NetEase has recently revealed its own open-world RPG titled "Project Mugen," At first sight, it would look like one of the many popular free-to-play games coming out of China like Genshin Impact,…
November 8, 2023 | 08:00 EST
After over a decade, Capcom is finally bringing back Dragon's Dogma with its sequel, Dragon's Dogma 2. At Tokyo Game Show, not only did I get the chance to play the game extensively (and you can…
October 18, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
While HoYoverse has been extremely successful lately with Honkai: Star Rail and Genshin Impact, the developer has another card to play: Zenless Zone Zero. The game was revealed last year, and it…
September 12, 2023 | 02:16 EDT
Open-world survival crafting games aren’t exactly uncommon in 2023, making it harder for newer releases to get noticed. Enshrouded is yet another entry in this crowded genre, aiming to carve out its…
July 21, 2023 | 11:27 EDT
The world of Sanctuary, home to the Diablo series, is vast and full of rich lore. With Diablo IV, we have a huge chunk of the Eastern continent to explore, which is divided into five separate regions…
May 30, 2023 | 12:30 EDT
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If you've played the Diablo IV beta, chances are you got to try out multiple classes and their different builds. And it's almost certain that some classes felt more powerful than others. While that…
April 25, 2023 | 01:00 EDT
The developers at Blizzard are working some devilry behind the scenes, hellbent on keeping you captivated for hours on end. What better way to fuel your desire to play Diablo IV than through loot,…
April 12, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
Final Fantasy is one of the longest-running and beloved franchises in gaming, with a rich history of iconic characters, imaginative worlds, and – perhaps most importantly – legendary music. So it’s…
March 27, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
Forspoken, releasing January 2023, is Square Enix’s next greatly anticipated RPG. Featuring an open world, magic parkour mechanics, and a bleakly corrupted high-fantasy setting, it’s already shaping…
December 12, 2022 | 09:05 EST
The surprise announcement of Kingdom Hearts 4 has everyone already speculating what will be next for the series. The popular RPG has for a long time been a fantastic mishmash of Square and Disney…
April 13, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
So, Elden Ring is coming out, and as such you know everyone’s playing their old Soulsborne games. But what if you’ve Souls’d too much? To where Soulsing loses its soul? Well, my good friends, let me…
February 23, 2022 | 10:30 EST
Elden Ring isn't a far cry from what From Software fans are used to when it comes to the Soulsborne genre. Naturally, this is what fans expect, as these games have unambiguous DNA. Is a Soulsborne…
November 15, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Tales of Arise is a bold vision of the future for the franchise, but there’s a lot of history tied to the game’s design. While Tales of Arise, of course, has plenty of elements from the rest of the…
October 1, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
Love it or loathe it (and there are plenty who do), Dark Souls is undeniably one of the most influential games of the last decade. Whether it's the "git gud" meme, the "X is the Dark Souls of Y"…
September 22, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
It’s hard to describe to those that don’t play the games, but there is a sense of gratification to overcoming the challenge in Dark Souls. This is something that developers have noticed in the years…
June 19, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Darkness, edgy one-liners, men's fashion, and Chaos. It's hard to have watched that first trailer for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin when it was debuted a few days ago. The meme engine…
June 15, 2021 | 01:22 EDT
We knew from pre-launch developer blog posts and interviews that the first Mass Effect underwent several gameplay changes in the Legendary Edition ranging from gunplay to XP and morality balancing to…
May 19, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Xbox Game Pass has a daunting, albeit attractive, lineup of games that would appeal to any RPG connoisseur big or small. From the mighty lands of Skyrim to the vibrant worlds of Disney, there's a lot…
May 10, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
It's finally happening, Knights of the Old Republic is finally getting an official remake. The team behind the game's various ports to modern PCs and various mobile platforms has been confirmed to be…
April 26, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Out of all the IPs that industry veteran Capcom boasts, Monster Hunter is still relatively new to its success in the West. Now one of the company’s top best-sellers, second to only Resident Evil, the…
April 2, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Persona 5 Strikers is nearly upon us here in the west and with reviews singing the praises of its gameplay and story, there's bound to be a number of people curious about whether this makes a good…
February 19, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Musou video games, or Warriors titles as they're known in the west, are the child of Omega Force, a Japanese development company first founded in 1996. What started with the Dynasty Warriors series,…
February 17, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Update: Nioh 2's day-one update did fix the issue with 120 fps not working properly, but it's kind of a half measure. You can select the option and get 120 fps, but only sometimes. The game is very…
