Assassin's Creed Shadows DLC, Claws of Awaji, is a refreshingly focused experience that does everything the main game does – just much better

Claws of Awaji is the action role-playing game’s (RPGs) first major expansion since launch. Claws of Awaji is an essential ...
EarlyGame on MSN

The Surprising Spiritual Successor to Classic Paper Mario

For anyone not familiar with the Paper Mario series, it may be difficult to understand how a game series about everybody's ...
Hardcore Gamer

8 Games to Play if You Love Hollow Knight: Silksong

If there’s any title that takes what makes the Metroidvania genre so great—gameplay, story, soundtrack, and visuals—it’s Ori ...
Phys.org

Researchers create 2D nanomaterials with up to nine metals for extreme conditions

Two-dimensional nanomaterials only a few atoms thick are being explored for a range of critical applications in biomedicine, electronics, nanodevices, energy storage and other areas, especially to ...
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After modernizing the first three Dragon Quest games, remake producer says if the HD-2D games are "really well regarded," then "that would definitely create a movement within ...

JRPGs "A lot of RPGs have adopted more action gameplay elements," says Dragon Quest remake producer, making old-school turn-based JRPGs "actually rare nowadays" and "considered fresh again" Dragon ...
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Japanese no-code RPG engine Bakin makes developing HD-2D style games easy. “Just start making your game and stop overthinking”

RPG Developer Bakin (hereafter Bakin) is a PC game development engine coming from Japan that lets you create RPGs using intuitive controls, even if you’re not well-versed in programming. Its event ...
GitHub

Unity for Windows

Unity for Windows – powerful game development engine for creating 2D, 3D, VR, and AR applications, supporting a wide range of platforms. Unity is a powerful game development engine that allows you to ...
IGN

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Is Square Enix's Latest New Action RPG Coming to Switch 2

Today's Nintendo Partner Direct ended on a Square Enix double-whammy. One of the games is a brand new HD-2D action-RPG entitled The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, and it's coming to ...
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'Octopath Traveler 0' Is A HD-2D Turn-Based RPG Coming To Nintendo Switch/2, PlayStation, Xbox Series X|S And PC In December - Screens & Trailer

Octopath Traveler 0 is a HD-2D turn-based RPG featuring a standalone story set before Octopath Traveler. Octopath Traveler 0 is an expansive RPG that offers a fresh and exciting take on this acclaimed ...
Yardbarker

Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast From the Past – 2D Action RPG Launching in 2026

In the early 1990s, a quirky anime about (Samurai Pizza Cats) cybernetic cats running a pizzeria and fighting crime captured the imaginations of viewers worldwide. Originally titled Kyatto Ninden ...
Digital Trends

Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake is another RPG tightwire act

It was almost exactly one year ago when I first played Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. At the time, I wasn’t quite sure how players were going to react. I knew that RPG historians would be happy to see ...
PC Gamer

Move over, Daggerfall Unity—now there's a project to make the oldest, least accessible Elder Scrolls game actually playable

Confession time! I have never played The Elder Scrolls: Arena. I was the ripe old age of seven when it released, and my PC gaming debut was still several years away. I have toyed with the idea of ...