A lot of fans consume media to escape into another world, from immersive storytelling to magical worlds that are ripe with wonder and adventure. Video games in particular are excellent escapism, ...

What makes an RPG bad? It’ll somewhat depend on who you ask, but unfriendly mechanics, poorly designed grind, and an uninspiring story are some of the biggest offenses. And the 7 games on this list ...

Matthew Mendisana is a journalist and writer with a passion for storytelling and a love for games and movies. That love carried him through college, while not letting his Autistic Spectrum hold him ...

The role-playing game genre is one of video game history’s oldest and most prolific, going back to the early 1970s, long before people had computers in their homes. RPGs were a natural evolution of ...

Steam users who have a thing for retro-style RPGs are in luck, as one developer is giving away its newly released roleplaying ...

Christoffer Bodegård, the solo developer behind my pick for 2026’s RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb, is obsessed with ...

In 1975, a text-based dungeon crawler changed gaming forever by bringing a tabletop role-playing game to a computer system. The decade that followed only further innovated within the genre. This list ...

Game Freak's upcoming RPG could prove it is capable of more while putting even greater pressure on Pokemon's recent struggles ...

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 ...

Super Mario RPG is one of the wildest games in Nintendo’s catalog. Loaded with eccentric characters like a Santa-esque big bad, random bouts of dark comedy–Toad cosplayers tickle as a form of torture ...

Ahmad is a video game fanatic. He always carries his PSVita with him wherever he goes so he can play Metal Gear Solid on the go, and his socials are filled with gaming news. He also lifts weights ...

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.