"It was kind of nice to hear 'hey, that game sucks, but the map's pretty cool'. I did my job." ...

But mention it I must! Because as we all remember, Breath of the Wild was the first big-budget, third-person, open world ...

This Skyrim side quest tells the story of a family’s horrific end, and players who do not thoroughly explore the map may miss ...

Deliverance II - I'm calling it early. As hype fades and competition mounts, this open-world game pushes new heights.

There are many distinct, key elements about Skyrim that prove to players again and again that it's always worth their time. It's to the point where even today, nearly 15 years aft ...

Oblivion changed the gameplay of the series for the worse when it introduced level scaling and Skyrim continued the trend.

but it’s more compact than the standard set by games like Skyrim, and that’s one of its biggest strengths. The most obvious way Avowed uses scale to its advantage is in the game’s map.

To this day the only game with more downloads on Nexus Mods than Skyrim is Skyrim Special Edition. Looking back, part of what ...

Relighting Skyrim entirely reprograms the game’s light sources ... One of the most popular mods, Quality World Map boosts the visuals on Skyrim’s world map, adding plenty of details like ...

There's a lot of beauty in Assassin's Creed Shadows' open world, but the challenge to experience it is just enough to be a little annoying.

Nintendo's new edition of one of the decade's most quietly influential RPGs has become one of my favorite gaming experiences ever.

Game studios have cranked out surprising hits ranging from cooperative platformers to historical epics. NPR staff and ...