RPGs offer more than combat: magic is now used for exploration, diplomacy, and storytelling. Games like Dread Delusion and Arx Fatalis show how spells can help avoid combat creatively. Baldur's Gate 3 ...

Ever play a game almost too good, in any aspect, and think there is a high bar to pass after? Donkey Kong Bananza, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hallow Knight: Silksong are just a few recent ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

There are 21 Oblivion Remastered skills divided into three distinct categories: Combat, Magic, and Stealth. Skills start at level 5 and cap at 100, but Oblivion's hero has an allowance of seven major ...

Crimson Desert's combat system combines fighting game influences with swords, magic, and battle robots. How does that strange mix come together? We spoke to developer Pearl Abyss to find out.

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...