Ys VIII shows NIS America remains committed to bringing Japanese RPGs to Steam

If the Super Nintendo and then the PlayStation consoles were the best place for role-playing games from Japan years ago, the PC is a part of that lineage now. Publisher NIS America revealed today that is launching the Steam version of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana on January 30. Developer Falcom is also planning a […]

Songbringer is one designer’s procedurally generated ode to classic RPGs

Songbringer is an action role-playing game that’s hoping to clear the name of procedural generation. Nathanael Weiss, who developed the game under his studio name Wizard Fu, teamed up with publisher Double Eleven, and it’s available now for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Weiss thinks that procedural generation has gotten a bad rap when, […]