Take a dash of Suikoden’s world-building, add some Grandia-style combat, stir it all in with the setting and social links of Persona, and bam, you’ve got Trails of Cold Steel, which comes out for PS3 and Vita today.

There have been many JRPGs released over the past five years, and many of them are great. Only one can be safely labeled the best.

One day in March of last year, video game writer Andrew Dice wrote out a check for all of his company’s money. He stuck it in the doorframe at his business partner’s apartment in Portland, Oregon, then went back to his own place. (They live in the same complex.) He closed all the windows. Then, as he tells it, he laid…

Games can often offer social commentary on things from politics to opinion to simple observation on the state of the world. Sometimes they’ll even go meta, using a video game to talk about video games. Falcom’s latest action RPG, Tokyo Xanadu does just that.

Ys and The Legend of the Heroes developer Falcom is opening a new smartphone and tablets studio.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, one of the PSP's best RPGs, is getting an HD re-release on PS3 in Japan.