I'll make the pilgrimage once more a few winters hence.
Score: 80/100
'I Am Setsuna' Review: A Return To Form For Square Enix
I am Setsuna isn't a perfect distillation of the 90's RPG gameplay so many gamers mastered in their youth. But the game is a carefully considered, if at times flawed, collection of mechanics rarely seen on the modern gaming landscape. Sometimes, Setsuna trips over itself, particularly when it comes to the many intertwining systems built upon the ATB system. And we would have loved to see Tokyo RPG Factory do more with the game's overworld, which doesn't give players much incentive to step off the beaten path. But I am Setsuna is perfect for those hoping to get their JRPG fix without sacrificing all their available free time for the next six months or anyone interested in completing a role-playing game that prioritizes enjoyability over hours played.
I Am SetsunaSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: J-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Starbound - Released
After a long Early Access phase the sandbox adventure game Starbound has been released:
Starbound is an extraterrestrial sandbox adventure game! You've fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite...
StarboundSP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Adventure-RPG
Platform: Unknown
Release: Released
Game Informer - Introducing Kids to RPGs
Most of us here discovered the amazing possibilities of RPGs when we were kids. Game Informer's Top of the Table column tells us how to share that RPG magic with kids today.
(even though the article is about pen-and-paper RPGs, the same principles could apply with PC RPGs)
Ask anyone who has played role-playing games with friends or family over the years; there are few better ways to build relationships, foster laughter, and have a great time than sitting together to create a story. For all of the fantastic worlds RPGs take us to, the opportunity to come together with other people is the best part of the experience. But what if you want to share that laughter and adventure with your daughter or son, niece or nephew, or even the kids you mentor in a club or school?
Playing role-playing games is a fantastic way to bring kids out of their shell, and give them power to shape a story as it comes into being, rather than always witnessing it from the outside like they might with a movie or book. It's also an amazing way to bring adults and kids together, and build trust through a shared experience.
If you're the adult, it's up to you to understand the game, and most of the time, to be the gamemaster who guides the story. But don't be intimidated. Follow the suggestions below to help ensure everybody has a great time. And if you're looking for great role-playing games to try with younger players, flip over to the second page for some RPGS specifically designed with kids in mind.
Game Informer
Deus Ex: MD - Ignoring Main Objective
GamesRadar takes a look at the question "how much fun can we have while ignoring your main objective?". The fleshed-out feel of the game is refreshing.
I got drunk in a railway station, tried to climb into a sewer, nearly died
The important take-away here is that I learned just how expansive and organically explorable Mankind Divided's hubworlds are. They seems significantly upraded from Human Revolution, in scale, variety, freedom, and overall sense of being in a real place. Case in point: the city hub is so big that it's actually split into two parts, with a subway ride connecting them. Additionally, the sewers underneath the city are no longer simply short-cuts and break-in routes. They're so large and winding that you can pretty much cross from anywhere (within a hub section) to anywhere else without seeing daylight. The concept of a parallel under-city - mentioned at one point by an oppressed, subterranean aug pariah - almost rings true.
Anyway, I'm at the subway station on my way to getting a train across to the other side of the city. I realise that I have a few bottles of booze in my inventory - looted from a garage lock-up that I managed to hack open on my way over, using a very similar minigame to that used in Human Revolution. My health could do with a pick-me-up, so I down a couple of them. My health goes up, while my eyesight drops off a cliff. Adam is shambolically drunk, but I am undeterred. But I decide to get out of public view until it wears off. I've seen enough hollering, railway drunks in real-life to not want to be counted among their number. And look! What's that over there? Why, it's a 'Staff only' door. Bound to be something good behind it. I head through, and I find a manhole cover.
I open it, and climb down. I open up my map, and confirm that yes, these tunnels go on for miles. This is exciting, and I am hyped to explore and see what secrets they hold (when I can actually see again). But disaster! The bottom of the ladder is cloaked with poison gas, as is the rest of the chamber. Unable to focus when I first get down there, I don't notice until things go red and Adam starts coughing up thick chunks of God knows what. I shall return, sober, and augmented with air-purifying lungs, but for now, I rapidly ascend, flopping out onto the subway's cold floor tiles like a dying seal, gasping, debased, but now at least sober.
