Anyone who is familiar with Bethesda's open-world RPGs will tell you that although there is a nearly limitless amount of content available to you, only a fraction of that content can be considered…
September 26, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
Now that Starfield has been released into the hands of millions of adoring fans across the world, it seems that most people would agree that the game has more or less lived up to expectations. Yes,…
September 19, 2023 | 09:10 EDT
You’ve probably heard this before, but Final Fantasy XVI is a pretty dark game. Even with brightness settings maxed out, there’s a lot of gruesome violence, emotional gut punches, and moments that…
June 29, 2023 | 11:10 EDT
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The general attitude towards quick-time events (QTEs) is that they are superfluous and immersion breaking. While plenty of games have utilized the QTE in the past two decades or so of gaming, I find…
June 27, 2023 | 11:30 EDT
Anyone who has been keeping up with the happenings of the gaming industry for any substantial time will tell you that it's best to keep your expectations low. Even with this maxim in mind, the last…
June 14, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
This past year, LEGO released an impressively detailed Horizon Forbidden West LEGO set featuring a 13-inch Tallneck with smaller Aloy and Watcher LEGO figures. This set was a bit pricey at $79.99,…
December 27, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet released just a couple weeks ago, and though it sold over 10 million copies during its launch weekend (and became the fastest-selling Nintendo game of all time), fans have…
November 30, 2022 | 11:00 EST
The world of Pokemon Legends: Arceus is designed in a familiar fashion to games we've seen before, with a main hub area and the ability to travel to several other distinct locations. One location in…
March 17, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
If you've been playing the most recent release in the Pokemon saga (and have managed to ignore the near non-stop debates about graphical fidelity), it's likely you've been having an overall enjoyable…
February 12, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Nintendo and Game Freak aimed to revolutionize the Pokemon franchise with Pokemon Legends: Arceus. "Action meets RPG in a new kind of Pokemon adventure," the marketing promises. The game's release…
February 2, 2022 | 12:00 EST
To this day, there is still no definitive way to play Persona 3. Granted, you can still purchase digital downloads of Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable via the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita…
December 29, 2021 | 12:00 EST
We here at TechRaptor have put a lot of time into Red Hook Studio's dark fantasy RPG, Darkest Dungeon II. While it is still in Early Access on the Epic Games Store, this sequel makes a lot of…
November 16, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Those looking forward to the Horizon Forbidden West release date don’t have too much longer to wait for the Horizon Zero Dawn sequel, and Sony continues to fan the hype with the latest look at the…
September 7, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
With the announcement of Skyrim: Anniversary Edition slated to release this November, a sobering realization hit: There are way too many versions of this open-world RPG out there. In the 10 years it…
August 23, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
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After years of waiting and excitement, Biomutant finally hit store shelves last month to a rather lukewarm reception. The general consensus out there is that Biomutant is a massively ambitious game…
June 22, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
It is often accepted that the first Borderlands game was responsible for the popularization of the looter shooter genre. At the time, looter shooters seemed like the peanut butter-chocolate of gaming…
April 29, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Chances are if you enjoy looter shooters, you are curious about Outriders. If not, you really should be. People Can Fly's take on the formula manages to get a lot of things right with its gameplay…
April 8, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
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Content warning: This article contains mentions and descriptions of sexual assault and pedophilia. A few years back, I was on my usual annual Fallout: New Vegas playthrough. This time…
February 3, 2021 | 12:00 EST
This article contains spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077, and discussions of sexual assault, suicide, and self-harm. If all you knew about sex workers came from gaming what would you think about…
January 8, 2021 | 12:00 EST
As is the case with every major industry, the gaming industry is no stranger to controversies. It's almost depressing how there are so many credible allegations of discrimination and exploitation in…
December 28, 2020 | 12:00 EST
The Witcher 3 only released back in 2015, and for those that don’t remember, CD Projekt Red was surging in popularity, but they weren't necessarily a household name. In that short five years, CDPR…
December 16, 2020 | 12:00 EST
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With only a few weeks to go before the next generation of consoles are released to the public, game developers are almost certainly in a rush to meet deadlines. Under normal circumstances, releasing…
October 19, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
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For longtime fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, few things are as contentious as Ubisoft's decision to add RPG mechanics to the basic Assassin's Creed gameplay formula. No one is denying that…
July 21, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
I spent a solid 24 hours in my review of Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator. This game developed by Studio Namaapa and published by PQube is an interesting mix of visual novel, life simulator…
