What kind of gamer are you? Are you a PC gamer? A console gamer? Hardcore? Casual? Do you like shooters or strategy games? ...

Last week I mistakenly left everyone with the impression that I was unhappy with the way BioWare re-visits ideas and does a certain ...

Most RPGs end up jammed into one of two broad categories: 1) Open-ended sandbox games which are usually a little thin on story ...

Welcome to The Hard Problem, a new column where I’ll tackle a hard problem in game design and then solve it before your ...

The Pickford brothers were completely bewildered. What Rare had asked was unprecedented, strange and curious. They’d never heard anything like it. Who’d make ...

What do people get out of playing a sadistic character in a videogame? Some videogame protagonists are little more than amoral killers, and ...

I remember playing Planescape: Torment, the cult classic roleplaying game from Black Isle, a few years back. The game matches you with a ...

CRPGs aren’t RPGs. I’m a snob about this, always have been. To me, Knights of the Old Republic was a complex adventure game ...