Western RPGs can keep players engaged for hours on end if everything clicks. Players love the sheer amount of love and work that goes into breathing life into these massive worlds and their characters ...

For games in particular, that particular entry is most likely Red Dead Redemption, basically the peak of what’s possible with a cowboy theme, a big open sandbox, and a lot of money.

It allows critics to frame role-playing games developed in Japan as separate from ‘Western’ RPGs - caught in their own bubble and cut off from the wider video game ecosystem.

DFC Intelligence, an international market research firm focused on cross-platform video game metrics, just joined hands with Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet to announce that the game is now the ...