Evan is a Communications student based in Edmonton, Alberta. Formerly a sports writer, he was drawn to Game Rant by his longtime passion for video games. An avid gamer since the age of 13, Evan has ...

Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland working for Game Rant, where she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games. Although she's not limited to a specific genre of ...

As a general rule, most open-world games are built to allow players to approach them at their own pace, offering unrestricted exploration and main objectives that create plenty of breathing room for ...

Open-world games started to get big because of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim in 2011. There were open-world games before that, but they increased after Skyrim for better and for worse. Some developers ...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a masterpiece of an open-world game. Warhorse Studios showed that it knew how to make a good game with its first entry in the series, and now with the sequel, the 14th ...

Nintendo has said it was unwilling to backtrack on the design of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's controversial open world hub despite seeing "changed" attitudes to open-world games, as the project had ...

Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure game set on the continent of Pywel. But how big is the open world, exactly? It’s “absolutely massive,” its developer has said, bigger even than that of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A 2023 open-world RPG often likened to Pokemon is free on the Epic Games Store for roughly the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook We’re a little over a week into 2026, and the year in gaming is off to a relatively slow start.

Square Enix's oft-forgotten cult game Sleeping Dogs is one step closer to being revived on the big screen, according to star Simu Liu, who's confirmed a director for the in-development flick. For ...

The prologue chapter of Arknights: Endfield will see you starting your journey as the Endministrator, the protagonist of the ...

Christian has three years of experience writing in the gaming industry, including guides and reviews, for publications such as Dualshockers, Attack of the Fanboy, and PC Invasion. He has been an avid ...