Tag Archives: Role Playing

In case you haven’t heard, the highlights from today’s Nintendo Direct include: a 3DS sequel to 1992’s The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past; a 3DS sequel to 1995’s Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island; and a port of 1995’s EarthBound (finally!) to the Wii U’s virtual console. …

Nerd fight! Video games and comic books are both embraced by the lovable geeks of the world, so it makes sense that the two mediums can’t seem to stay apart. This year continues the tradition with games like Injustice: Gods Among Us, Deadpool, and the newly-announced Batman: Arkham Origins. While …

By its very nature, Etrian Odyssey has always been something of an acquired taste. Dungeon crawlers are a notoriously demanding strain of RPGs, and Atlus’ series has done its best to live up to that reputation with its crushing difficulty. With Etrian Odyssey IV, however, the developer has decided to …

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch houses side quests for you to obtain several different rewards across your journey, and they’re known as Errands. You may need to aid a quarreling couple in need of a bit more love or satisfy a man’s burning desire to create signature …

Japan’s geeks enjoy impressive gaming merchandise like Final Fantasy-branded PS3s, $200 Bayonetta figurines, and Zone of the Enders iPhone cases. After decades of paying steep import prices to share in the fun, US fans have increasing access to merch of that caliber stateside, particularly with art books. These glossy collections …

At some point in Fire Emblem, you will have to make a difficult decision–life or death? Will you reset a mission to save a character, or will you count them a casualty of war? It’s a more pressing dilemma than you might think, especially after resetting a mission for the …

“We’ve been recapturing them as and when the local farmers phone us to tell us that there are crocodiles on their property. In Weipe there were a lot, and I also heard there was a crocodile on school’s rugby field in Musina.” — Rakwena Crocodile Farm worker Zane Langman, after …

If you’re a fan of Japanese animation or animated films in general, you’ve likely marveled at My Neighbor Totoro or dabbed at tears during Grave of the Fireflies at some point in your life. Storytelling just doesn’t get much better than the delightful Studio Ghibli films, starring wistful adolescents with …

The long winter of discontent is nearly over for PlayStation 3 Skyrim players. Today Bethesda announced all three DLC packs for the game will hit PlayStation Network in February, and will be priced half-off for their first week. Dragonborn will arrive first, followed by Hearthfire, and finally Dawnguard–the first major …

Diablo III players have been waiting for PvP ever since Blizzard dropped it from release, pleading for patience as the competitive modes just weren’t up to snuff yet. Soon fans will get to duel their fellow loot-ridden player characters, though the main event has gone back to the drawing board. …