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It’s been confirmed that Yoshitaka Murayama, the creator of the Suikoden series and head of the Japanese developer Rabbit & Bear Studios, has died “due to complications with an ongoing illness.”

A new patch for the sprawling role-playing game (RPG) Baldur’s Gate 3is on the way, and developer Larian Studios has been teasing some of the changes that are in store. In addition to enhanced kissing animations (which the studio says will provide “improved smooches” across the board), the update will also simplify the process of dismissing one of your current companions.

Larian Studios has revealed a few features coming in Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6 alongside its colossal file size.

Looking for something to scratch that retro role-playing game itch, but don’t want to purchase a brand-new game? Well, if you’d rather make your own, you can always check out the expansive list of RPG Maker toolkits, which are currently on sale.

Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a hit, selling over one million copies since going on sale early February 2024.

Wizards of the Coast has been teasing the next revision of the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition ruleset since at least 2022. At the same time, it’s been working to temper fans’ expectations while managing multiple controversies — including, but not limited to, the OGL debacle, a particularly heinous round of holiday layoffs by its corporate owner, and a complicated recall of defective products. It also assured fans that the rules will be backward-compatible and player-focused, with lots of good guidance for novice Dungeon Masters. Also? They aren’t going to be complete until 2025.

The CEO of Jagex, Phil Mansell, has reassured players of the developer and publisher’s massively multiplayer online role-playing games, RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, that the company being acquired won’t negatively impact the games. Namely, «there are no intentions of changing our [games’] business models.”

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian has said the game’s next big patch comes out next week, and teased some of the improvements it’s set to make to the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

Japanese game developer and publisher Acquire, which is arguably best known for co-developing Square Enix’s 2D-HD role-playing games Octopath Traveler and its sequel, Octopath Traveler 2, has been acquired as a “wholly owned subsidiary” by Kadokawa Corporation. 

It's awards season, and the finalists are in! This year's DICE Awards, held on February 15th, are packed with 2023's biggest hitters — and Diablo 4 has been nominated for not one, not two, but three separate awards. 27th Annual DICE Awards Finalists DICE Awards Full Panelist List The DICE Awards is the video game industry’s premier, peer-juried awards show held by The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS). Professionals from across the video game industry serve as the peer jury, voting on the finalists through a secured confidential ballot.

With GTA 6 generating buzz for its gripping single-player storyline, the spotlight is increasingly turning toward the highly anticipated online component. The success of GTA 5's online experience, particularly the meteoric rise of GTA Online RP servers, has captured the imagination of gamers worldwide, paving the way for a call for dedicated support in the upcoming GTA 6.

“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” That’s the tagline of Warhammer 40,000, one of the most over-the-top and brutal sci-fi settings around. But even in a merciless, brutal dystopia that grinds its people into dust, some get to enjoy being on the top of the food chain. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is about the perils and pleasures of being atop that particular hierarchy.

With Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.1, CD Projekt Red plans to introduce a long-anticipated feature to the RPG - a full metro system.

Quest Portal, a startup dedicated to making tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) more accessible online, raised $7.6 million in funding.

In late 2001, the dot-com crash struck ZeniMax, and a team of thirty-some developers in the company’s basement feared for their jobs. They were late delivering their new role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, to Microsoft; their board of directors had begun having doubts about the whole videogame enterprise. People were pulling seven-day workweeks on something none of them were sure would ever see the light of day. Morale was in the toilet.

Rockstar Games announced Friday that it has acquired Cfx.re, the team behind Grand Theft Auto 5 mod FiveM and Red Dead Redemption 2 mod RedM, two popular mods that power custom multiplayer and robust role-playing experiences on those games.

Game Informer can exclusively reveal a full track from Summerfall Studios’ upcoming Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical called “Adrift.”