I get a train to the other side of the city, deliberately get in the wrong 'non-augmented' queue at the other end (the cops are a bit sniffy, but basically let me get away with it, because I'm secretly their boss and I think on some level they're starting to sense it), and head up to street level.
Source: GamesRadar
Deus Ex: MDSP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: In development
Witcher 3 - First Person Mod
@DSOGaming they report that CDPR forum member skacikpl has developed a first person mod for The Witcher 3 which will be releasing soon.
CDPR's forum member 'skacikpl' is currently working on a first-person mod for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and has released a new video in order to showcase it. The modder claimed that the current version of his first-person mod will be released soon, so stay tuned for more. Until then, enjoy the video after the jump!loading...
Witcher 3SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Bard's Tale IV - Character Progression
A new kickstarter update for The Bards Tale IV brings with it details on what to expect from character progression. This update also gave our bt4 interview back in May a shoutout so check it out if you haven't already.
While skill trees can have a lot of options, their complexity grows along with the adventurer. The very first view you might have of your skill tree as a Fighter might look a little something like this, showing only a smaller number of skills to unlock:
The image above is a mockup using placeholder art, but should give you a sense of what this might look like in the game.
In the above image we see the player has a few choices to pick from for their fledgling Fighter: learning to wield more advanced one handed weapons, learning to wield great weapons, gaining access to battle standards, wearing more protective armor, gaining bundles of attribute points, learning a new passive, or learning to craft basic potions. You'll notice that many of those choices also carry along with them some increased attributes as an added bonus.
For those of you thinking that's all there is, don't worry. You'll be able to view your entire skill tree from the get go. For simplicity's sake we set the default view to show you only what you have available at a given level, and what's just beyond the horizon. However, you can always zoom out to see the full number of options available to your adventurers as they grow into heroes of legend.
For those of you looking closely at the skill tree descriptions, which I'm confident many of you are, you might be wondering where you get your combat abilities from. Many of them, in fact, do not feature in the skill tree directly - instead, the place you acquire abilities is actually from your equipment. As you progress down the skill tree you unlock the ability to wield new and more exotic weapons, off-hand items, and trinkets. You may unlock access to a single item, such as a battle standard, or an entire category of items, such as Tier 2 great weapons. These items each have a specific ability or abilities. By wielding a great club you'd be able to use Lumbering Strike during battle, while wielding a battle standard would allow you to rally your allies with the ability "To Me, Brothers." As a certain weapon is used, an adventurer will eventually master its abilities, allowing them to keep using those abilities even without needing the weapon equipped. This will let you naturally unlock a vast amount of tactical flexibility over the course of the game.
And lastly, equipment such as your helm, armor, and boots also play a major role in your character's growth and progression. Through the skill tree you're also able gain access to increasingly powerful and exotic armor, robes, costumes, garbs, habits, and accoutrement. Your gear accounts for a major chunk of your adventurer's attributes. How many blows your character can withstand, how able he or she is to focus the eldritch forces, and their mental fortitude is heavily influenced by what mystic equipment they've found and learned to use throughout their journeys. These items can also grant you unique passive abilities that can help you form powerful combos. Itemization is an important aspect of The Bard's Tale IV and we've only given you a cursory glance, so we'll be touching on it more later.
By the good graces of the Review Board, wise choices made in your skill tree, and only the most potent of enchanted war gear, your adventurer can become a one of a kind hero whose deeds will be chronicled through song for an age.
Bard's Tale IVSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Dungeon Crawler
Platform: PC
Release: In development
Friday - July 22, 2016
ELEX - The Skex
WoE presents artwork and info of the Skex monster:
According to legend, the Skex once had a bright coat and real wings. But nowadays the Skex is just known as an aggressive and haggard runner. If there is no way of escape, beware of it's razor-sharp mandible.
Despite his haggard appearance, the Skex is a very robust creature and has spread to many countries of Magalan. Especially when the Skex come across in small groups, you shouldn't provoke them. As a voracious omnivore, the Skex leaves nothing left from his foes.
