We’re celebrating inXile’s 20th year as a game studio with a look back through our history; where we came from, obstacles along the way, and our studio’s future. But it’s the challenges that made us who we are, and we’re sharing never before heard stories about our history, our g
We’re celebrating inXile’s 20th year as a game studio with a look back through our history; where we came from, obstacles along the way, and our studio’s future. But it’s the challenges that made us who we are, and we’re sharing never before heard stories about our history, our games (including some that were never released), and how becoming an Xbox Game Studio has changed our trajectory forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzAna_ovGfQ As you’ll learn in the documentary, it’s really our fans and those that helped support us directly through crowdfunding that kept the studio going, and we’d like to once again thank anyone who backed a game, told a friend about us, or even just liked a post promoting a backer campaign. Even those small interactions absolutely made a difference in our lives, and we survived as a studio on the support of people who like to play the kinds of games we like making.
We hope you enjoy this look back at the last 20 years and continue to join us in our game worlds as we look toward the next 20. We can’t wait to show you more.
The entire inXile catalog is on sale from now until April 12 as part of the Xbox Game Studios Publisher Sale. With some of our deepest Steam discounts to date, you can grab the critically acclaimed and award-winning Wasteland 3 for 50% off, Torment: Tides of Numenera and The Bard
The entire inXile catalog is on sale from now until April 12 as part of the Xbox Game Studios Publisher Sale. With some of our deepest Steam discounts to date, you can grab the critically acclaimed and award-winning Wasteland 3 for 50% off, Torment: Tides of Numenera and The Bard's Tale IV are both 75% off, and more!
As part of GOG's Winter Sale, Wasteland 2 is available to download and play for free, but be quick because the offer is only around for 48 hours. This free edition of Wasteland 2 is the Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition that includes the original Wasteland that was first rel
As part of GOG's Winter Sale, Wasteland 2 is available to download and play for free, but be quick because the offer is only around for 48 hours. This free edition of Wasteland 2 is the Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition that includes the original Wasteland that was first released in 1988.
Wasteland 2 is a post-apocalyptic RPG where you and your ragtag recruits band together to create a group called the Desert Rangers. After one of your group gets brutally murdered, you need to pick up the investigation where they left off, fighting huge robots and exploring the wastes of post-nuke Arizona. In our review for Wasteland 2, Cory gave it an 83 giving it's writing and RPG elements high praises.
This is the perfect opportunity to get into the Wasteland games, with Wasteland 3 releasing early next year. Wasteland 3 ran a successful crowdfunding campaign and the developers, inXile, raised more than $3 million. A new trailer and game footage was shown at E3 2019 so check out everything we know about Wasteland 3 to feast your eyes on what's new in the series.
This giveaway ends December 12 so make sure you head on over to GOG.com to download it.
Look! A ranking of the 50 best RPGs on PC. I know, you never asked for this, but here it is. It is 100 percent correct, we double-checked. The RPG is a broad and deep sea and fishing out the best games from its characterful waters is no easy task. But we are capable fishers on th
Look! A ranking of the 50 best RPGs on PC. I know, you never asked for this, but here it is. It is 100 percent correct, we double-checked. The RPG is a broad and deep sea and fishing out the best games from its characterful waters is no easy task. But we are capable fishers on the good ship RPS, and know when to humanely throw back a tiddler or fight to heave up a monster. Enough of this salty metaphor. Here are the 50 best RPGs you can play on PC today.
Save up to 75% on Post-Apocalyptic games as part of the Post-Apocalyptic Weekend*! Deals Include: - Day Z - 30% Off - Fallout 4 - 50% Off - Primordia - 70% Off - Wasteland 2 - 70% Off - The Long Dark - 66% Off - Borderlands 2 - 75% Off - Frostpunk - 40% Off - and over 100 other P
Save up to 75% on Post-Apocalyptic games as part of the Post-Apocalyptic Weekend*!
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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 Micros
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, only they'll have more resources and support available to "fully realise" their ambitions. Nevertheless, questions remained.
Both companies are tied up in crowdfunding - particularly inXile, which has Wasteland 3 still to deliver - so what happens there? And what happens to promised PlayStation 4 versions of games - can they still fulfil those as Xbox studios? Moreover, will they leave isometric games behind in favour of glitzier projects?
For this interview, I'm concentrating on inXile, speaking with company founder and video game veteran, Brian Fargo, about the Microsoft deal. I hope to do similar for Obsidian, and I am in contact with the studio, but it's proving trickier to organise.
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
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 to Microsoft Studios, while enabling the studio to preserve its unique culture and build on its talent and vision to fully realise their creative ambitions."
