Tag Archives: Role Playing

(opens in new tab) Update: And that’s it! Star Wars Galaxies is no more. But even if you missed the end-of-days you can check it all out below. Tonight, the curtain falls on Star Wars Galaxies, Sony Online Entertainment’s nearly nine-year-old MMORPG. To celebrate, we’ll be live streaming the last …

Today, we finally publish our sixth annual Platinum Chalice awards – but not just yet. Before we begin our celebration of all things great and amazing that gaming gave us in 2011, including our Game of the Year, we’ve got one final GOTY nominee to unveil. It’ll face some stiff …

GamesRadar’s Platinum Chalice awards begins this Friday, so to stoke anticipation for the occasion we’re revealing one of our five Game of the Year nominees each day this week. Be sure to check out the videos for the previous days’ nominees, Portal 2 (opens in new tab) and The Legend …

December may offer the true climax of the holiday season, but in terms of new game releases, it’s very much the calm after the storm. Most of the giant blockbusters of the season made their way out between September and November, but the final month of 2011 isn’t barren by …

Last week MapleStory, the huge free-to-play MMO, was hacked by online troublemakers, with the crime involving more than a third of the game’s South Korean user base. Since a staggering 18 million people play it in the country, roughly 13 million players accounts were compromised in the attack. But MapleStory …

Skyrim (despite its technical hiccups (opens in new tab)) has been lauded by gamers and critics as one of the year’s best. Certainly the game’s greatest honor was getting a 10/10 from us (opens in new tab), but also Elder Scrolls V has the rare feat of breaking new ground …

Hot on the heels of Square Enix releasing a new set of screenshots (opens in new tab) from Final Fantasy XIII-2, now news has slipped out that the company will be partnering with Ubisoft to outfit one of its RPG heroes with a DLC wardrobe plucked straight from the Assassin’s …

The Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft is slated to bring some interesting changes to the long-running fantasy MMO, and this week Blizzard released a Talent Calculator to prepare future Pandarens and Pandarian explorers alike for the new and (reportedly) improved Talent System. Now available for your tinkering …

You may have heard of the iOS versions of the adventure RPG, but now Planet Crashers is making its way to the Nintendo 3DS. Hopping from planet to planet, players must complete turn-based battle quests, eventually crossing the galaxy in order to stop an unknown evil. As a recently graduated …

Mass Effect 3 producer Jesse Houston has taken time out from finishing the highly anticipated title to answer some of fans’ questions about the game’s new features. Besides addressing how players’ progress in Mass Effects 1 and 2 will affect the ME3 experience, Houston tackles some of the most persistent …