- Piranha Bytes
ELEXSP/MP: Unknown
Setting: Post-Apoc
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One
Release: In development
System Shock - Interview @ GOG
Nightdive Studio talks about the System Shock Kickstarter on GOG:
How did you choose System Shock for a remake?
Once we had acquired the rights to the System Shock franchise we worked with a SystemShock.org modder to create the Enhanced Edition we eventually released on GOG.com. What they were able to accomplish was nothing short of amazing - with the addition of mouselook, higher resolution support, and some bug fixes we knew the game would be much more accessible to a wider audience, but at the same time we began to recognize the potential for creating a remake from the ground up. The game design, narrative, and pacing all withstood the test of time and we knew that by translating those timeless features into a new engine and recreating the iconic look of Citadel Station within it we'd have something very special. We started with a simple prototype to experiment and once we began to revisit the enemies we brought Robb Waters (the original concept artist) on board to breathe new life into his oldest creations. Momentum started to build and it was decided that remaking the entire game would be the next evolutionary step for not only System Shock, but for Nightdive as well.
Thanks Farflame!
System ShockSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
System Shock - Kickstarter Update
Farflame spotted this Kickstarter update for System Shock:
1.1m Stretch Goal Met and RPG Stuff
1.1m Goal Reached!
Looks like the 1.1m stretch goal has been reached and we'll be supporting Linux and Mac versions of the game! Thank you all so much for making that possible! :-D We're working on bringing the demo onto OSX, but no concrete release date for it just yet. We're hoping to having it some time next week if all goes well.
1.4m Goal Changes
We've altered the 1.4m stretch goal to something a bit more manageable from a game development standpoint. Before, it was vague and misleading regarding "RPG Elements". That lead to a bit of confusion and unease with our backers, and to be perfectly honest, deep system features like that are pretty dangerous as stretch goals. We have an awesome vision for the game and setting a bunch of features we deeply believe in to a stretch goal stifles our own creativity since we can't fully plan for things.
Now, the 1.4m stretch goal is something much safer for us to scale if we don't make the goal. It's to add content in the form of more maps such as Groves, floors of Citadel Station, and Cyberspace content. This will make it better for us to properly execute on our core vision of the game, while still being able to offer some more awesome content if we hit the stretch goal.
So the RPG Stuff...
As I mentioned before, we have a pretty good vision of where we want to take things and what RPG systems we'll be leaning towards within our budget. Also, RPG systems can imply a lot of things, so I'll go over some core concepts that we're following with the overall systems design.
- Stats are boring - Instead of letting the player feel stronger with stat boosts and level identification, we're more in favor of ability and skill depth. As the player progresses, they will get more abilities/weapons, which will take skill to master (player skill, not skill points)
- Things should make sense - We want to have vending machines, but they're mainly for food/drinks that the player can get to help heal themselves or provide a slight boost to their abilities. You won't hack a vending machine to get a gun, since why would a vending machine on a space station have a gun?
- Upgrades are good in moderation - Throughout the game, the player will find upgrades to their abilities and find better weapons. We're not going to get crazy with this one since the point of the game is to have fun, and not noodle around in your inventory. If something is tedious, don't expect us to do it.
- Multiple ways to solve a problem - We're going to assume our players are smart and want to find creative solutions to problems/enemies. We'll provide the tools/weapons/abilities, and the player will decide how they want to solve the problem given their playstyle.
I know that isn't very detailed, but it's still early in the game's development, and things can change. Those rules above are what we're confident in delivering. At the end of the day, we always ask ourselves "What would Looking Glass do?" and strive to carry on their tradition of innovation and quality while being as faithful as we can be to the original game.
- Jason
System ShockSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Necropolis - Improvements Inbound
Harebrained Schemes reflect on their launch week for Necropolis and outline whats next. The developers are taking suggestions here.
At a high level, here's what we've learned so far:
First, NECROPOLIS is a game people *want* to like. Many reviewers and commenters prefaced their criticisms with statements like, "I really wanted this to be good."
