Action Role-Playing Games (aka action RPG or ARPG), are games that have gameplay similar to the action or hack and slash genre, but include role playing elements such as leveling or statistical upgrades.
Most Action RPGs employ a real-time combat approach with the game being augmented with quests, missions, or additional tasks that the player can complete to earn better gear or increase their stats - a staple of the RPG genre.
Just as fans were within reach of the Final Fantasy VII Remake releasing this March it seems that something has caused the game to be delayed a month further. This change was announced this morning…
January 14, 2020 | 09:59 EST
Will we be seeing a Final Fantasy 7 remake PC version? According to what some data miners have found, the odds are looking good. As PC Gamer reports, data miners have discovered bits of code which…
January 6, 2020 | 09:00 EST
As per usual for the last few days, it is time to report on the latest free offerings from Epic Games Store. Hyper Light Drifter was teased yesterday when Faster Than Light was available at the time…
December 27, 2019 | 01:00 EST
While you are making your way through Borderlands 3's first DLC, Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot, you may encounter a slew of new weapons. Of these, a dozen are going to be Legendary guns that…
December 22, 2019 | 07:30 EST
Thanks to the near-universal praise that Borderlands 2's DLC received, it's sequel has some large shoes to fill. At first glance, the premise of Borderlands 3's first DLC, Moxxi's Heist of the…
December 26, 2019 | 01:00 EST
Borderlands 3 has finally released for Google Stadia. However, the version available to Stadia players is currently an older version of the game from two months ago. The 1.0 version of Borderlands …
December 18, 2019 | 02:30 EST
More hacking and slashing is in the future for the Bergson family, much to the enjoyment to fans of the action-packed dungeon crawling adventure, Children of Morta. Today, Children of Morta…
December 17, 2019 | 06:00 EST
We got yet another Final Fantasy VII Remake trailer, this one from The Game Awards 2019. This trailer puts the main protagonist Cloud in the spotlight, as we get to see more of him in action. The…
December 12, 2019 | 10:52 EST
Now that Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind has been officially announced, we have more information on the game rather than just a leaked trailer. In a press release, Square Enix says that the new content…
December 11, 2019 | 10:30 EST
If you were hoping to get Final Fantasy VII Remake on the PC or Xbox, it sounds like you'll be waiting even longer. The box art for the game has been updated to reveal that Final Fantasy VII Remake…
December 10, 2019 | 08:00 EST
The newest trailer for Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind has been launched ahead of time, and it gives us an exciting new look at the DLC. Right from the opening moments, we can see one of the biggest…
December 7, 2019 | 08:05 EST
Kingdom Hearts III is the long-awaited culmination of the Dark Seeker saga that began with 2002's Kingdom Hearts. Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy must search for the seven guardians of light and foil…
December 2, 2019 | 08:21 EST
Today, Tokyo-based indie developers Onion Games (who in the past have worked on titles such as Little King's Story, Chulip, Rez, and Super Mario RPG), have announced that their latest title, Dandy…
November 29, 2019 | 02:30 EST
In Dandy Dungeon, you are Yamada-kun, a programmer at a major game publisher who hates his job. When you aren't at your job, you are at your apartment, working away to create a game of your own, an…
November 29, 2019 | 01:26 EST
Crumbling World, a dark action RPG developed by Dani Marti and published by Dume Arts, entered public alpha testing today. Taking place in a "sinister, decomposing land," Crumbling World features…
November 25, 2019 | 08:37 EST
Crumbling World is a dark fantasy ARPG by Dani Marti and Duma Arts that has you battling corrupted enemies as one of 7 characters. With five different classes among them, battle across procedurally…
November 25, 2019 | 08:28 EST
More than 20 new Final Fantasy 7 Remake screenshots have been released. They're all quite pretty, of course, but the really neat news is that some of these screenshots are also detailing new features…
November 25, 2019 | 03:00 EST
The first major piece of post-launch content has arrived for Borderlands 3 in the form of a raid. Dubbed the Takedown at the Maliwan Blacksite, the raid is intended for players who are at the endgame…
November 25, 2019 | 12:00 EST
If you've been a fan of Code Vein then good news, more is on the way next year. The three packs promised in the season pass will all be launching in early 2020. So what will this DLC include? Well…
November 23, 2019 | 09:30 EST
If you're ready for an all-new heist, Borderlands 3's first campaign DLC has been announced. Titled Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot, the DLC sees you flying off to a Handsome Jack-themed casino…
November 21, 2019 | 09:30 EST
It appears that Anthem is not going anywhere any time soon. According to a new report by Kotaku's Jason Schreier, BioWare and EA are not only sticking to the online looter shooter, but are…
November 16, 2019 | 11:30 EST
The first weapons DLC, the Public Enemy Weapon Pack, for The Surge 2 is live now, bringing thirteen new weapons to the difficult action RPG. The new weapons cover eight different classes of weapons,…
November 14, 2019 | 08:30 EST
The Nioh 2 open beta is here months ahead of release. Available to anyone with a PlayStation 4 until November 10, this highly-anticipated sequel follows Team Ninja's uber-difficult world established…
November 6, 2019 | 12:00 EST
