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Neverwinter developers Cryptic Studios released an Orc-focused trailer last week, and both PC Gamer and Inside Gaming Daily managed to nab some in-depth previews of the game. Polygon also has a lengthy feature on it, and offers up a generally quite positive opinion.

Oh, and there’s a new developer’s diary out from the team at Cryptic, as well.

Path of Exile’s first season handling league play in-game. It’s an interesting twist on the traditional notion of guilds, if nothing else.

Oh, and if you’re running Apple’s OS X, Beamdog’s remake of Baldur’s Gate is now available to you.

Some new details about the upcoming Deus Ex movie slipped out recently, most notably in this interview with the writers thereof. While Human Revolution will evidently form the basis for the film overall, the intent is not to create a “videogame movie”.

Square Enix, meanwhile, just trademarked Human Defiance…so that’s likely going to be the title of the next Deus Ex game.

BioShock Infinite will have a season pass and tiered rewards for pre-orders…marketing gonna market, I suppose. If you pre-order it via Amazon, you’ll nab about $30 in credit toward other 2K Games titles; pre-ordering via Steam evidently gets you a similar bonus featuring Valve games.

Legend of Grimrock will be getting a sequel.

Curt Schilling’s famous bloody sock is up on the auction block, yet another sale related to the bankruptcy of 38 Studios. On a related note, John Walker at Rock, Paper, Shotgun! just rediscovered Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and has belatedly fallen in love with the game. Take his words as my own, more or less; his description of the game is almost exactly what I would say about it.

Okay, so…let’s talk about Driftmoon for a bit. It’s a 3D indie RPG that features an apparently fixed top-down perspective. I actually picked it up yesterday and played around with the integrated toolkit, which is overall a potentially very useful tool that would-be Ultima fan project developers might want to pay attention to.

Developed by Instant Kingdom, the game is fairly inexpensive to pick up (GOG has it too), and the game seems to make a good impression. It’s not without its flaws, but it has a certain…charm to it that just sucks you in as you play.

It also seems to have a lot of references to Ultima 7 packed into it, which gaming journalist Meghann O’Neill has been tweeting about all day:

Of course, I asked for a screenshot:

That’s pretty awesome, wouldn’t you agree?

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