Second, people expected more content and more variety for their money. Whether it's more enemies, more environments, more loot, or more variety in a level, the message is that more variety is needed.
Third, many of the item descriptions in the game are obscure and unhelpful, making it hard to make decisions about what to buy or equip. And because our item descriptions are obscure AND written in the Brazen Head's snarky/humorous tone, some people find them irritating.
And fourth, some players found the game too easy and the AI in need of improvement. For example, players report that many enemies can be beat using the same tactics and they want more variety and challenge in combat.
With that in mind, here's what we're doing to improve NECROPOLIS.
The improvements and new content described below will be added to the game FOR FREE when each one is ready over the course of the next several weeks. Please note that the timeframes listed below are meant to be rough guidelines rather than hardcore deadlines.
- Text descriptions of the magical codexes in the Scriptorium are more informative. This change is included in Release 1.02 today for English speaking countries. Other languages will receive that update next week after translation.
- Resolved issue that prevented a menu option from displaying text in several languages.
- Found a workaround for crashes at launch when using a Razer headset.
- Removed developer console access.
- Resolved an issue that could prevent the main menu from opening on launch when Necropolis was set to several non-English languages.
- Steam Achievements are now viewable through the Steam client.
- Continue to fix high-impact bugs.
- Continue to improve enemy behaviors to make creatures more fun to fight.
- We'll be exploring enemy speeds, aggression settings, animation timing and more to better differentiate enemies and vary their challenges.
SHORT-TERM (Coming over the next two weeks)
- Revise weapon descriptions to provide better clues as to their advantages or drawbacks.
- Revise spawning system so that enemy spawning feels more logical and less frustrating.
MID-TERM (Coming 2-4 weeks from now)
- New enemies that change up gameplay.
- Revise enemy spawning so that some harder enemies will show themselves earlier in the game, resulting in more challenging combat with a greater variety of enemies.
- New weapons and armor sets featuring unique stats with positive and negative trade-offs to allow for more varied play styles.
- Turn crafting recipes into loot objects that can be found throughout the Necropolis to encourage further exploration.
- Update the co-op revive system to provide a greater challenge.
- Improve shields to make them more effective in combat.
- Loot rebalancing based on feedback.
LONG-TERM (Coming 4-8 weeks from now)
- Improvements to the final enemy to make him more challenging.
- New and better designed traps.
- New ways to engage with and affect the environment, like the platforms you can rotate.
- Completely new outdoor environment - The Black Forest - a wintry deathscape to explore.
- New Black Forest enemies.
- New potions and scrolls.
- A second playable character, the Brute
NecropolisSP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Roguelike
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Arcanum - Retrospective
RetrospectiveGaming reviews Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Expect some minor spoilers if you have not played before.
From Arcanum wiki -" Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology hold equal sway, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarves, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike. A place of ancient runes and steamworks, of magic and machines, of sorcery and science.
Arcanum is the first game to come from the development house Troika Games, LLC, started by former Fallout team members Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson. This team takes the depth of gameplay and world-building in role-playing games to entirely new levels of realism and excitement.
ArcanumSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Thursday - July 21, 2016
Antharion - 70% off all week
Orphic Software's Antharion is 70% off on Steam until July 26th.
AntharionSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Zavix Tower - Update 1.26
The dungeon crawler Zavix Tower got a big update:
Update 1.26 Achievements and Pylemris
Hey Everyone,
We got achievements, and our last boss here. We also have more mobs (Zombies), and a few more story chunks!
Pylemris is a zombie boss and has become our floor 10 boss, we did this because we think the moving the Klopo fight back will allow users to have 5 more talent points (on average) and more of a chance to gain gold in order to have more skills before the Klopo fight. So to recap, all bosses from 10-30 have moved back 5 floors, and Pylemris is now the floor 10 boss.
Zavix TowerSP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Dungeon Crawler
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Deus Ex: MD - Concept Art @PCGamer
PCGamer looks at some of the concept art that went into the making of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Mankind Divided's world is a lot more fractured and uncertain than it was in Human Revolution, which gives the game a darker, more dystopian feel. All this striking concept image is missing is some music by Vangelis.
