Tag Archives: Role Playing

Skyrim isn’t a month old yet, but the modding community is already coming out in force for it. We’ve already seen the very helpful 3D map viewer (opens in new tab), but this new one seems even more charitable. There’s a certain PC mod that promises to lower the system …

Back the day when we were thankful to play whatever Japanese RPGs we were given, we looked wistfully at all the huge titles that never came to the US, including Final Fantasy V. English-speaking players couldn’t officially familiarize themselves with the game until it was released on the PlayStation, but …

Tales Studio, the independent developer responsible for the Tales series of RPGs since 1995’s Tales of Phantasia, has been closed (opens in new tab) by parent company Namco Bandai. But Tales fans can take comfort in the fact that upcoming titles in the series haven’t been cancelled – however, with …

Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …

“I’d definitely like to see this set a record for what went on,” said Blizzard North co-founder Erich Schaefer, who hopes the book will motivate readers to make their loot table dreams a reality. Max Schaefer shares his brother’s sentiments, but emphasizes that the extraordinary Diablo franchise was created by …

Today brings exciting news from BlizzCon 2011 for Diablo fans as Blizzard Entertainment has announced the World of Warcraft Annual Pass; a 12-month subscription that comes with a slew of bonuses, including access to the beta test for Mists of Pandaria. But access to pre-release content is just the tip …

Clocking in at over seven minutes long, the latest trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2 wastes no time revealing quite a few new story details. It begins with Lightning being dragged into a chasm by a dark force into an alternate dimension, finally showing the event that led to her erasure …

World of Warcraft’s virtual auction house may be the place to be to buy your next sword, but Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is now giving you the option to own a piece of history–a retired HP server blade. This morning, the World of Warcraft developer announced a series of charity auctions …

Square Enix’s ambitious Final Fantasy XIV Online has been troubled by delays, poor reviews, fan ire, performance issues and subscriber woes since its inception. Even a dramatic reshuffling of the game’s management team and the introduction of free trials back in December has done little to rejuvenate its tentpole MMO. …

It’s been a very, very long wait for fans in North America to get their hands on Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2: Innocent Sin. Only the second half of the story, Eternal Punishment, ever made it to our shores. And while Eternal Punishment could be played without knowing the first …