One of the things that has fascinated me about Moon and Undertale and Stray Children is it feels like they're part of a larger tradition of weird, oddball games that are all inspired by one another ...

2025 was an outstanding year for role-playing games, and 2026 is shaping up to be just as exciting for fans of this beloved ...

The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Board games and card games make great gifts because they can provide lots of fun for years to come, and ...

The golden age of RPGs continues. From Baldur’s Gate 3 to Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring to Final Fantasy VII Remake, the 2020s have brought us some of the greatest role-playing games of all time. If ...

The computer role-playing game, most widely known as the RPG, turns 50 today! Well, as close as we can pin it, anyway. Happy birthday, RPGs! In 1974, the year Dungeons & Dragons began publication, a ...

The next Avengers movies, Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars are currently scheduled to arrive in 2026 and 2027, respectively. There’s some good news for fans of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes ...

Action-role-playing games (ARPGs) are a subgenre of role-playing video games that emphasize real-time combat, where the player has direct control over the characters as opposed to turn or menu-based ...

Max has been an enthusiast of computers ever since first laying hands on his family's home PC over 20 years ago, playing and even creating custom mods for his favourite games, such as Counter-Strike, ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

If I told you that one game beat Dungeons & Dragons so soundly that it made it almost irrelevant in an entire country, and also invented the phenomenon of "actual play" sessions that made Critical ...