This is one of Jensen's new experimental augmentations, the pulsed energy projection system, or PEPS for short. It's a non-lethal projectile that, when upgraded, can target several enemies at once.
Deus Ex: MDSP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: In development
Stardew Valley - Linux and Mac Support on 29th
On twitter it has been announced by ConcernedApe to expect Linux and Mac Support for Stardew Valley on the 29th this month. The 1.1 update is still a work in progress.
Quick Update: Mac & Linux are set to be launched on the 29th! Multiplayer, localizations, and the version 1.1 update are still in progress.
On reddit it has been confirmed that multiplayer will come later than the release of 1.1
Hey, Chucklefish developer here! ConcernedApe is focusing his efforts on delivering a content update with 1.1, while the technical side of multiplayer is being worked on in-house at Chucklefish. As such, multiplayer will come a little further down the line from the 1.1 update.
Stardew ValleySP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Modern
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Vikings - Wolves of Midgard - Announced
@DSOGaming they announce a new action rpg called Vikings - Wolves of Midgard set during the mythical conflict of Ragnarok. Expect the game sometime in 2017 according to Kalypso Media. There are some screenshots at the link provided.
Regarding the game's story, this is what Kalypso Media had to say:
"Legend has it, that when the coldest winter descends, the Jotan will return to take their vengeance against the Gods of Asgard. The world is on the road to perdition and the fate of Midgard hangs in the balance. But when the Fire and Frost Giants begin to merge their armies, they encounter the clan of the Ulfung - the Wolves of Midgard. Bloody, but unbowed following the destruction of their village, this notorious band of ostracized Viking warriors are determined to seize their destiny and save the world. As clan chief, you must save Midgard from complete annihilation, and spearhead the charge to vanquish the fiendish creatures of the Fimbulwinter."
Here are the key features of Vikings - Wolves of Midgard:
- Fantasy Meets Nordic Mythology: Travel the realms of earthly Midgard, freezing Niflheim and boiling Balheim, either as a fierce Viking warrior or merciless shieldmaiden.
- The Deadly Fimbulwinter: Withstand the deathly colds and protect yourself from exposure to nature's wrath in order to survive.
- Tribute to the Gods: Collect blood from fallen enemies and sacrifice it at the altar to gain gifts from the Gods to enhance your powers.
- Berserker Rage: Let your anger take hold by activating Rage Mode to overwhelm your enemies in bloodthirsty combat.
- The art of combat: Perfect your skills with each weapon to unlock their true potential, including swords, bows and spell-powered canes.
- The Power of the Gods: Make the abilities of the Gods your own by equipping power-infused amulets, like the Talismans of Thor or Loki. Put your new skills to the test by competing in the Trials of the Gods to earn further rewards.
- Teamwork: Team up with a friend and journey to the Shores of Midgard together in an epic two player online co-op mode. Choose between four difficulty levels to suit your skills and talents. Do you dare attempt the unrelenting hardcore mode?
- The Clan of Wolves: Restore and rebuild your village and lead your clan to glory. Upgrade buildings such as weaponsmith, armourer, runesmith, and mead hall to unlock more content and better equipment.
- Legendary Weapons: Gather the scattered fragments of mythical weapons and armors to take on the most fearsome creatures of the realms.
- A Class of its Own: Become even more powerful in the next life by attempting New Game+, and push your Viking warrior or shieldmaiden to their limit.
Destructible Environments: Utilize your surroundings by burying your foes under falling rocks or pushing them off high cliffs.
General NewsSP/MP: Unknown
Setting: Unknown
Genre: RPG
Platform: Unknown
Release: In development
DA:Inquisition - Trespasser: An Emotional Theme
Patrick Weekes and John Epler spoke at GDC 2016 about the writing and presentation of DA:I's Trespasser DLC, focusing on how they set out to deliver the story.
DA:InquisitionSP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released
Opinion - Why RPGs are the Stars of the Industry
Gamer Professionals features an op-ed about RPGs and why they're the stars of the video game industry right now.
