The dawn of a new hardware generation is often accompanied by a few pangs of uncertainty. For fans of Japanese role-playing games, the future remains especially uncertain, with only Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts ...

Ironically, the same principles which stimulate adoration for Japanese role-playing games are also the reasons why the genre has a constituency of critics. Much like haiku, the beauty of the JRPG stems from the scope ...

Sure, January’s first few days were rather lackluster, but finally there’s a reason to rejoice. With new releases like Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition, Onimusha: Warlords, and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe arriving this ...

While all major platforms are receiving a number of new titles, it’s undoubtedly, Nintendo systems that are receiving the bulk of this week’s new game releases. Look past the obligatory eShop shovelware and there are ...

Although many might assume turn-based battles dominate the realm of role-playing, action-driven combat has a resilient foothold on the genre. Long before Mass Effect and Kingdom Hearts married plotline with sections of energetic pugnaciousness, franchises ...

Across the last two decades, the Japanese role-playing genre has undergone a number of significant shifts. Many of these changes of obvious- the capability of contemporary hardware now offers the ability to render richly detailed ...

From Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition’s assemblage of D3 with the Reaper of Souls expansion set to the ‘worlds on a disk’ of Tales of Xillia 2 and Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment, there’s easily ...

One of the distressing deficiencies of the E3 pressers was the complete lack of Japanese role-playing games. Fortunately, a visit to the Namco-Bandai meeting room helped to cure this shortcoming. After viewing Dragon Ball Xenoverse, ...

As the ever-growing convoy of action anthologies such as the Killzone, Ratchet & Clack, Sly Cooper, and Zone of the Enders collections have demonstrated, high-definition remasters appear to be profitable. Naturally, publishers have been expanding ...

This week, a number of classic gaming series return once more. Pikmin 3 repeals the franchise’s nine-year hiatus, while Tales of Xillia sees the long-running Namco franchise return for its thirteenth installment. Of course, once ...