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Gamers Europe has posrted their interview with Patrick Pligersdorfferz. Here is a bit of what they discussed:

"Oh yeah and some stuff about the upcoming Chaos League, possibly one of the most inventive titles this side of Christmas. Expect a PC release in June."

Be sure to click on the link to find out more.

World of Warcraft has a story regarding the departure of Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham. This marks the fifth big-wig that has left Blizzard in recent weeks. He joins former Blizzard North cofounders Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer, and David Brevik, along with Blizzard vice president Bill Roper.

"How much do you know about computer games? How well would you do in comparison to today's leading games developers? It's time to find out..."

"RPGDot: What character from a game or role-playing setting best describes you?

Raphael Colantonio: Can I say Garret from Thief ? Well I bet everybody wants to be Garret so that's not very original, but he's the first character I really identified to in a game."

"RPGDot: And how are chances for a Wizardy 9?
Robert: Yes, absolutely the chances are very good. I can not tell you much more than this. When some decisions and taken, and I have something to report, I will contact you."

"After seeing more games than ever before over three days last week, the first segment of our summary coverage."

Just e-mail them the answer to a simple question located at the page in the link.

"We ask a panel of distinguished online developers for their thoughts on reaching casual gamers and the mass market."

"We have the chance to acquaint ourselves with one of Russia's leading publishers and its action-oriented line-up."

"Overall, Wonderland is a fun little puzzler and while you're not going to be playing it continuously for the next few months, it’s certainly a game you'll want to come back to again and again whenever you find yourself with a break."

"Chaos reigns in Europe as the Allied Armies free more and more countries from the grasp of the Nazis. As the German and Allied armies clash in final battle, mysterious orders stop the US Army under Patton from occupying a small area in the dark and forbidding valleys of the Erzgebirge. The town of Schwarzenberg becomes a sealed off no-access area, surrounded by US Forces and the tanks of the Red Army."

"Just imagine that you are in a bar and having an in-depth discussion with a developer of online games. Our online games expert, Logan has done something like that, but then without the bar and without the drinks and without meeting someone in real life. This time Logan has had the chance to talk with Travis McGeathy of VR1 (who were working on Lost Continents) about Inflation, deflation and economy in online games."

"We have posted the second of our interviews asking members of Artifact Entertainment what they do to prepare for E3. This interview is with Todd Jones the Assistant Producer and Audio Director."

"We have conducted some interviews with key members of Artifact Entertainment, asking them what they do to prepare for E3. The first of these interviews is with the Creative Director, David Bowman."

"Designer Daniel James and CTO Michael Bayne give us the scoop on Three Ring's intriguing open-source Java online game."

"This year's Game Developers Conference took place in California last week, and here's what we saw and heard."

"Dirk de Boeck is better known to most as Dante. He is the Lead Story Programmer for Divine Divinity, Larian Studios upcoming RPG. Like others before him he filled in the answers to a few questions we put to him."

"Once again, this interview is done by our new team member Logan and discusses various aspects from this upcoming MMORPG."

"In Endless Ages, multiple species converge on this realm known as Iia, and find opportunities to eke out new lives, either belligerently or peacefully. Avaria Founder Aaron Boucher and Vice President Justin Gonzalez tell us about a comprehensive range of subjects related to the project's development and gameplay in our Endless Ages Interview."

"In Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes, players will create their own superheroes, then venture forth to fight super-villains, aliens, madmen, underground monsters, gangsters and more. As the project moves forward, our City of Heroes intelligence Report takes a look at the information known about this extremely intriguing title."

"With Arx Fatalis in late development at France's Arkane Studios, we were lucky to obtain our new Arx Fatalis Development Report #6 in which Lead Designer, Producer and Arkane Studios Founder Raphael Colantonio offers us a mini-update with the latest information on the game's development status."

Expert Edition allows players to embody many Deities and control new sets of Creatures. Each game played earns Deities points that can be used to strengthen their powers and abilities and those of their Servants. A global ranking system provides a complete set of stats and keeps track of every game. Richer strategic approaches and challenge-filled games await players.

"As we return to our continuing series of interviews with leading developers working in the online genre, we are very pleased to present our new Eric Wang Online Worlds Interview in which we have the chance to query one of the leaders of Westwood Studios' Earth and Beyond Online team about the present and future of the category, his background, his current role and more."

"The path for independent developer start-ups isn’t an easy one. Quite some time ago, we learned of one such group in Denmark called Pentagang. A few weeks ago, we checked out its website and found that work was progressing on its project, a fantasy-based CRPG entitled Kastogore , so we arranged our Kastogore Interview with Game Producer and Concept Artist Michael Rahbek."

