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Unsighted Is The Best Metroidvania Of The Year
29.10.2021
Unsighted, the recent isometric Metroidvania from two trans Brazilian developers, Studio Pixel Punk, is the genre at its best. From its impeccable art, music, and atmosphere, to its open-ended “explore how and where you want” structure, deliciously anxiety-inducing time limit, and satisfying...
Obscure SNES RPG Lets You Take Photos Of Lovecraftian Horrors For Mad Cash
29.10.2021
Making money in role-playing games often boils down to killing monsters or selling off low-level equipment you no longer need. But the terrifying Laplace no Ma (roughly Laplace’s Demon in English) takes a more novel approach, allowing you to accrue a small fortune by taking glamour shots...
FFXIV’s Biggest Expansion Yet, Endwalker, Will Take Your Breath Away
13.10.2021
I recently had the opportunity to spend several hours exploring the new lands, jobs, and dungeons coming in Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion when it launches November 23. I flew through the wretched ruins of Garlemald, strolled the serene streets of the scholarly city of Old Sharlayan,...
D&D Fans Want Wizards Of The Coast To Use The Metric System
12.10.2021
Dungeons & Dragons has come a hell of a long way, except in one very precise area: units of measurement.Read more
D&D 5th Edition Is Deeply Flawed, So Why Not Play Something Better?
17.9.2021
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition is known for being two things above all else, depending on who you talk to: really approachable and easy to play, or a total mess that dilutes a lot of the distinctive factors of previous editions of D&D. Both things are true. It is also true that other games...
True Roguelikes Like This Are For Sick People, Drink From My Poison Chalice
10.9.2021
There are over 40 blood wolves around me, and they are absolutely kicking vampire ass. Those are wolves made of blood, in case you weren’t sure that’s what I meant. You’d think the vampires would be drinking that blood, but no, there are just too many blood wolves. They’re getting owned. I am...
Boyfriend Dungeon's Great Story Wouldn't Work Without Its Most Controversial Character
2.9.2021
Boyfriend Dungeon is an isometric action RPG mixed with a dating sim. Both of its halves are about rejection. Shocking, I know, that a dating sim would also happen to include a lot of rejection. The difference is that Boyfriend Dungeon makes navigating the complexities of rejection its A-plot...
Here's All The New Elden Ring News Worth Knowing
27.8.2021
It’s the third day of Gamescon 2021, and multiple outlets have gotten an in-depth preview of FromSoftware’s eagerly anticipated open-world RPG, Elden Ring. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most interesting bits of information coming out of today’s articles.Read more
How To Unlock All Six Hidden Weapon Aspects In Hades
25.8.2021
Hades, the Greek mythology-themed action-roguelike from Supergiant Games, ostensibly gives you six weapons to play with. Beyond that, each one has four “aspects,” or weapon-altering forms. But you’ll only have access to three for each at the start.Read more
Magic: The Gathering’s Latest D&D-Themed Set Has Me Hyped
1.7.2021
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, the newest set of Magic: The Gathering cards, wants you to roll for initiative. New in the set are a class of cards called dungeons that will let players go dungeoneering from the comfort of the card table.Read more
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance Is A Tragic Mess
23.6.2021
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance takes four of my favorite characters from R.A. Salvatore’s D&D novels and drops them into a co-op action game that is rough at best, completely broken at worst. I’ve not been this disappointed by a video game in a long time, and I played Balan...
Borderlands Spin-Off Wonderlands Stars Tiny Tina
10.6.2021
Gearbox officially unveiled a new Borderlands game during Summer Game Fest’s Kickoff Live! event today. It’s not a sequel, nor a prequel, nor a cutesy phrase that honestly just means “prequel.” It’s a proper spin-off called Tiny Tina’s: Wonderlands, starring Tiny Tina. It’s out early 2022. Specific...
D&D MMO Neverwinter Will Finally Let You Be A Bard
4.6.2021
Loremasters, minstrels, tale-tellers, songblades—every adventuring party needs a bard. If there isn’t someone on your side fighting kobolds with a lute, what’s the point? I don’t know how a Dungeons & Dragons MMO has survived since 2013 without them, but the question will soon be moot, as bards...
Frosthaven Is Rethinking Its Fantasy 'Races'
24.5.2021
Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven isn’t even out yet and it’s already tracking to be one of the biggest board games of the last decade, so it’s very cool seeing the way the game is going to taking a different approach to the way its “races” are depicted compared to more traditional fantasy...
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
7.5.2021
The weekend is for watching everyone else talk about Resident Evil Village while I have a damn good time playing a hack-and-slash action RPG from two decades ago. Read more
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance Returns To Consoles Tomorrow
6.5.2021
While fans of hack-and-slash RPGs await the June 22 release of the all-new Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, Interplay’s releasing the 2001 classic that started it all. Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance will be available for PlayStations, Xboxes, and Switch tomorrow, complete with support for...
Magic: Legends Open Beta Is Go
23.3.2021
Cryptic Studios’ free-to-play Magic: The Gathering-meets-Diablo action card-playing game has launched into open beta via Arc Games and the Epic Games Store, giving players all over the world the chance to play the game Kotaku’s Ash Parrish said several nice things about. Read more
Magic: Legends Makes Diablo-Style Combat Feel Like, Well, Magic
18.3.2021
In the past, every month or so my partner and I would follow the instructions on the box and “gather” with our friends to play Magic: The Gathering. We’d have a casual sealed draft of whatever the latest set was, and at the end of the (at times very long) night, the winner walked home with a couple...
A Realm Reborn's Ending Was Kind Of A Letdown
1.3.2021
I rolled credits on A Realm Reborn a couple of days ago, ushering in the new Seventh Astral Era, and yet I feel kinda hollow. Compared to my gut-wrenching experience toward the middle of my journey, the end of A Realm Reborn’s storyline feels like a huge-ass letdown. Read more
Destiny Now Has A Dungeons & Dragons Campaign
2.12.2020
Fans began trying to turn Destiny into a Dungeons & Dragons-style pen-and-paper RPG two years ago. This week they released the 1.0 version of the Dungeons & Destiny Player’s Guidebook, providing an entirely new way to experience Bungie’s loot shooter alongside the Dungeons & Dragons...