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Steam News · Nov 19, 2018
InXile acquired by Microsoft: the interview
On Saturday 10th November, Microsoft announced buying Californian role-playing game developers inXile Entertainment and Obsidian Entertainment. Two studios independent which had fought for survival for a decade-and-a-half were now under the Xbox umbrella. The message from Microsoft was reassurance: don't worry, nothing will change, we won't kill them - they'll continue to make the games you love, ...
Steam News · Nov 10, 2018
Oh my RPG, Microsoft is buying Obsidian Entertainment and inXile
The rumours were true: Microsoft Studios is buying Obsidian Entertainment. It's also, in an unexpected twist, buying inXile Entertainment. The acquisitions were announced during the X018 fan event in Mexico today. In a statement sent to Eurogamer, Microsoft said of Obsidian: "As one of the industry's premiere RPG developers, we couldn't be more excited about the opportunity to add their expertise ...
Steam News · Oct 26, 2017
The Bard's Tale Remastered & Resnarkled now live on Steam!
Hi everyone, as part of our 15th Anniversary Celebration, we're updating The Bard's Tale with a new Remastered and Resnarkled Edition. This will be the new standard edition of the game. For those of you who already own The Bard's Tale, no worries! Your version will be updated automatically for free! The Bard's Tale Remastered & Resnarkled features the following updates: Updated splash screen and a...
Steam News · Nov 9, 2015
The RPG Scrollbars: Manual Override
I miss manuals and their kin. They re often still provided with games, I suppose; usually PDFs to explain how to play and to give jerks on forums something to insist you RTF if you dare complain that something isn t clear enough. I m not really thinking of that side of things though, but the ones that felt like they were part of the overall experience. The in-world documents. The...
Steam News · Jun 4, 2015
The Bard's Tale IV In-Engine Video
Greetings Exiles, We finally put the finishing touches on the video for The Bard’s Tale IV In-Engine Video. The biggest question we get is how we plan to bring the genre forward, and this video should answer the question! For the full gameplay video and Kickstarter update text, check here:
Steam News · Jun 2, 2015
The Bard's Tale IV Kickstarter launched!
Greetings Exiles, It's been a long time. Released 30 years ago, Tales of the Unknown: The Bard's Tale was released to glowing reception and quickly became a defining role-playing game of the 80s, inspiring countless games and putting Interplay and Brian Fargo on the map. But it's been many years since we had a follow-up to the series. In 2004, Brian and inXile released The Bard's Tale, a console-o...
Steam News · May 18, 2015
Epic Lute: Brian Fargo On Bringing Back The Bard s Tale
Having successfully brought Wasteland back to life with the help of 61,920 of its closest friends, Brian Fargo and inXile Entertainment are turning their attentions to another classic RPG The Bard s Tale . Forget the appalling comedy vacuum from a few years ago, this is The Actual Bard s Tale IV, both a return to and modernisation of dungeon crawling with a few new tricks up it...
Steam News · Jan 26, 2015
Brian Fargo s Eighties Disco: The Bard s Tale IV
Brian Fargo and the inXile team s next project will be another revival of an Interplay oldie. Following the success of Wasteland 2, the studio is now turning its attention to The Bard s Tale, the fantasy dungeon crawling series last seen in 1988 (inXile s own exhaustingly unfunny parody is an official Bard s Tale game so let s ignore it). Fargo announced the game at P...
Steam News · Oct 31, 2013
Humble Bundle features Ticket to Ride, Worms Reloaded
Humble is going cross-platform again for its latest 'Humble Bundle with Android' sale. Players will be able to pay what they want for four games, all of which are available on PC, Mac, Linux, and Android, while paying more than the average to toss in Worms Reloaded (along with the mobile version of Worms 2: Armageddon) and 2004 action-RPG The Bard's Tale.