Additionally, many RPGs present a numerous (if not an infinite) amount of side quests. Side quests are an excellent addition to already extensive plots, giving RPGs a significant amount of replay value. Of course, in cases such as Dragon Age: Inquisition, many side quests were, dare I say…boring? It's a hit and miss, for there are side quests that are utterly pointless and add nothing of significance to the core plot.
Additionally, side quests can offer extra content such as backstories of secondary characters. In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, players have the option to explore the history of each party member. Generally, this depends on the conversations that are exchanged and whether or not the main character responds positively or negatively. For instance, if you earn Carth Onasi's trust, you learn his son has been admitted to the Sith Academy. Once you and your party stumble upon that area, you can choose to use evidence scattered throughout the academy to prove to Carth's son that the Sith are pure evil. He then flees the scene and assures Carth he's going to change his way of life.
I must admit though, it's a lot of fun joining the dark side.
Not only do RPGs offer stimulating stories and lovable characters, they also present unique combat systems, imaginative crafting capabilities, and comprehensive methods to level up characters. For example, in The Witcher 3 crafting has become an addiction for many players, more-so than following the story of Geralt and his multiple lovers, ahem.
General NewsSP/MP: Unknown
Setting: Unknown
Genre: RPG
Platform: Unknown
Release: In development
Wednesday - July 20, 2016
Fallout 4 - Far Harbor Quest Resembles a New Vegas Mod?
Farflame spotted this post from modder BaronVonChateau:
How would you feel if a big publisher inspired itself heavily from one of your work?
Posted by BaronVonChateau on Jul 13th, 2016
Some of you are probably familiar to the quest "Brain Dead" from "Far Harbor", Fallout 4's latest DLC. If not, be wary, [SPOILERS] ahoy!
A few weeks before Fallout 4's release, Autumn Leaves, a Fallout : New Vegas Mod was published on Moddb and the Nexus. It featured a colorful cast of excentric robots, in charge of a forgotten Vault where a strange murder happened. Sounds familiar ?
Maybe, to those who played Far Harbor's "Brain Dead."
A Fallout: New Vegas modder pointed out similarities between his work and a Far Harbor, but Bethesda says it's just a coincidence.
If you're into Fallout: New Vegas mods, you may have played Autumn Leaves, created by modder BaronVonChateau. The mod adds a quest Based around solving a murder mystery in a vault. If that sounds familiar to you, it's because there's also a quest in Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC named "Brain Dead," that has a similar theme.
Fallout 4SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Post-Apoc
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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Closeouts. The extra-large collar of Cole Haan's Sheen down coat can be arranged in a sassy, voluminous poof, or cinched around your face like a hood. Either way, you're toasty warm and delectably stylish.
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Modelling the Matilda Infantry Tank
Modelling the Matilda Infantry Tank
Osprey Publishing (UK), Paperback, 9781841767581, 80pp.
Publication Date: February 25, 2004
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The Matilda tank saw action in almost all theatres of World War II, from Europe to the Pacific. Born in the interwar years, and developed with numerous modifications following combat testing, the Matilda is perhaps most famous for its role in the desert campaigns of 1940-41, thus acquiring its nickname 'Queen of the Desert'. This book provides a detailed guide to modelling the Matilda tank across a variety of types, colour schemes and scales, and features excellent reference photos. Using clearly explained techniques and methods, and featuring the work of several top modellers, this step-by-step guide to building, finishing and displaying the Matilda in European, Western Desert and Australian service presents a creative and enagaging approach to modelling the 'Tilly'.
About the Author
Mark J. Bannerman has been modeling for many years, with a long-standing interest in Allied armor of World War II and figure painting. He was born in 1963 and spent many years living abroad, before graduating in 1986 in Business Administration. He now works as a finance manager in the Department of Education in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is married to Elizabeth, and enjoys travelling, sailing, golf and following European soccer. For the Osprey Modelling series, he has previously authored Modelling Panzer Crewmen of the Heer, Modelling the Matilda Infantry Tank, and Modelling the Churchill Tank. The author lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.


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