While Dungeons & Dragons is the most recognised tabletop role-playing game, there are other RPGs which share the tabletop spotlight. One of those is Shadowrun, an RPG about doing undercover corporate work in futuristic cities filled to the brim with both common criminals and the supernatural. Yes, Shadowrun blends a…
Read MoreLast year’s mobile-exclusive RPG Adventure Bar Story wasn’t the finest example of the genre, but it had a charm about it, in no small part because the game’s scenario was written by Shinichi Yoshiike – a minor legend in Japan’s game industry for his work on the Atelier series, amongst…
Read MoreIf I think carefully about what attracts me to the RPG genre and keeps me coming back for more, I can come up with a fairly definitive list of features. It’s a genre that has been my personal favourite since I discovered Dungeons & Dragons when I was about seven…
Read MoreWhen it rains, it pours. Just last week I was praising the release of one classic JRPG on the 3DS Virtual Console after ruing the lack of its peers on the service. Not one week later another classic Game Gear JRPG has hit the service. Defenders of Oasis might be…
Read MoreOne of the nicest surprises of the year so far for the PlayStation 3 has been the release of a creakily-old, but quite enjoyable western RPG, ArcaniA 4. Retitled ArcaniA: The Complete Tale – one assumes because it’s the first time a PlayStation console has had a game of the…
Read MoreI’ll start off by saying Expeditions: Conquistador isn’t a game for everyone. It’s a tactical role playing game that takes real dedication and patience and as a gamer who isn’t familiar with this sort of ground, it took hours to become comfortable with the complex variety and attention Conquistador demands.…
Read MoreAnd just like that that iPad has one of the greatest BioWare RPGs, and the greatest Star Wars game, ever developed. The port of Knights of the Old Republic to the iPad has lost nothing in translation. It has picked up no bugs along the way. This is the game…
Read MoreOur friends over at Pocket Tactics have a little story that should be of great interest to everyone who has an iPad. The classic Star Wars RPG, Knights of the Old Republic, is getting a port to the Apple platform. Generally regarded as one of the greatest Star Wars games…
Read MoreTime for one of those admissions that I probably shouldn’t make and then expect people to take me seriously afterwards; I prefer the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games to the real games. I know, I know. Mystery Dungeon games are repetitive and generally far more simple games than the real Pokemon…
Read MoreLabeling Dead Island Riptide as simply “more of the same” might sound incredibly dismissive, but that’s what it is, plain and simple. It’s a game that is lost between being a full blown sequel and an expansion pack, with enough content to rival that of the first Dead Island, without…
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