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Role-playing games allow players to transport themselves into fantastical worlds to play as characters with unique abilities, motivations, and personalities. While these games all have different subgenres and playstyles, they all have the same thing in common: the ability to transport gamers into immersive stories.

With so many RPGs readily available, it can be confusing and downright overwhelming to pick which game you want to tackle next. To help everyone out, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best RPGs you can purchase and play on PC.

It’s the end of an era as Shirley Curry, better known by her online nickname “Skyrim Grandma,” officially retired from gaming content creation at 88.

Curry uploaded a video to her YouTube channel on Sept. 22 entitled “No More Gaming Videos” in which she discussed an upcoming surgery on her right eye and informed viewers she will be retiring from making gaming videos after almost a decade of content. “It doesn’t make me too happy, but it’s something I feel now, and I don’t think you’re gonna like it either, but I can’t help it,” she said. “I’m old; I’m tired.”

The Elder Scrolls 6 continues to have fans speculating on what features could make their way to the game. However, there is one key subject I believe hasn’t been getting talked about enough: Radiant AI.

The inclusion of Radiant AI in Oblivion is a standout feature and if Bethesda is looking to add a fountain of extra flair to how truly alive a world can feel, Radiant AI is certainly one way to go about it. Radiant AI itself was developed by Bethesda and simply is when NPCs effectively feel like they have their very own lives due to the choices they can make, reactions they have to certain things around them, and the background systems in play. A great comparison to this is how The Sims series has its AI running and interacting with the world.

The latest Skyrim Special Edition update has upset the modding community and has the potential to leave a dent in their wallets.

Today’s Skyrim Special Edition update was designed to craft an enhanced platform for the community to use when exploring community-made mods. This included a series of UI changes, alongside multiple unfavorable tweaks in the eyes of the player base. The modding community might be familiar with this already as this is what the previous system did already. The update, in Bethesda’s eyes, is meant to “empower developers and enthusiasts to bring their Creations to a wider audience.”

We’ve all got games we start and never actually get around to finishing, but it turns out that over two-thirds of Skyrim players haven’t actually completed the main quest yet.

Inspired by a Reddit post about games people keep restarting but never finishing, I decided to dig into the stats for Skyrim, as a lot of people suggested they had barely even touched the title’s main questline. According to Skyrim‘s Steam achievements, just 31.5 percent of you have actually slain Alduin and officially finished the game. I’ll admit, after spending hundreds of hours in the Norse frost myself, I had to force myself to basically speedrun a main quest playthrough to do it, but it’s still wild how many people haven’t.

I was feeling miserable earlier this week. When writing about video games is your day job, it can be hard to take pleasure in them, especially as the pressure to churn out articles on the newest releases can suck all the fun out of them. So, I downloaded Skyrim‘s Anniversary edition on my PS5, more as a cry for help than anything else, and I happily discovered an entirely new game.

After busting out of Helgen with Ralof (you’d never catch me chumming up to the people who just tried to behead me), I was met with a menu I’d never seen before: did I want to enable survival mode?