Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Now, if you’ve played and finished Dragon Quest XI and gotten the ...

A newly released Steam game has serious Octopath Traveler vibes, and the best part for fans of the genre is that it's completely free.

How do you make old games attractive to modern players? Masaaki Hayasaka, the producer of the remake, explains the magic behind the HD-2D style. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and ...

One Piece and Dragon Quest are pretty much two of the biggest phenomenons in modern Japanese media, with Dragon Quest being one of the earliest and still biggest Japanese RPG games ever created and ...

The 36-year-old game is remade anew for today's visual tastes, though decisions not to update the gameplay lead to a mixed bag. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over ...

With Kingdom Hearts 4 MIA, Disney Pixel RPG, a new mobile gacha game featuring Mickey Mouse and more, is here to tide you over. It's been over two years since we last heard anything about Kingdom ...

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 ...

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has called time on his previously teased but largely under the radar RPG.

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't interested in making another 2D adventure game, despite having brought the series ...

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Sometimes all it takes to make a new subgenre is an apostrophe. With just one hardworking punctuation mark, the newly christened J'RPG describes a refreshingly French spin on Japanese turn-based ...