Even a JRPG's combat system needs to evolve alongside its characters if you want to go from rat hunting to god slaying.

The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

With the list of nominees for this year’s The Game Awards finally released comes the inevitable frustration and confusion about why one game has been honored or snubbed over another. Among these, the ...

A modern revival wouldn’t just preserve these games; it would enhance them. Quality-of-life features, improved resolution, orchestrated soundtracks, and widescreen formatting could breathe new life ...

The Nintendo DS deserves to live on. Despite the popularity of the original Switch and sweeping sales of the Switch 2, the original dual-screen handheld continues to be Nintendo’s best-selling device ...

Our annual Top 100 games list was published this week—a monumental undertaking that involved more than 30 writers and editors debating, discussing, pleading and even putting on presentations to sway ...

I first read The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson back in the mid-2010s, and ever since I have theorycrafted how I would play a Knight Radiant in my TTRPG campaigns. Conceptualizing how shardblades ...

Square Enix is known for some of the best RPGs in gaming, but few players know about a particular Nintendo DS game that stands out even among these. It was released exclusively for the Nintendo DS, ...

AYANEO is introducing the Pocket DS, a dual-screen Android-powered gaming handheld. Starting at just about $400, this represents a much more affordable solution to AYANEO’s Windows-based dual-screen ...

Bravely Default is the epitome of a “classic RPG,” and basically a Final Fantasy game in everything but name. You follow four heroes of light as they save the world from dark forces, utilizing a ...

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 ...

At PC Gamer we occasionally run tabletop RPG campaigns remotely, with senior editor Robin Valentine as our long-suffering GM. I like to think of my role as 'agent of chaos'—all scrapes and japes.