Tag Archives: Role Playing

It’s time to return to the Wasteland! Or, more precisely, it’s time to leave the Wasteland. In the new Fallout 4 DLC, a fresh case for Valentine’s Detective Agency sends you off to find a bright young woman who has disappeared from home. The mission takes you to an island …

As with the previous games in the series, Dark Souls 3 (opens in new tab) features a number of different endings depending on what actions you take during your playthrough. There are four of them in total and they’re increasingly more complicated to unlock, so check out the requirements below …

Left on the cutting room floor You’ve finally done it. You’ve written your 1200-page game bible, describing all 150 painstakingly detailed levels, 20 different boss fights, and an overarching plot that spans generations. Now comes the part where you actually, y’know, make it. You’ve got two years to do so, …

Well, this is definitely the strangest cross-promotion in video games I’ve seen in awhile: UK residents, head into a MEATliquor restaurant from April 4 to 29 and you’ll be able to partake in the Dark Souls Wing Challenge, which charges you with eating twenty extremely spicy chicken wings as fast …

In creating amiibo (opens in new tab), Nintendo hit the emphatic fan (emfantic?) jackpot, with Nintendo devotees going to sometimes extreme lengths (opens in new tab) to to get their twitchy, grabby hands on these plastic idols to their favorite classic characters. But in addition to looking great and being …

Playing protagonist musical chairs It’s a real feat for a game to actually surprise you. We’ve entered an age where every character reveal, every playable mode, multiplayer feature, or gameplay quirk is carefully calculated and announced at the most opportune moment to build hype to an absolute fever pitch. By …

Making progress is a lot like making moonshine: damned difficult to see exactly what’s going to happen while you’re actually doing it. Simply, it often takes hindsight to truly appreciate progress. When it comes to video game design, few single developments have been considered quite such major shifts as that …

Michel Ancel has some interesting ambitions for Wild on PS4. He want to create an open world game without anything as mundane as ‘an end goal’, ditching even obvious touch points like mission markers and maps. Instead he want to create a place for players to explore and find their …

Pikachus on parade Pikachu’s been around the block a few times. He’s been a cartoon character, a World Cup mascot, even – unofficially – a symbol for Hong Kong’s Occupy Central protests. But you might not know that Pikachu’s also, officially, a Halloween fan.This year Pokmon kicks off the 2015 …

If death at the bony claws of unknowable horrors isn’t enough for you, you might as well see how you do with a bunch of network problems and work-in-progress bugs in the mix. Applications for the PS4-exclusive Dark Souls 3 (opens in new tab) are open now. You have until …