Tag Archives: Role Playing

Read ’em and weep Video games are distilled magic. They’re able to transport us to far off places and let us play inside the worlds their creators have imagined for us. But before all of this newfangled technology took over, there was another way to escape into the realm of …

I am about to type a sentence so bizarre and seemingly facetious that I have checked no less than five times to make sure it is not a joke. It is not. Are you ready? Here goes: There is a Dark Souls-inspired endless runner game now available on iOS and …

Bravely Second is an incredibly hard game to talk about without sounding like a complete weirdo, and it gets even worse when you start throwing in some of the game’s terminology, such as Brave points and Abilinking. There’s certainly a significant knowledge barrier here, but persist and behind all of …

Dark Souls 3 (opens in new tab) will let you keep on dyin’ with at least two sizable DLC expansions, according to the Xbox Store (opens in new tab). Its listing for a Dark Souls 3 season pass says the pass will offer a discounted price on two packs, adding …

Bravely Second: End Layer, the sequel to Bravely Default with an even more brilliantly bizarre name, has come bearing gifts for western fans. Not only is the game set for North American release on April 15th, but it’s bringing a hefty collector’s edition along, and an equally weighty demo to …

The nicest thing about the winter gaming season lull is having time to revisit games I otherwise wouldn’t have time to dive back into. This year, it’s Final Fantasy 13. The last time I played it was at launch, back in 2010. I made it to chapter 11 – the …

Do you have room in your life for a never-ending battle between impossibly powerful beings that isn’t Smite, Elder Scrolls Online, Neverwinter or episodes of Ru Paul’s Drag Race? Then boy do we have the story for you. To celebrate its fifth(!) anniversary, superhero/villain MMO, DC Universe Online is finally …

Dark Souls 3 (opens in new tab) takes place during an apocalypse, but it’s not just the fictional world that’s coming to an end – DS3 director, father of the Souls series, and current From Software president Hidetaka Miyazaki told (opens in new tab) GameSpot that it also represents closure …

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. Sounds simple enough, and if you’re a fan of the show, you’ve probably rolled your eyes at characters who lost all manner of honor and body parts when they were too dumb to figure it out. But it …

The gaming prowess of Twitch, at least as an entity composed of hundreds of people typing frantically into a chat window, has been proven today (opens in new tab) with the defeat of gaming’s notoriously tough touchstone, Dark Souls. It took a dedicated cluster of chatters, each feeding granular commands …