February 21, 2020 | 11:30 EST
The Witcher TV series is, by most accounts, a fairly decent adaptation of The Witcher books and games. It’s not a perfect show by any standard, of course, but it’s just good enough that fans of the…
January 13, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Pokemon Sword and Shield did a lot of interesting things overall—both in what it added and what it trimmed from the series—to the point of internet oversaturation. Whether it be moves cut, Pokemon…
December 2, 2019 | 11:00 EST
If you haven't been following developments with Pokemon Sword and Shield, you might have missed this whole "Dexit" thing. It's got fans in a bit of an uproar — understandably so, all things…
November 16, 2019 | 11:00 EST
The past month has been tough if you follow Pokémon at all. Despite a steady stream of trailers showing off new features for Pokémon Sword and Shield, much of the coverage of late has transformed…
July 16, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
In 1984, William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer was released. An underground hit that won multiple awards, the novel, which is about a washed-up computer hacker who must contend with an artificial…
June 27, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Recently released on consoles and PC, Outward is the debut role-playing game from Nine Dot Studio. It happily wears its inspirations on its sleeves as it features a blend of the classic PC RPGs of…
April 17, 2019 | 12:15 EDT
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is still very much in development. Fans have been eagerly anticipating the release of this open-world role-playing game from the moment it's been announced. The wait…
April 10, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
I finished The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild recently. Considering that I began playing it when it launched, you don’t have to tell me how slow I am with starting and finishing games. That’s…
October 28, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
The first time I played UNDERTALE I was blown away, not by the game's interesting and ever-changing game mechanics, combat situations, pacifism, or clever writing. What really stood out to me was…
September 23, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
After ascending a series of waterfalls, I’ve reached Ploymus Mountain’s plateau peak. I’m in a land caught in perpetual rainfall, and right now, I’m nervously weighing my options as I crouch in…
March 29, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
It's crazy to think that the last time Nintendo released a console The Legend of Zelda game it was 2011 with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. After The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was…
March 15, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
With Skyrim Special Edition on the horizon (tomorrow), our minds inevitably turn to mods. In fact, Nexusmods have already announced that they will be creating a dedicated new site separated from…
October 26, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
One of the biggest characteristics of video games that set it apart from every other form of entertainment and art is its propensity for high immersion. Immersion is something all entertainers yearn…
September 12, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
I attended a thirty minute presentation that was an expansion of what Taleworlds Entertainment showed off at this year's PC Gaming Show. So everything was all about siege. From what I saw, and from…
June 18, 2016 | 09:30 EDT
Fallout Shelter recently pushed a notification that new rooms would be coming in an update. I neglected to get a screenshot of the notification, but thankfully Redditor /u/Krade33 snapped one and…
February 29, 2016 | 01:58 EST
There is no question that World of Warcraft has been in some turbulent, up-and-down times recently, with subscribers in a definite gradual decline. I personally haven't played WoW on a regular basis…
February 24, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Before playing Toby Fox's RPG, it was easy to dismiss as a hype train come derailed in the same manner Five Nights At Freddy's as a series became overly hyped by its fanbase—that all fades once you…
December 26, 2015 | 09:00 EST
The buzz regarding The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is almost inescapable this year. The seamless blending of story-driven role-playing with an open world experience has been apparently achieved, with…
November 25, 2015 | 01:00 EST
It's been five years since Bethesda Softworks published Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas, and with over one thousand hours of in-game experience (so sayeth Steam), you could perhaps say I'm…
October 19, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
I want to confess something. A few years ago, all I did for gaming was play Facebook Cow Clickers for about a six-month period. I clicked on castles to make more soldiers. I clicked on turnips to…
October 15, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
World of Warcraft: Legion, the newest World of Warcraft expansion, was announced yesterday at Gamescom 2015. As a fan of the lore and occasional player of the game, I was incredibly excited, even…
August 7, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
When thinking about which games were the best of Gen 7, I have a short list that immediately comes to mind. Lost Odyssey made me cry. Red Dead Redemption let me live out my six-shooter outlaw…
July 24, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
When Blizzard announced last year that they wanted to release an expansion to World of Warcraft every year, I didn't really care because it never seemed to be a possibility. They've wanted to do this…
July 6, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
You don't need me to tell you The Witcher 3 is a great game. Andrew has already done that in his review, all the big sites have been doling out 10s and high 9s and its generated a lot of *ahem*…
June 11, 2015 | 09:00 EDT