RPG

Wow, 2025 is flying by! It’s already shaping up to be an amazing year for games. We’ve had some surprise indie hits like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Blue Prince that are seriously in the running for Game of the Year, but the big AAA titles are also strong contenders. I’ve been totally hooked on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – it came out in February and everyone’s loving it. Warhorse Studios really nailed the sequel; the gameplay is so smooth, the world is huge and feels totally real, and it just looks fantastic. It’s definitely a top contender in my book!

Earlier this year, Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition was revealed for the Nintendo Switch 2, with a planned release in 2025. This version includes the complete Elden Ring game, plus the “Shadow of the Erdtree” expansion, offering players new armor, weapons, and ways to customize their mount, Torrent. It also adds two new character classes: Knight of Ides and Heavy Knight. Good news for players on other consoles – this new content will also be released for those platforms after the Switch 2 launch.

This isn’t surprising, as reports from Gamescom suggested the game’s frame rate could fall to as low as 15 frames per second when played in handheld mode. FromSoftware has stated they’ll share more information about the next update once they’ve finalized a release date.

The developer stated that work is still moving forward with full effort. However, they needed to postpone the release briefly to fine-tune performance.

Here are four shorter games that can satisfy that Elden Ring itch.

I’ve been checking out this new game, Where Winds Meet, being made by Everstone Studios, and it looks awesome! It’s a free-to-play online RPG set in an open world, and it’s based on this cool Chinese genre called Wuxia. If you’ve ever seen movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you’ll get the idea – think martial arts, fantasy, and a bit of magic all rolled into one.

The *Monster Hunter Now* Autumn Hunt 2025 event gives players a chance to hunt the powerful Elder Dragon Malzeno and earn special rewards during a limited-time quest. Successfully defeating or driving off Malzeno in this quest will grant players an exclusive hunter medal, a unique guild card background, materials to upgrade weapons and armor, and materials specifically from Malzeno.

A new trailer is coming shortly after Capcom announced Monster Hunter Stories 3 amiibo. Both the amiibo and the game will be available on March 13, 2026. If you haven’t seen them yet, you can check out the extended release date trailer from TGS 2025, as well as the announcements for Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, now available on Xbox One, to get ready for the new release.

When ranking Monster Hunter games, we’re focusing on how each one developed the series’ core ideas, not just how good they look or how much content they have. We’ll consider the Freedom series as updates to the games they’re based on, and this list will only include the main Monster Hunter titles – not spin-offs. Here’s our ranking of each game, from the earliest to the most recent, based on how they shaped the series.

ZeniMax Online Studios, established in 2007, gained a large fanbase with the popular game, The Elder Scrolls Online. The game continues to attract new players and has generated nearly $2 billion in revenue since 2014. Recently, however, Microsoft layoffs impacted the studio, resulting in over 300 job losses. This included staff working on a new, unannounced game called Project Blackbird, which Xbox has now cancelled. Fortunately, some of those affected have joined forces to create a new, independent game studio owned by its employees.