Hot on the heels of the addition of game downloads to previously stream-only subscription service PlayStation Now , Sony has announced a raft of new games now live on the service. Highlights include inXile's post-apocalyptic role-playing game Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, Bethesda
While it still bears some reputation as a scrappy little browser-game toolset (and that’s no bad thing – it enabled much of the GMTK 2018 jam recently ), ubiquitous game development platform Unity has spread to all corners. While I don’t have a single creative bone in my body, th
While it still bears some reputation as a scrappy little browser-game toolset (and that’s no bad thing – it enabled much of the GMTK 2018 jam recently), ubiquitous game development platform Unity has spread to all corners. While I don’t have a single creative bone in my body, the Humble Unity Bundle contains a pile of Unity tools and assets to build your dream game. Even if you’re not the creative type, there’s some good Unity-based games in here too, including ninja sneak ’em up Shadow Tactics, teen horror adventure Oxenfree and moody tearjerker The Last Day Of June.
The Humble Unity Bundle , featuring games built with the Unity game engine, is maybe not the most excitingly-named Humble Bundle of all time, but it's definitely one of the better packages to come along in a very long time. For $1, you'll get Oxenfree and Aer: Memories of Old, pl
The Humble Unity Bundle, featuring games built with the Unity game engine, is maybe not the most excitingly-named Humble Bundle of all time, but it's definitely one of the better packages to come along in a very long time. For $1, you'll get Oxenfree and Aer: Memories of Old, plus Inventory Pro, UFPS: Ultimate FPS, and FlowCanvas, which are not actually games but asset packs from the Unity Asset Store.
Things start to get interesting when you beat the average price, which is already over $10. That'll get you Wasteland 2 Director's Cut, The Final Station, Last Day of June, and three more Unity asset packs: Realistic Effects Pack 4, Ultimate Game Music Collection, and GameFlow.
At the top tier of $15 (and given how quickly the average price has climbed, you might as well just go right to the top) you'll also get Torment: Tides of Numenera, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, and four more Unity packs: Discover Unity Game Development – From Zero to 12 Games, uMMORPG, Heroic Fantasy Creatures Full Pack Vol. 1, Universal Sound FX, and Gaia.
The bundle is clearly aimed first and foremost at people who are making games for fun and/or profit, but even if that's not your bag there's a lot here to like. Wasteland 2, Final Station, Torment, Shadow Tactics, and Oxenfree are all excellent, and Last Day of June and Aer are quite good too. Your mileage may vary, obviously (Unity is nothing if not flexible) but there's really not a weak entry anywhere to be seen.
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In the mid-to-late 2000s, publishers abandoned the CRPG genre an acronym describing the very specific genre of video games adapted from tabletop RPGs to be played on computers which a decade earlier had been a cornerstone of PC gaming. They were more interested in accessible, con
In the mid-to-late 2000s, publishers abandoned the CRPG genre an acronym describing the very specific genre of video games adapted from tabletop RPGs to be played on computers which a decade earlier had been a cornerstone of PC gaming. They were more interested in accessible, console-friendly series like Mass Effect and The Elder Scrolls, and PC-centric RPGs all but died out.
Then, around 2012, RPGs made a comeback, largely thanks to the rise of crowdfunding and an endless well of nostalgia. Since then we ve been treated to heaps of good ones Divinity: Original Sin, Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera and there are plenty more in the works. But there s no guarantee that CRPGs are back for good. Some, such as Torment, haven t sold well. The future of crowdfunding remains uncertain. And asking fans to commit 50 hours to a single story is more difficult than ever, given the volume of great games that release every month. So how can developers ensure that the genre stays relevant?
inXile Entertainment is proud to announce the Wasteland 30th Anniversary Bundle, a celebration of the video game series which launched the post-apocalyptic genre in video gaming and inspired successors such as the Fallout series. The bundle includes items from across the history
inXile Entertainment is proud to announce the Wasteland 30th Anniversary Bundle, a celebration of the video game series which launched the post-apocalyptic genre in video gaming and inspired successors such as the Fallout series. The bundle includes items from across the history of the series, along with two new items - a musical track by Mark Morgan, which represents the first publicly available new content from 2019’s Wasteland 3, and a currently in pre-production 30th anniversary remaster of the original Wasteland by Krome Studios (currently partnered with inXile on a similar remaster of The Bard’s Tale Trilogy).
