Games

InXile Studios may be hard at work on Wasteland 2 , the crowd-funded sequel to the seminal 1988 computer RPG Wasteland , but they have already announced their next project . With most of the writing and concept art completed for Wasteland 2 , those teams have started work on a game that may be called Numenera: Torment . This game will be a spiritual sequel to the classic 1999 RPG Planescape: Torment , widely-regarded as the finest (and most literate) computer roleplaying game ever made. The new game will not involve any of the characters or situations from Planescape: Torment (which is copyrighted by Atari and Wizards of the Coast), but will share a similar focus on characterisation and philosophical matters, such as the nature of life, death and consciousness. The setting will be Numenera , a new roleplaying setting created by Monte Cook. Cook is a highly respected RPG game designer and worked extensively on the original Planescape setting for the Dungeons and Dragons game in the 1...