Warlockracy

@warlockracy.bsky.social

I talk about computer RPGs and East Slavic gaming culture. Anarch ethics. DMs open.

when i was a kid, my first inkling that games could be something besides arcade classics like pacman, tetris, and mortal kombat, was finding the Tiberian Sun manual, 56 pages of lore and unit descriptions abandoned at a chinese restaurant as no one wanted it, they left me take it

A picture of 2 books, one is a Command and Conquer Operations Manual with drawings of the chevron logo and giant walking robots, and the other plainer is a Reference Guide
Warlockracy@warlockracy.bsky.social · last yr.

On May 2nd 2011 Seal Team Six raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Among the more curious items recovered by the operatives was an unofficial GameSpot guide for Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, a 1999 strategy game. Video link: youtu.be/deFLXte3MRA?...

Ruthenian Culture Research Unit examines the career of two writers from Kharkiv who worked on a Soviet Fallout 3 clone, a WW2 RTS, dabbled in erotic fantasy, wrote STALKER novels and time-travel fiction… This is a tour of 2005-2015 Eastern Evropean culture. Link: youtu.be/PfLEVnTqIxw

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The recent surprise sequel to NWN1 made me wonder how well the new generation of Neverwinter expansions is selling—I’m guessing not well, considering the lack of reviews. But they can't be very expensive to make, so

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Mutants Rising looks good—and it seems like it has a high chance of actually being released. This is a direct Fallout 2 sequel that’s been in development longer than many of you have been alive.

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The Tangut Prophecy was a Chinese historical RPG built on the FOnline engine, set in 1167. Like many projects on this engine, it was abandoned. Is there even a single completed game made with FOnline?

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