Items in the Wasteland 30th Anniversary Edition Bundle include:
Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic
Wasteland - 30th Anniversary Edition remaster (due early 2019)
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Digital Extras:
- Wasteland 3 Music Track "Frozen Waste"
- Wasteland 2 Novella: All Bad Things
- Wasteland 2 Novella: The Earth Transformed Ghost Book One
- Wasteland 2 Novella: Death Machines Ghost Book Two
- Wasteland 2 Concept Art Book
- Wasteland 2 Choir Songs EP
- Wasteland 2 Original Soundtrack
This bundle will contain all the items listed above and be sold for $44.99, launching at 10% discount in celebration of the game’s anniversary. When Wasteland - 30th Anniversary Edition is released, it will also be added to the libraries of customers who purchased the bundle at no additional cost.
The signature item of this bundle is Wasteland - 30th Anniversary Edition, a remastering of the first game that will feature updated graphics (which maintain the spirit of the original pixel art), run natively in current operating systems and at all current resolutions, and offer other quality of life features. This work is being done by Krome Studios, the team currently behind a similar remastering of The Bard’s Tale Trilogy.
The Wasteland - 30th Anniversary Edition remaster is currently in pre-production, with an expected completion date of early 2019. Anyone who purchases the bundle prior to then will receive the game at no additional cost upon release.
The Humble Classics Return Bundle is an impressive collection of games for oldsters and people who'd like to try playing as one. One single, solitary dollar is all you need for Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse, Shadowrun Returns, Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure, and Shado
The Humble Classics Return Bundle is an impressive collection of games for oldsters and people who'd like to try playing as one. One single, solitary dollar is all you need for Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse, Shadowrun Returns, Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director's Cut. But if you have more dollars, you get more games.
Shadowrun: Hong King Extended Edition, Wasteland 2: Director's Cut Digital Deluxe Edition, Age of Wonders 3, and Xenonauts will be added to the mix for beating the average purchase price, which right now is about seven bucks. And at the top tier of $15 or more, you'll also get Torment: Tides of Numenera and Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut Edition. The Tesla Effect soundtrack is also included at any tier, and Mark Morgan's excellent Wasteland 2 soundtrack comes in at the beat-the-average price.
It's obviously a very narrative-intensive bundle and that's not going to be for everyone, but it's a great deal for anyone with even a passing interest in RPGs or adventures: Most of the games in the bundle are worth the $15 price tag entirely on their own. The Humble Classics Return Bundle will be available until March 6.
Save up to 75% during The Classics Return Weekend Deal*! Games included are: Wasteland 2 50% Off Age of Wonders III 75% Off Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition 66% Off and MORE *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
Save up to 75% during The Classics Return Weekend Deal*!
Games included are:
Wasteland 2 50% Off Age of Wonders III 75% Off Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition 66% Off and MORE
It’s Summer Games Done Quick time again! You know what that means. The final seal has been broken, the rivers are turning to blood, and High Dread Azagorath is free to destroy the land. But while people wait, they’re doing speed-runs. And in celebration of that, I thought I’d tak
It’s Summer Games Done Quick time again! You know what that means. The final seal has been broken, the rivers are turning to blood, and High Dread Azagorath is free to destroy the land. But while people wait, they’re doing speed-runs. And in celebration of that, I thought I’d take a dig through the archives for a few particularly impressive and interesting ones that take that whole idea of a fifty hour epic and beat it down so quickly, the hero’s hometown doesn’t even have time to finish smouldering.
Hello everyone, When we came to Kickstarter to make Wasteland 2 back in 2012, our backers provided us a unique opportunity to bring about the return of classic-style RPGs. In addition to backers, those of you who directly purchased the game here on Steam contributed enormously to
Hello everyone,
When we came to Kickstarter to make Wasteland 2 back in 2012, our backers provided us a unique opportunity to bring about the return of classic-style RPGs. In addition to backers, those of you who directly purchased the game here on Steam contributed enormously to creating and supporting our making more RPGs. We want to extend thanks to not just backers, but our Steam audience and fan community as well.
Wasteland 2 isn't the only game we've crowdfunded and released. Our second title, Torment: Tides of Numenera, was Kickstarted in 2013, and was released earlier this year. We have been absolutely thrilled with the reception, with a great Metacritic score and tons of positive comments from RPG fans who have enjoyed this deep, story-driven experience.
As a thanks to all of our community members who have supported our games, we’re offering all Wasteland 2 owners an exclusive 25% off coupon towards Torment: Tides of Numenera! If you don't yet own Torment, now is a great time to check it out. If you do own it, you can trade the coupon to a friend if you prefer!
To find your coupon, just check your Steam Inventory by checking under your user profile!
