It's been a relatively quiet year for PC role-playing games, but that should change later this autumn when Activision and Troika release Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, an action RPG set in the rich White Wolf pen-and-paper role-playing game universe. There's been quite a bit of attention focused on Bloodlines, due to the fact that it's the first game outside of Valve to use the Source engine, the same technology that powers Half-Life 2. There's also the fact that it's being developed by Troika, a studio with a strong reputation for role-playing games. Leonard Boyarsky, Troika's joint CEO and Bloodlines' project leader, recently visited the GameSpot offices to give us a progress report on the game, and we have much to report.