The term "role-playing game" has become somewhat nebulous and unhelpful these days when it comes to categorizing video game...

I was looking at a few games on my shelf recently and decided to grab a few and take a closer look at them. Upon closer inspection, I real...

The joint release of Horizon Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild -- two of the biggest and most ambitious open-world g...

Like everyone else, I have fond, nostalgic memories of playing Morrowind back in the early 2000s, but I was never able to get into it p...

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I don't consider myself a "hardcore" gamer -- I'm not the type of person who has to play every game on t...

The Witcher is one of my all-time favorite RPGs. When I played it in 2007, I was immediately engrossed by its incredibly c...

Back in the 90s, Rareware was a juggernaut among game developers, rivaling and perhaps even surpassing the great and almigh...

When it was announced that Hidetaka Miyazaki -- director of both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls -- would be stepping dow...

With 2012 now a distant memory, it's time to reflect on the year's greatest achievements and rank them in order of ...

A few days ago, Gearbox released a hefty patch for the PC version of Borderlands 2 . Among the various bug fixes, they sli...

Day Z is the sort of game that's really fun and interesting for a while, but then quickly loses its appeal. I played co...

When I played Skyrim , it was obvious to me that it was a pretty shallow, mediocre RPG with a lot of problems. I had a w...

A common complaint with video games is that they're sometimes too short, or just generally lacking in conte...

It's no secret that I'm an ardent PC gamer -- they're measurably superior to consoles in most regards -- but I don...

I don't understand the appeal of buying new releases as they come out. I guess there's something appealing about bein...

The recent release of Risen 2: Dark Waters was met with mixed reviews from fans and critics alike. I never expected Risen 2 to...

When Demon's Souls was first released in October 2009, everyone was quick to propogate the hype that it was a brut...

One of my greatest joys in gaming is the feeling of discovery one gets from exploring a finely-crafted world. When a world ...

I've been seeing Resident Evil 6 advertisements lately, and knowing very little about it besides what's been mentio...