Torment will only continue to get better. In addition to patches, we’ll also be adding a new companion, Oom, an in-game encyclopedia in the form of the Voluminous Codex, and other tweaks and enhancements, in a future content update. This content will be free to all owners of the game.
Thank you once again for playing Wasteland 2 and supporting classic-style RPGs. We hope we can keep bringing you more awesome experiences in the years to come!
Hello Rangers, Our next game, Wasteland 3 , is in the final few hours of its crowdfunding campaign. We've had an incredible success and are honored to have so many supporters around the world. Wasteland 3 will be our richest, most detailed game yet. The depth of writing, visual e
Hello Rangers,
Our next game, Wasteland 3, is in the final few hours of its crowdfunding campaign. We've had an incredible success and are honored to have so many supporters around the world.
Wasteland 3 will be our richest, most detailed game yet. The depth of writing, visual effects, balancing and polish will be on a new level for inXile. We could not be more confident in what we are working towards, and we will make you proud again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYUgRdp0EE
This time, we've got a new setting, vehicles, story-driven multiplayer co-op, revamped combat, and some great visuals and art direction. You can look at our first gameplay snippet above.
We hope you like what you see, and if you want to get in on our backer-exclusive rewards, consider pledging to support the game's development. Crowdfunding remains an extremely important part of our games and it ensures we can continue to stay independent making the titles you love.
Wasteland 2's M.A.D. Monks worship nukes, and Titan is their god. Wasteland 2 was a post-apocalyptic game with a wasteland that truly felt like one. A lot of it was empty. A lot of it was irradiated. The Canyon of Titan was one of its most heavily irradiated locations, surrounded
Wasteland 2's M.A.D. Monks worship nukes, and Titan is their god.
Wasteland 2 was a post-apocalyptic game with a wasteland that truly felt like one. A lot of it was empty. A lot of it was irradiated. The Canyon of Titan was one of its most heavily irradiated locations, surrounded by so many bright yellow warnings they looked like badges on a punk's jacket, but it was also one of the least empty. It buzzed with life and gamma rays. With Wasteland 3 on the way, there's no better slice of Wasteland 2 for inXile to use as a model for its new snowy post-apocalypse.
Titan's heavy radiation ensures you can't stumble into the Canyon at the start of the game. You need to get some wandering under your belt first, and also find a set of high-quality radiation suits for your squad of Desert Rangers. To get those you'll need to have followed a string of quests repair a radio tower and investigate the murder of a fellow Ranger, choose to save either Highpool or the Ag Center, visit the Rail Nomads, and then explore a former prison turned into the bleak settlement of Happy Valley by Red Skorpion raiders.
You'll have probably done all that in the company of Angela Deth yep, that's her real name, she's one of the PCs from the original Wasteland a high-level gift of a squad member who immediately leaves your party once you arrive at the Canyon. A crackling radio message, fuzzy and full of radiation interference, calls her away on urgent business and leaves you and your batch of less competent Desert Rangers to stumble through the Canyon on your own.
With your moral compass and most competent party member gone you re left to encounter the Canyon without guidance, free to be as responsible or monstrous as you please. Nobody will tell you that you ve made the wrong choice here, because there are no wrong choices.
The Canyon of Titan is densely packed with cool stuff to discover.
Between giant flowering cactuses and piles of scrap, the distinguishing feature of the Canyon is its craters. They've been left behind by the M.A.D Monks, a cult who worship nuclear weapons. Their god is called Titan, a leftover nuke from before the war, and they've gained control of the Canyon through what they call Titan's Peace (which everyone else calls Mutually Assured Destruction). They're like the Children of the Atom from Fallout 3, only with a bigger area of worship than the wimpy puddle at the bottom of Megaton.
Nobody will tell you that you ve made the wrong choice here, because there are no wrong choices.
To make it through the monk's checkpoints you have to agree to be accompanied by one of their escorts with a Nuka grenade strapped to his back. Since everyone else who wants to pass through has the same, whether trader or raider, the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction should keep the violence at a minimum and yet those plentiful crater marks suggest otherwise.
If you choose to take an escort monk with you the Canyon's raiders won't attack and even become oddly polite. They'll let you rifle through their crates of gear, although the glowing nuclear goop some of them stockpile is another matter. Collecting some of that goop for a quest the monks give you requires either bargaining with the raiders, who will try to convince you it's a valuable tonic, or travelling to less hospitable corners of the canyon that are protected by angry mutant honey badgers.
Honey badgers will mess you up.
