Mykel has enjoyed video games for as long as she can remember. She would spend hours discussing, debating, and arguing about them with her older brother. Growing up, she read dozens of guides, lists, ...

RPG fans circle early. The games on the horizon are not just bigger in scale but more focused on identity, immersion, and ...

A great JRPG provides a nice balanced roster. A cool character here, an edgy character there, maybe a dashing rogue, a hopeless romantic, and a hot-headed grappler to round out the crew. There are a ...

Some of the best RPGs ever made feature characters the player creates from scratch, rather than a set one designed by the ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

Anyone who knows me knows I take character creation in RPGs very, very seriously. I'm not talking about optimizing builds or picking the perfect perks, I'm talking about creating my player-character's ...

[Note: All footage is from a work-in-progress alpha build.] Having finally seen The Outer Worlds 2 for myself, it’s clear that leaning into deeper RPG elements was one of the priorities for developer ...

After debuting with the eccentric and inimitable Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, developer Summerfall Studios finds itself in more familiar territory with Malys, billed on Steam as an unholy ...

The Outer Worlds 2 is an RPG that's more than willing to let you create some bad character builds. Game director Brandon Adler believes that's a critical part of the role-playing game experience ...