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It’s the time of the year traditionally that people don’t care about anything. Everything interesting has happened, and there hasn’t been long enough for people to get their act together and stop going to the gym.

The sheer amount of RPGs coming out in 2016, is staggering. Unlike with our MMOs of 2016 list, we won’t strive to list them all. Instead, we’re curating our Top 25 most anticipated RPGs of 2016. Here’s hoping they all launch this year!

IDC/Games has announced a publishing agreement with developer Light Vision Interactive to bring Affected Zone Tactics to the EU via direct download or Steam. AZT has been a big success in Russia.

Bigmoon Entertainment has released a new trailer to reveal a backstory for its forthcoming turn-based RPG Demons Age.

During this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Razer took home its sixth “Best of CES” award as well as “Best PC” for the Razer Blade Stealth and the “People’s Choice” award for the Ultrabook. The “Best of CES” is the sixth time in a row that Razer has been so honored.

A new short fiction story based on the Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition universe has been published on Dragonmag.com that foreshadows the upcoming Siege of Dragonspear expansion. While developer, Beamdog, is not ready to release all of the details we do know that the expansion will come complete with new zones, items, enemies, quests, 4 new characters and the shaman class. The expansion will reportedly be released later in 2016 for PC, Android and iOS.

Massively is reporting that Greed Monger’s original lead programmer, James Proctor, has revived the Greed Monger site and announced that the game is back in development. According to a post on the forums, systems are in development for PvE encounters and a ‘beta land rush’. The site itself is largely empty, though there are new forums for interested parties to check out.

Oculus made a splash by opening up pre-orders this week and unveiling their retail price at $599, substantially more than Palmer Luckey’s September “in the ballpark” of $350 quote. While many gamers are gleeful that virtual reality will soon be arriving in their very own living rooms, our RPG columnist is concerned. Is $600 just too much?

The MMO genre can sometimes feel like a whimsical sea of shifting sands, but it’s not without its axioms. Open betas will almost always mean soft launches, game development benchmarks will take longer than expected, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes will always be one of the best-conceived and poorly-executed MMORPGs ever made. Yet, sometimes the sands shift enough to reveal patterns for those who are good enough at predictions to get a glimpse of what awaits for MMOs, RPGS, and other games.

Nomad Games has posted a trailer to show off its just-announced Talisman: The Horus Heresy digital board game based on the Warhammer 40K universe. Up to four players can duke it out in a game reminiscent of many TCGs. See what you think!