Recent coverage highlights how anime's visual style, narrative depth, and character-driven arcs are increasingly shaping RPG design across video games and tabletop formats. While some anime-to-game ...

Noted CRPG enthusiast and Obsidian director Josh Sawyer, known for Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, and Pentiment, recently explored the concept of “crunchiness” in RPGs. During an interview ...

The indie action RPG The Awakener: Battle Tendency is built around a clear design philosophy that prioritizes combat, loot, ...

Traysia launches on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC, bringing a classic 1992 RPG back with modern features like rewind, save ...

There's a jump button in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Press it, and the game's custom-made protagonist, Rook, leaps upward. The same button lets Rook vault across waist-high barriers and clamber up ...

The throwback approach to RPG game design has been responsible for some of the best games to appear in recent years. A huge highlight in 2023 was Baldur's Gate 3, which resurrected a classic series ...

TL;DR: Chris Avellone has joined Republic Games to develop a new dark fantasy RPG focused on immersive storytelling, meaningful choices, and classic gameplay elements like combat and character ...

Tim Cain, a legendary co-creator of Fallout, recently shared his seasoned perspective on common RPG design flaws. He specifically stated that developers should avoid a few overused and universally ...

Square Enix is one of the most influential companies in video game history. When it comes to role-playing games, Square Enix is one of the leading pioneers and has been for quite some time, even ...