"Major barriers" in Dark Souls mods have finally been broken, allowing innovating modders the capability to load truly custom maps into the game for the first time. Although the Dark Souls…
November 6, 2019 | 02:00 EST
Nioh 2 is the sequel to the smash-hit action RPG of the same name. Developed by Team Ninja, the same team behind the uber-difficult Ninja Gaiden Series, asks you to prepare to die again and again as…
November 23, 2019 | 09:13 EST
Those of you who may have been hoping for a Diablo 4 Offline Mode are going to be sorely disappointed — Blizzard has confirmed that their newest action role-playing game is going to have an always-…
November 4, 2019 | 01:00 EST
One of the worst kept secrets over the past week is that Blizzard was going to announce Diablo 4 at BlizzCon, and after an apology from President J. Allen Brack about the Blitzchung incident, Diablo…
November 1, 2019 | 02:21 EDT
Good news for fans of samurai and hard action games. Nioh 2 now has a release date of March 13th, 2020, and an open beta will be starting for free today. Additionally, you can now pre-order the game…
November 1, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
After being announced recently, the season pass for sci-fi soulslike The Surge 2 has now been detailed. The season pass, which is available right now, is broken into four parts. The first…
October 30, 2019 | 01:50 EDT
According to a press release added to Capcom's website today, the company has experienced a growth in profit attributed heavily to brisk sales of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, which released on…
October 30, 2019 | 12:02 EDT
The Autumn Harvest Fest for Monster Hunter: World is in full swing in Astera with a plethora of new themed items to collect. Capcom has also announced when Monster Hunter World: Iceborne will be…
October 29, 2019 | 08:30 EDT
If you've been waiting for a different take on the Persona formula, it seems like that take is coming closer. A new trailer for Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers was released, and it gives us…
October 24, 2019 | 08:34 EDT
Wanted to get some free stuff in sci-fi souls-like The Surge 2? Then good news, you can get it today. Additionally, new, paid, content will be making its way to the game sometime soon. If…
October 23, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
Follow the adventure of three heroes as they embark on a quest to discover the conspiracy plaguing the city of Baldur's Gate, and the resurrection of an ancient evil from the mysterious place known…
October 27, 2019 | 05:42 EDT
The Bloody Harvest is nothing new to the Borderlands franchise, and the third installment of the series is continuing the tradition of celebrating the spookiest time of the year with another edition…
October 22, 2019 | 01:30 EDT
Werewolf: The Apocalypse- Earthblood is the first RPG to use this part of the popular World of Darkness setting for a video game. Players play as Cahal, an eco-terrorist werewolf exiled from your…
October 26, 2019 | 09:13 EDT
French developer Cyanide appeared onstage at PDXCON this year to reveal that Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood is coming in Summer 2020. This is the first major adaptation of White Wolf's …
October 26, 2019 | 09:13 EDT
Bioware and EA have announced that Anthem is getting a Halloween event. Titled Season of Skulls, this event will give you a chance to brave the fog and earn some fun awards. Seasons of Skulls has…
October 18, 2019 | 01:28 EDT
Unsouled is a deep and melancholic action RPG from developer Jinsub Jung and publisher PQube. A man and a woman find themselves imbued with the grisly power of absorbing the souls of the dead. A…
October 17, 2019 | 09:01 EDT
Publisher PQube and one-man developer Jinsub Jung have announced a new project. Unsouled is a dark and atmospheric action-RPG set in a destructible 3D pixel art world. It's coming to PC in spring…
October 17, 2019 | 08:56 EDT
A recent Anthem update may have just wiped out any earned event currency. That's not too big of a deal on its own — special, time-limited currencies get removed or rendered useless after special in-…
October 16, 2019 | 01:38 EDT
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is the first and likely only expansion for World that we’ll get, so Capcom made sure it’s full of new creatures to fight. There are tons of them, so much so that it can…
October 8, 2019 | 08:24 EDT
Earlier today, developer Dead Mage and publisher 11 bit studios announced that the release date for Children of Morta's Nintendo Switch version has been delayed from October 15th to November 20th.…
October 7, 2019 | 03:30 EDT
"The beginning of the desecration of the Fallout franchise by Bethesda, Fallout 3 at least made a, poorly executed, attempt to stay true to many of the series roots while taking it from an isometric…
October 7, 2019 | 09:56 EDT
Set during the Spanish Flu epidemic in London, players will portray Dr. Jonathan Reid, who is turned into a Vampire and must grapple with the morality of his undead condition, and the new hunger for…
October 6, 2019 | 07:33 EDT
The first Souls game by From Software, Demon's Souls laid down the beginnings of the formula that would be refined in Dark Souls and Bloodborne, along with unique multiplayer and other ideas.…
October 6, 2019 | 06:51 EDT
At first glance, Moze, the soldier of Borderlands 3’s roster of playable Vault Hunters, seems rather mundane. Compared to characters that can summon animals and clones and elemental fists, the…
October 5, 2019 | 08:00 EDT
Dark Souls is one of those games that just screams classic. The series has impacted the games industry for both triple-A and indie developers over the years. Games like Salt & Sanctuary and Dark…
October 2, 2019 | 02:59 EDT