The D20 Beat: King’s Bounty II, fresh starts, and goodbye
From 2008 to 2014 (and beyond), King’s Bounty was one of my favorite, most-played series. These are strategy-RPGs in which you build your armies...
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous launches September 2 on PC
It looks like The D20 Beat will be taking its +3 glaive of demon slaying off the mantel this fall. Pathfinder: Wrath of the...
Solasta: Crown of the Magister review — Tactical success
One of my favorite encounters in Solasta: Crown of the Magister takes place early on in the first act. You’re in an underground ruin,...
The D20 Beat: Lost Eidolons is a rarity — a single-player RPG from South Korea
The South Korean game industry is known for games like Dungeon and Fighter, Lineage, and Maple Story. What do all of these games have...
The D20 Beat: My critical hits of 2020
The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite role-playing games of the past decade. The Witcher 2 is also a fantastic RPG. So far,...
Outward’s freedom and challenge helped the RPG sell over 1 million copies
Outward is not a mainstream role-playing game. Its world embraces brutal difficulty, to the point in which just carrying a basic set of armor,...
The D20 Beat: Designing Burn Bryte as a digital-first tabletop RPG
Video games have been one of the bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Humans are social animals, and the shelter-in-place and quarantine orders continue...
Maneater: How a shark becomes the star of a role-playing game
Sharks both fascinate and frighten me. I’ve loved learning about sharks, their evolution, and their place in the world for as long as I...
Facebook’s role-playing game teaches AI to complete tasks by reading descriptions
Demonstrating once again the potential of video games to advance AI and machine learning research, Facebook researchers propose a game-like language challenge — Read...
GameRefinery: Revenues and competition are heating up in mobile RPGs
GameRefinery has released a snapshot report of the mobile role-playing game (RPG) genre for the first quarter of 2020. And the evaluation of 200...