In it Grischa Jacobs tells a bit about his developing work for Divinity.

"Earlier today, BioWare announced the appointment of Jay Watamaniuk to the recently created position of Community Manager. Fans may recognize him from the boards where he has been having fun describing himself as a secret employee. With his secret revealed, we had the chance to find out about him and his new job in our BioWare Developer Profile: Jay Watamaniuk."

RPGDot's latest trip to the world of Arx Fatalis takes us to the Dwarf Mines. As usual, we have some nice screenshots from this never before seen area (the screens are taken from the very latest built, which arrived at Fishtank's only yesterday)

Originally known as Divinity: The Sword of Lies, it reportedly features a sprawling gameworld with a high level of interactivity, over 100 different adversary types, even more NPCs, and an extensive skill system. RPG vault offers a fact sheet-style look at what is known at this time.

"However with 13 I saw for the first time in my life a computer right in front of me (remember I am from East Germany and computers where rare and everything but cheap). From that moment, I spent a lot of time with computers. I didn't realize it immediately but after some years I knew I wanted to do something with computers. In fact I wanted to become a programmer."

"Depicting a future full of conflict, DarkSpace is a massively multiplayer space simulation currently in open beta and being readied for release. As such, and with news of a launch partner coming soon, we decided to contact Richard Lyle of developer Palestar, who was happy to participate in this extensive DarkSpace Interview that comes with eight all-new screenshots."

"Besides the scary atmosphere, its also a very dangerous location. One false step and you can easily stumble into traps or activate them by accident. Of course, there are also dangerous creatures lurking in the dark. Hungry rats are the more harmless ones compared to the walking undead and mummies. The living dead are just waiting for intruders who will join their ranks."

"The large majority of new online world projects that come to our attention are based to a significant extent in the realm of high fantasy. Among the games that eschew fantasy, science fiction dominates. In late August, we received word of a new UK-based developer called RedBedlam and its online world project."

"The game uses 2D pre-rendered backgrounds, which are very nicely detailed and animated, the characters however are 3D models and are made of up to 1000 polygons which for most of the time animate smoothly and integrate reasonably well into the backgrounds. While the backgrounds are very well detailed the game does load them very quickly...."

Dale Lullo: "We're great considering we're a week away from going gold and five weeks from launch...."
Click on the link to read the full interview.

Within the computer gaming industry, there are very few if any people who don?t instantly recognize the name BioWare. Today, Joint CEOs and Co-Executive Producers Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka talk about their highly-regarded company, its history, Baldur?s Gate, the CRPG genre and more in our new BioWare 2001 Interview, Part 1.

Horizons creator David Allan announced in an open letter to the gaming community that he has not been actively involved with it since mid-July. At the same time, he revealed the formation of a new company, Pharaoh Productions. Our intrepid Associate Editor Ulairi was able to contact David very soon thereafter for today’s Pharaoh Productions Interview.

Arx Fatalis Intelligence Report Arx Fatalis is the 3D first-person RPG in development by the team at Arkane Studios, a group that freely admits their game pays homage to the heritage of The Stygian Abyss and Labyrinth of Worlds, the outstanding Ultima Underworld titles. We sum up what's known about this title and its current development status in our Arx Fatalis Intelligence Report.

"The character animations have been done by motion capturing a real life actor and the character on the screen did move and fight in a very realistic way, so they seemed to have integrated it very well. The part which was shown covered some outside terrain, which looked really well actually, even for such an early alpha."

Freedom Force Intelligence Report Following the critically acclaimed System Shock 2, Irrational Games' next PC project is certainly an intriguing one, a superhero-themed strategy RPG. In our Freedom Force Intelligence Report, we take a look at what's currently known about this colorful, comic book-influenced title.

Valhalla Chronicles Interview Paradox Entertainment is hard at work on Valhalla Chronicles, a single-player CRPG based on the interesting combination of Norse mythology and pre-eleventh century European history. We learn more in today’s informative Valhalla Chronicles Interview with Producer Christofer Sundberg and Creative Designer Odd Ahlgren. Four screenshots are included.

"I found the graphics in Stunt GP to be very bland. They look crisp enough, pretty bright, and almost colourful, but there are no special effects of any kind to be seen - dynamic lighting, lens flare.. even things that basic aren't there. It's just bland in appearance. Of course the framerate stays high consistently because of this, so it's not ALL bad... but it's still not what you would expect from a modern titl