Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Does RPG Mean What it Did a Decade Ago?

Who are we? Why are we here? What can change the nature of a man? What is an RPG? All these questions have stumped scholars for millenia and yet they still don’t have definitive answers. At this point if someone…

The Best and Worst In-game Books and Codexes

While not focusing exclusively on RPGs, this PC Gamer article takes a good look at a number of games with books and codexes in them and tries to figure out what works and what doesn’t when one tries to cram…

The Five Best Years in PC Gaming History

PC Gamer has listed what they feel are the “top 5” best years for PC gaming, and while I don’t think they go back far enough (1985 was a crazy good year for adventure and RPG fans, in particular), the…

Good Side Quest Design – Rules and Examples

Side quests are a pretty important part of roleplaying games. Depending on how well they’re designed, side quests can make any game memorable or boring. But how does one create the former and not the latter? Gamasutra reached out to…

The Best Low-stakes RPG Quests

RPGs are not always about saving the world or making tough decisions with long-reaching implications. Sometimes they’re simply about getting blackout drunk and then dealing with the consequences, or helping a tree get its revenge on a long-dead lumberjack. And…

The History of RPG Magic

Magic, in one way or another, is a staple of most RPGs and as a result it can be all too easy to forget that magic is not just an alternative to bows when it comes to dealing ranged damage,…

The Witcher 3 Outgrossed Some of 2017’s Biggest Games

That title is followed up by a provocative and highly accurate “because it’s just that good” in this new editorial on PC Gamer, where they go on to praise CD Projekt’s RED’s CRPG for “outselling almost everything else on Steam”…

GB Feature: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Content Overload

Standing as one of the largest role-playing games we’ve ever covered here on GameBanshee, our new The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt subsite is jam-packed with fully annotated walkthroughs for the original game, the Hearts of Stone expansion, and the Blood…