February 4, 2021 | 06:00 EST
2020, despite all its heart-wrenching challenges, has been a fantastic year for original soundtracks in video games. Doom Eternal’s music personifies brutality, while Ghost of Tsushima’s soundtrack…
November 27, 2020 | 12:00 EST
Diablo 4 is coming. We don't know exactly when to expect it, and many of its details remain mysterious. However, we've seen a few elements, from skill trees to runes to the return of the druid and…
June 29, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
Modifying games has a deep-seated core in the gaming scene, especially in circumstances where the game's popularity warrants mods yet it doesn't natively support them. The engine of the game itself…
February 3, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Recently there was a little game called Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 announced. A sequel to a cult classic video game, and perhaps more importantly based on a famous tabletop game, Vampire…
October 26, 2019 | 09:15 EDT
Borderlands 3 boasts having more than a billion guns for players to come across, and at times, it feels like that undersells the variety. The “best” guns are a mostly subjective decision, and your “…
September 30, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
Children of Morta has been out for a few days now, and a whole bunch of people have already got into this excellent game developed by Dead Mage and published by 11-Bit Studios. Players…
September 7, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Since the wait for Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord seems to be taking until the heat death of the universe, it is up to us to find our own Mount and Blade fixes. But, what about when the base game is…
July 8, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
It's been ten years since the release of Demon's Souls, the underrated first installment in the long-running Souls series by FromSoftware. Hidetaka Miyazaki's unsung masterpiece contains many…
March 4, 2019 | 01:00 EST
For many gamers, the Souls series needs no introduction. Since the release of Dark Souls for Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2011 (a PC release would follow in 2012), the series has garnered an intense cult…
February 5, 2019 | 02:00 EST
It’s almost here!! In two days (more or less) the 14 years of waiting will be over! Going into Kingdom Hearts 3, we all have some questions. Who are the 7 Lights? Why does Maleficent keep working…
January 27, 2019 | 04:01 EST
Most anticipated release for 2019? Easily Kingdom Hearts III. It’s the game we fans have been waiting over a decade for, sated by intermittent releases of spin-off games that are somehow unrelated…
December 2, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Alexander Pope once said that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Nowhere is this truer than the world of From Software's 2015 masterpiece Bloodborne. In the city of Yharnam,…
August 27, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Star Wars has always been a marquee property in media. The popularity of the movies to the widespread love for the formerly-extended universe have not waned for over forty years. Like any multi-media…
July 17, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
At the end of Bethesda’s E3 conference, Todd Howard announced that The Elder Scrolls VI is officially in development. The long-awaited title is probably a good few years off, so it's the perfect time…
June 13, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Probably one of the most talked-about elements of From Software's flawed masterpiece Dark Souls is its boss encounters. The game is an intentional throwback to retro-style gaming, so bosses are…
May 28, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
It is established that many RPGs today tend to follow a system of “choice” that can lead to a more definitive role-playing experience. Whether we see the likes of Dragon Age to Dragon Warrior, often…
January 8, 2018 | 09:00 EST
When I say Diablo 3 what comes to mind? The answer to that question depends on what you've heard throughout the years or experienced, from infamous events like the always-online DRM (remember when we…
May 23, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
With the release of NieR: Automata, many players are about to enter the bizarro world of NieR, a 2010 action-RPG from the crazy minds of Yoko Taro and Yosuke Saito, for the first time. Although …
March 6, 2017 | 01:00 EST
Unfortunately, our time was short in the presentation of ELEX due to scheduling issues, but from what I saw in only the 5-10 minutes certainly had me interested. Coming from the developers of the…
June 18, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
While playing Dark Souls III for my Dark Souls III review, I've been reflecting on the series at large. I've spent hundreds of hours of my life with the Souls games, and I've visited quite a few…
April 21, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Through four games (five, if you count Bloodborne) in the Souls series, a few things have stayed consistent with Hidetaka Miyazaki's difficult action RPGs. From Demon's Souls to Dark Souls III, there…
April 14, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
I don't like Fallout 3 all that much. It's ugly, it's unwieldy, and the roleplaying is skin-deep at best. It's not the worst game in the world, but it certainly is far from one of the best. I just…
April 7, 2016 | 11:00 EDT