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RPGDot Weekly Roundup
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Greetings,
welcome to the
first RPGDot weekly newsletter. This is another free service from our site, and
we are truly overwhelmed by the number of subscriptions we received so far. We
will try to make the reading worthwhile, adding more than just a summary of the
news from the recent week. Much will depend on your feedback, of course. The
more we know about the things you like to read, the more we can deliver them. If
you have suggestions, please mail them to
us and we will take your ideas into consideration. We also ask you to
give us some time to make the best out of this newsletter. It will take some
issues before we have put together our regulars, and some things may change over
time. This is an ongoing experiment, but we certainly hope you will already
enjoy the first
issue.
Regards, Rendelius Editor-In-Chief RPGDot.com
Content:
Newsbit of the Week: Morrowind
Movies If you haven't
done so already, have a look at the Morrowind movies over at belgian site
Spelletjesgarnaal . They aren't
of high quality, but for the first time, you see what character generation will
look like in the game - and how a dungeon hunt will be.
Some word about
character generation: The amount of freedom you will find in this process is
simply amazing. Some people feared that Morrowind will be more of an action game
than a roleplaying game - but from what you see in these movies, there is no
reason to be fearful. Graphics do look stunning, and the world will be huge.
Morrowind is something to look forward for sure. US release date is still April
2002, the localized versions in Europe will be available in
June.
A
collection of other noteworthy newsbits:
Behind the scenes - News hunting Have you ever wondered how we hunt for
news? How do we collect 25+ newsbits a day - some of them unique and not seen
anywhere else?
Well, it takes a lot of time to get them onto the site. At
the moment, four people are scanning the net for notable newsbits every day.
Moriendor, Myrthos, Garrett and me. Each of us has a set of sites we visit -
ranging from game specific sites, developer sites to general gaming news sites.
Whenever we got time, we browse these sites for newsbits and add them to our
database.
The second source of news are amils we receive from other
sites, developers and publishers. They inform us about features they have on
their sites, send us material or press releases. We sort them out and put them
up as soon as possible.
And then there is you - the visitors. Most of you
browse other news sites as well, and if they find something we haven't put up
yet, the send us a short note about the feature.
All in all, I would say
that we spend about 6-8 man hours a day just hunting and editing news. The
result is the most complete RPG news coverage you can find. And since our
newsbits are categorized, we build a unique database of game inormation every
day. Right now, we have nearly 7000 newsbits in the database, and whenever you
want to know something about a certain game, you can be sure that RPGDot has the
best collection of links out there.
Next week, I will give you some
insight in how we organize the database and how you search it effectively. For
today, I just hope you enjoy our first newsletter.
RPGDot
latest features: We
have put up some interesting features at our site lately. These are exclusives
and can't be found anywhere else
Weekly
Game Highlight: All about Neverwinter Nights In every newsletter, we want to present
you the collected info about a game from our database. As you may know, all our
newsbits and articles go into a searchable database. Over the years, we have
collected info about 500+ CRPG's (categorization of newsbits started in Summer
2001). Today, we would like to present you our info collection for Neverwinter
Nights:
What's
up? - games to look forward to: This is the release list for March to
May - as you can see, great times ahead for RPG fans. Morrowind isn't listed
here, because the official release date for the US isn't set yet (rumors say it
will be April), but the european distributor has it listed for June 2002. So:
yes, for the US, you'll see Morrowind within the next 90 days...
Click on the games to learn more about
them
Well, that's all for the fist edition of our newsletter
- hope you enjoyed it. Once again, please mail us your likes and dislikes, so we
can improve that service. And if you found it useful, recommend it to your
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Happy gaming, see you at our site! Rendelius Editor In Chief
RPGDot
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