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Roguelikes have been around for decades. We've all played one at one point or another (sometimes without realising it - Diablo, anyone? Or, better yet, ToeJam...

Have you ever wandered into a store in Skyrim or your other preferred RPG and just thought, "I do wonder how the store owner...

By Joshua Yeldham-Smith "War games, what are they good for?" …Learning Trigonometry! Monty Python once asked: “What have the Romans ever done for us?.” What has war...

By Leo Powell Following the Zeitgeist of the weird, not-quite-a-game-but-still-a-game logic that fuels the likes of Goat Simulator and The Path, I stumbled across a 4chan thread...

By Conor Bailey Star Wars games have always had a special place in the hearts of gamers. It's very, very hard not to name a...

Back in the '80s and early '90s you couldn’t move without coming across an arcade machine, they were everywhere. As well as in the...

“And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot” - Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe’s famously ominous...

Whilst I am a fan of many gaming genres, one could not capture my limited attention span. Minecraft gave birth to a new era of...

By Biagio Ruggiero Since the year 2000, Creative Assembly have been showing us history in its most brutal form. From the Roman to the French empires,...

Those crazy Japanese. Western culture can’t account for them. The Japanese are so bewildering that Sophia Coppola earned four Oscar nominations for a film...

Making video games is not an easy task. Many games these days can take years to make, cost millions of pounds and require a lot...

One of the biggest deals players are making about the huge Destiny 2.0 update (and the subsequent year 2 expansion, The Taken King, out now)...

I'm afraid I need to get something off my chest, something that's been slowly bubbling away in the back of my mind for years,...

By Josh Patterson It's actually a little hard to believe that Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, a sequel long whispered about among fans of the franchise but...

By Joshua Yeldham-Smith Wherever possible, I play games on Hard Mode. For me, this trend began with Veteran Mode on Call of Duty 2 for Xbox...

The Witch’s House is a PC horror game made in RPG Maker. I know these games aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but trust me...

Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, Neverwinter... The list of RPGs I've played and thoroughly enjoyed throughout my life goes on, but none will ever...

By Callum Humphreys Imagine a world as dark and disturbing as that in The Hunger Games trilogy. Now transfer that violent imagery to a Pokémon game....

For most people in the UK, the last weekend of August was a normal bank holiday, a time designed to make people feel better...

From Blue Mammoth Games, Brawlhalla is a 2D arena fighting game akin to the ever-popular Super Smash Bros.