Last year, one of Path of Exile's three-month-long leagues was titled Harvest, allowing players to grow gardens of seeds to spawn monsters and ultimately use "deterministic crafting" on their items. This meant that if players had some sweet...

You know that Jack Nicholson nodding gif? That's how I feel whenever I hear the phrase Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. I mean, I love playing PSO 2 on the Xbox One. I've been waiting for it for years! But there's something special...

Devolver Digital and Four Quarters have quite the roguelike strategy hit on their hands with Loop Hero, a game that's hard to fully "get" until you've looked at the clock and realized you just lost several hours in an instant. Plenty &ndash...

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot launched at the beginning of 2020, and it's been steadily getting a few major updates here and there. It even got a new card game mode! But now things are winding down a bit with what is seemingly the last DLC, which ...

Just recently the Fallout 76 playerbase was collectively amped up to try out some upcoming new changes in the public test server (PTS), but Bethesda put a little damper on that with an update this week. Here's the full rundown: "We kno...

NIS America has announced that the localization of RPG sequel Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny will launch in North America and Europe on Nintendo Switch June 29. The announcement was made during today's edition of the New Game Plus Expo (NGP...

So Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade instantly shot up on my 2021 radar. Yeah, some parts of it are a bummer, like the PS5-specific requirement. And not everyone has one of those! Seeing as they're basically unicorn pieces of hardwar...

It's rare for me to want to play a game just to appreciate its environmental artwork, doubly so when it's stranded on a less-than-ideal platform like Apple Arcade. But that's where I'm at with Fantasian, a new RPG from Mistwalker (Terra Bat...

Right around when Zelda: Skyward Sword came out so many years ago, folks were trying to figure out ways that they could emulate it with traditional controls. I mean, I had that exact same thought. Given that motion was used for pretty ...

Early in March, Littlewood popped up on my radar, and it hasn't left. Originally released in August of 2020 on PC, the "peaceful and relaxing RPG" came at the perfect time, and many comparisons to Stardew Valley started to pop up since...

It's still the early days yet for PS5 development. Studios are still figuring things out, and as such, "full use the PS5," as it has become to be known, is not going to happen just yet for every single game. Square Enix has confirmed as muc...

To some, the Bravely Default franchise exists merely on the peripheral plane. "We want more old school JRPGs," fans cried out. "Here's a few," Square Enix answered. But the reach of projects in the aforementioned series, as well as one-offs...

It's a rainy Friday afternoon, it's somehow almost March, and the weekend feels just out of reach. I want to shut off my brain and zone out to the wonderful Final Fantasy VII Remake soundtrack without bouncing around YouTube – doubly ...

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into making Final Fantasy VII Remake from the ground up. A full team had to basically reimagine this classic JRPG without screwing things up, and that included new sound effects, visuals, music, designs...

The Pokémon Company wowed us with another Sinnoh-region announcement today beyond the Diamond and Pearl remakes: a brand new game coming in 2022. This one takes place in an "older" Sinnoh region where "Pokémon roamed as t...

Nintendo Switch fans who are craving something a little... out-there will want to set aside time next month for Gnosia, a "social deduction" sci-fi RPG with an unmistakable visual-novel style. After reports of a late February launch, Playis...

It's been a long and winding road for the future of the System Shock series, but at least in the case of Nightdive Studios' remake, the end is in sight. Along with news of a summer 2021 launch, the developer released its "final demo" for th...

Every so often, Game Freak does mystery gift giveaways for free creatures in Pokemon Sword and Shield. Okay, it's mostly just different types of Pikachus. Okay, it's basically all Pikachu, all the time. But at the very least you're get...

Anthem couldn't be saved after all, and the team working to revive it (under the Anthem Next banner) is moving on to help build out the far more lucrative next games in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series. After a report from Bloomberg ab...

The creator of the well-known Daughters of Ash mod for Dark Souls is back with an even bigger and bolder project, one that's being made with a group, and they've released an 18-minute gameplay preview. The project, Dark Souls: Nightfall, is...

If I'm going to play an older action-RPG, I want to do so on my Nintendo Switch, plain and simple. Thankfully, the Mana series got the message – Square Enix is bringing back Legend of Mana in 2021. The trailer serves as a vivid remin...

Amazon has a shaky track record for its home-grown games initiative, but maybe there's hope yet for New World.  Underline maybe. Not that surprisingly, the MMO's spring 2021 launch won't pan out – it's been delayed to August 31 t...

At long last, we have a date (March 18) for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions of Marvel's Avengers – but is it too little too late? Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics are surely hoping for a big boost after a rocky and slower...

Square Enix just can't help themselves when it comes to adapting Final Fantasy games into anime. It's kind of amazing actually, that there's extra stuff to uncover (particularly with the FFXV shorts, which were arguably more coherent than s...

Publisher 505 Games has proudly announced that it will be the publisher for Rabbit & Bear studio's high-fantasy adventure Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes when the title finally releases in 2022. 505 Games released a new video to annou...