My commute is 47 minutes each way. I know this because I timed it obsessively during the first week at my current job, trying to figure out exactly how much Final Fantasy VII I could play on the train ...

For years now, GOTY winners tend to be RPGs. It’s a genre that encapsulates games as an art form almost perfectly, allowing each and every part of video games as an interactive medium to truly shine ...

The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

Defining a role-playing game in 2025 is more complicated than it’s ever been. Pretty much every game has RPG elements these days, so if you squint hard enough, you can make the case for a lot of games ...