While these non-violent meetings with raiders are a pleasant change of pace, Titan's Peace has its downsides. Several encounters play out in the Canyon in which suicide monks detonate their grenades and leave more of those craters. One attempts to protect his charge by running up to her attacker and detonating, but catches her in the blast. Though she survives, by the time you reach her she's begging for death. Meanwhile, two traders on a narrow path each refuse to move their pig-drawn carts and let the other pass, leading to an explosive confrontation and two dead traders. The stories of the Canyon go from bleak to ridiculous one moment to the next. The rest of Wasteland 2 is rarely as willing to poke fun even though it s a game where the greatest treasures are hidden in toasters and you can recruit goats as allies.
There's another faction in the Canyon as well, one who is less in love with the Great Glow. The Diamondback Militia are organized and well-armed survivalists with a plan to take the Canyon for themselves, supplanting the monks and keeping a version of the peace that they say will lead to less death. It's possible to side with the DBM instead, but according to the water traders of the Canyon they're no better than raiders themselves, robbing the people they rescue and then abandoning them to die. Like the Red Skorpions of Happy Valley, their protection may come at a high cost.
Things tend to get out of hand in the Canyon.
Between these two factions and a variety of colorful encounters with other odd locals, the Canyon feels alive and full of incident in a way that much of Arizona doesn't. Wasteland 2's second half, set in Los Angeles, comes close to this level diversity with locations like Angel Core, where the polite but murderous Mannerites and the positive-thinking but power-mad Robbinsons are preparing to go to war over philosophies learned from pre-war self-help books. Unfortunately the second half of Wasteland 2 is also buggier and full of sidequests left hanging, never quite as satisfying as the Arizona half of the map.
It's a moment where Wasteland 2 lived up to its reputation as a return to the complexity of the original Fallout games.
The Canyon of Titan builds to a neater resolution. Whoever you side with, eventually you discover that Titan's Wrath is a lie. The nuclear weapon underneath the temple has no payload, and can never be detonated. However, the monks have found another nuke out at Silo 7 that does contain a payload and plan to recover it before their secret gets out. The DBM want this nuke as well, and the final choice over what to do with it comes down to you.
The untrustworthy fanatics or the untrustworthy paranoiacs, who should get the bomb? You can pull a pox on both your houses and try to disarm it yourself, but that has consequences too. Without the threat of Titan's Wrath what will hold back the raiders? And how will the faithful monks react to learning their gods can be killed? It's going to be a mess no matter what, it's simply a matter of choosing which kind of mess you'd rather clean up. It s a moment where Wasteland 2 lived up to its reputation as a return to the complexity of the original Fallout games, where every situation had multiple solutions and you defined yourself by how you tackled them.
What good is having a nuke if you're not going to set it off?
The Canyon of Titan tells a self-contained story in the middle of a game that sprawls a little too far. This one pocket of the setting is jammed with stuff. There's a vendor who will sell you the 3 Amigos costumes, buried treasure to be found, and a swarm of mutant gila monsters. In an optional area underneath the Temple of Titan it even hides a neat infiltration mission, the one place in Wasteland 2 where stealth feels like a valid option. Wasteland 3 is taking the series to the frozen north of Colorado where things will presumably be very different to the deserts of Arizona, but I hope there's room for more of these independent adventures that illustrate some of the stranger places post-apocalyptic storytelling can go.
We already knew Wasteland 3 was coming out and that it was set in the frozen hinterlands of Colorado, because we have an incredible repository of knowledge and wisdom. But we didn t know exactly what would be waiting for us there. A short trailer accompanied the game s crowdfundi
We already knew Wasteland 3 [official site] was coming out and that it was set in the frozen hinterlands of Colorado, because we have an incredible repository of knowledge and wisdom. But we didn t know exactly what would be waiting for us there. A short trailer accompanied the game s crowdfunding launch on Fig today and it reveals what we should have guessed all along. The only thing waiting for us in the frozen north is death by a cannibal s axe. But there are some other details. Come see.
I ain’t looked too close at Torment: Tides of Nutella , even despite having its alpha installed on my PC, because if I’m gonna do this thing, I want to do it cold and I want to do it complete. But lately I realised that I knew barely a thing about inXile’s spiritual sequel to rev
I ain’t looked too close at Torment: Tides of Nutella [official site], even despite having its alpha installed on my PC, because if I’m gonna do this thing, I want to do it cold and I want to do it complete. But lately I realised that I knew barely a thing about inXile’s spiritual sequel to revered-by-the-sort-of-people-who-revere-cRPGs cRPG Planescape: Torment, and had nothing more than a loose expectation of similarity. Turns out this latest video was something of a solution for me: it focuses on describing and showing off Numenera’s strange new world and weird technologies, as opposed to dwelling specifically on the player’s journey through it.
