Role Playing Games

On this day 25 years ago, the Sony PlayStation released in Japan. A lot of us here at Kotaku have pretty fond…

When I was in my impressionable pre-teen years, I spent vast amounts of my summer tucked away in a musty little…

When I first played the demo for Oninaki, an action role-playing game out tomorrow from Lost Sphear and I Am Setsuna…

Role-playing games are one of my favorite genres. They’re also the genre I came latest to. I didn’t play video games…

Role-playing games can take many shapes and forms beyond the dice-rolling of Dungeons and Dragons. One game designer…

Every party member in Octopath Traveler has a special ability that allows them to interact with NPCs throughout the…

If the industrial, supernatural world of Blades in the Dark was the backdrop for anything other than a tabletop…

Rare are the opportunities for Dungeons & Dragons fans to geek out about their favorite character. It’s like…

There’s now a d120 out there, made by the folks over at The Dice Lab, and while it’d be interesting to see what it…

Last night, while wandering in Fallout 4, I heard something strange in the distance. A man on a megaphone was…

Is there anything more paralyzing than a blank slate?

Brenda Brathwaite made Wizardry, among other classic role-playing games. Tom Hall made Anachronox. They and their…

Many role-playing games ask us if we want to save the world. Even the parody role-playing game Half Minute Hero,…

In today's mostly complete episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Dodgerwd wonders if everyone is having the same…

One brilliant thing about video games is that they can react to what players do and have multiple endings. Books…

Ladies and gentlemen of Kotaku, children of all ages. I will now attempt to explain to you the battle system in Sega…