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• The Banner Saga: Factions earning "a lunch every other week"

  Early Kickstarter success The Banner Saga isn’t making much moolah for developer Stoic Games – yet.

• The Banner Saga: Factions out now

  The Banner Saga: Factions is out now on Steam. It’s a free-to-play, multiplayer spin-off to story-driven single-player RPG The Banner Saga, the product of a couple of former BioWare staffers at Stoic Games expected later this year. The turn-based strategy affair is getting hammered by launch interest, so be patient while you wait your turn.

• The Banner Saga's story will be determined via conversation and travel decisions

  Stoic Studio has updated its Kickstarter page for The Banner Saga with a lengthy entry regarding how combat, conversation and travel will tie together the branching storylines in the single-player portion.

• The Banner Saga: Factions now in beta

  The Banner Saga: factions is now in beta, and you can get on board the turn-based strategy RPG. Find out how and check out five minutes of gameplay footage through the break.

• The Banner Saga happy to "ruffle feathers" the way AAA can't

  The ex-BioWare staffers at Stoic Games are enjoying the freedom to experiment with the kind of consequential gameplay mechanics traditionally published triple-A games can’t risk.

• The Banner Saga panel video discusses beta, Factions, development process

  The Banner Saga has a new panel video available which discusses the upcoming beta, the motion capture process with some of the Kickstarter backers, a work-in-progress score by Austin Wintory, and the combat system.

• Banner Saga Factions to release in early November on PC and Mac

  Banner Saga Factions, the free-to-play multiplayer game by Stoic Studio, will arrive on PC and Mac in early November, the developers have announced.

• The Banner Saga dev blog shows first combat field

  Until now we’d mostly seen character and landscape assets from the ex-BioWare team behind indie strategy RPG The Banner Saga. Behold: an in-game screenshot.

• Kickstarter for The Banner Saga ends with $723,886 pledged

  Stoic Studio’s round of Kickstarter funding for The Banner Saga has ended with $723,886 pledged by 20,042 backers.

• The Banner Saga fully funded in under 48 hours

  The ex-BioWare staffers behind The Banner Saga have been given a vote of approval by the Internet massive, scoring over $100,000 in crowd funding.

• The Banner Saga is "DOTA for the turn-based crowd"

  The ex-SWTOR developers at Stoic Games have a quite unusual take on strategy gameplay lined up for first effort The Banner Saga.

• "Why wouldn't you" go indie, ex-BioWare dev asks

  After working at one of the most respected and successful developers in the world, the three ex-BioWare staffers at Stoic Games are happy to be independent.

• Ex-SWTOR developers reveal The Banner Saga

  What do you do after making one of the biggest games of the year? You make the game you want to play: The Banner Saga.