In just under a month, Wizards of the Coast will bring back the Icewind Dale campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s kind of a big deal. Fans have been chomping at the bit to get their hands on the new adventure book since the announcement earlier this year. WotC is giving it the full […]
Minecraft Dungeons Review – Familiarity Needs Content
Minecraft Dungeons is a roller-coaster ride of an action/RPG, giving new players a fairly deep representation of the genre while providing veterans a nice diversion from traditionally grimdark trappings. Minecraft’s familiar world, tools, and other elements seamlessly make the transition from the mainline series. Its suite of enemies is a natural fit for this type […]
Minecraft Dungeons — Video Review
Minecraft Dungeons may be the perfect starting point for newcomers looking to dip their toes into the action RPG genre or for someone looking to have a relaxed playthrough in a game world they know and love. But, according to our own Jeff Cork’s thorough and well-written review, hardcore fans of games such as Diablo […]
Minecraft Dungeons Features A Nod To One Of Diablo's Best Secrets
Minecraft Dungeons wears its inspirations on its sleeve, taking a formula popularized by many action role-playing games and giving it an easier, more accessible spin. It’s difficult to talk about action RPGs without mentioning Blizzard’s Diablo series, with Minecraft Dungeons featuring its own nod to the franchise. When the first Diablo launched, players were adamant […]
Minecraft Dungeons, Cities: Skylines coming to Xbox Game Pass this month
Xbox Game Pass for Console subscribers will gain access to Alan Wake and Cities: Skylines on Thursday. Minecraft Dungeons will become available on its May 26 release date, too. These games, as well as Plebby Quest: The Crusades, will be available for Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers “coming soon,” Microsoft says. Remedy Entertainment announced […]
Free Dungeons & Dragons Content Continues Into May
The creators of Dungeons & Dragons will be releasing more free content throughout May, in order to make the self-isolation period go a little faster. Dungeons & Dragons was intended to be a social hobby, but it’s not always easy to get a group of five or six people together on a regular basis for gaming. Indeed, many […]
Psionics Return To Dungeons & Dragons With Updated UA
Psionics have been an important part of Dungeons & Dragons for multiple editions, but it hasn’t yet come to 5th Edition so far. While Arcane and Divine magic appear in the current edition, the magic of the mind has only appeared in Wizards of the Coast’s playtesting publication, Unearthed Arcana. The most recent release of […]
Minecraft Dungeons massages all the arguments out of Diablo’s formula
Playing a Diablo-style hack-n-slash game with up to three small children sounds like a nightmare scenario, with players squabbling over equipment, support, and leveling. The genius of Minecraft Dungeons is that each of these potential fights have been neatly edited out of the game, or at least mitigated to such an extent than it’s a […]
Minecraft Dungeons Devs "Don’t Care" If Game Is Unbalanced, "Because It’s Fun"
The upcoming dungeon crawler, Minecraft Dungeons, will reportedly give players ways to make their characters absurdly overpowered. Not only that, but the developers don’t really seem to care too much if it makes the game unbalanced, “because it’s fun”. Minecraft Dungeons of course follows up Minecraft, one of the most successful and widely recognizable video games of […]
Dungeons & Dragons: What’s Better, A Paper Or Digital Character Sheet?
As it often does, the unstoppable flow of progress has engulfed Dungeons & Dragons. What was once the lowest tech entertainment you could enjoy on a Saturday night is now often augmented by technology. Most notable is the increasing use of digital character sheets. Newer players often say that they like the ease of managing […]