28 August, 2011
Baldur's Gate II
Release Date: 2000
Platform: PC
Developer: BioWare
Genre: Role-Playing
In 1988, SSI's Gold Box series redefined the Western idea of the RPG genre. They took the single most important set of pen-and-paper rules -- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons -- and tied them to an epic series of campaigns that spanned entire continents and several games, breathing life into Gary Galax's...
05 August, 2011
Quake
Release Date: 1996
Platform: PC
Developer: id Software
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Despite being a pioneer of full three-dimensional graphics in the first-person genre-- or perhaps because of it--Quake is a master class in level design. It's brightly confident in it's grasp of space and solidity; even the difficultly and episode selection is its own memorable environment....