GameBanshee is reporting that a small team has created an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the Infinity Engine called GemRB. At its current stage of development, the engine can be used to play through the entire Baldur's Gate saga, all of Icewind Dale, and some of Icewind Dale II and Planescape: Torment on everything from Linux to the iPad to smartphones, as seen on these YouTube videos. But let's not let the real promise be obfuscated by yet another play-through of those classics - GemRB can be used to build an entirely new Infinity Engine-based game.
Interested in adding signed copies of Planescape: Torment, System Shock 2, Anachronox, Fallout: New Vegas, Star Wars: KotOR II, Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol, Freedom Force, and BioShock to your video game collection? Yeah, I am too.
Finally re-released in complete anthologies, all the classic Dungeon & Dragons PC games you've been dying to replay. Put down Skyrim and get ready for some late 90's nostalgia. Two packages released this Tuesday, the Dungeons & Dragons Classic Anthology, and the Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights Complete Collection.
Planescape: Torment is one of the most revered RPGs ever created. Could there ever be another one? Obsidians Chris Avellone would like make a Planescape sequel but itd be different to Torment, he says.
Comments made by Obsidian Entertainment creative director Chris Avellone indicate that a Planescape-based action RPG was in development at Interplay years ago, before being canceled.
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Through GOG.com, you can now buy Planescape: Torment. Thats Planescape: Torment, as in one of the great roleplaying games of the 1990s, really rather difficult to pick up these days, and temperamental on modern machines even if you could dig out a copy. And here it is, on Good Old Games, for $10, compatible with all modern machines.
GN writes, Planescape Torment has been re-released on a gaming retail site (linked below) as a DVD edition. The classic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (2nd Edition) game is on sale for the next 120 hours, priced at a modest $20. The RPG holds the top of the PC RPG charts to this date, and is definitely worth the investment. See where games like Dragon Age: Origins get their roots, pick up Planescape! The description of the game, as per 'GoGamer' below...
IncGamers reports that listings on both Amazon and PEGI seem to indicate that old Interplay titles, including Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment, may see re-releases later this week.
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