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, ...

An upcoming brand-new action RPG on Steam combines the gameplay of Elder Scrolls with the worldbuilding of Elden Ring, if on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is Crimson Desert an RPG? Does it even matter? What is an RPG anyway? Those are questions sparked by the hotly anticipated “open-world action-adventure” game as it nears release, and it’s fair to say ...

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

Usama Mehmood is a Senior Writer at DualShockers with more than five years of experience in the video game industry. He has been writing professionally since 2021 and covering games since 2022, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.