The role-playing game genre is one of video game history’s oldest and most prolific, going back to the early 1970s, long before people had computers in their homes. RPGs were a natural evolution of ...

Over on Hardcore Gaming, there’s a new timeline up for reading called “A Brief History of Western Action RPGs”. Brief? Are you kidding me? Spanning over thirty years of role-playing games (mostly) ...

Long before linear, character-driven stories with party members on an adventure to save the world became standard, JRPGs were already taking shape as far back as the 1980s. Developers in Japan were ...