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At the end of every year, I find myself looking back on its role-playing games and examining the trends, highlights, and disappointments. Putting it in perspective, 2012 won’t go down as a pinnacle year for RPGs, but if you look closely, the year held plenty to love. Operation Rainfall Comes To... More

Operation Rainfall was a fan-driven effort to bring three Japanese role-playing games to North America. Now, a year later, two of these games have released, and the third seems doomed. Looking back on Operation Rainfall, did all of the work pay off? On one hand, we got Xenoblade Chronicles, a game that... More

The Last Story, the latest game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, comes out on August 14. This Japanese role-playing game features a unique action-focus battle system, and a classic fantasy tale involving warring nations, giant monsters, and androgynous dudes. Joe Juba and Dan Ryckert joined... More

Not every game makes its way to North America. In many cases, this is understandable; train simulators and anime dating games wouldn’t find the same audience over here as they do overseas. But what about the games that seem like a good fit? Some of them are installments in well-known series, while... More