Although many new games were announced at this year's E3, the traditional RPGs that the Codex is most interested in haven't had much of a presence. One of the few exceptions to that is inXile's upcoming The Bard's Tale IV, which made an appearance both on the Shacknews "Indie Heaven" stream on Tuesday and on today's Twitch E3 broadcast. Presenting the game was a very enthusiastic David Rogers, also joined by Brian Fargo in today's broadcast. They appear to have brought a new gameplay reel with them, which offers a glimpse at areas which aren't part of the currently available backer alpha, as well as at the game's character creation UI. Both streams are about ten minutes long. Watch here:


Other than the footage, there's not much new information here, but it is worth noting than in both presentations, David only says the game is due out "this year", without specifying the Q3 release window that was announced back in February. Hmmm.