Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

There’s nothing quite like the unrestricted freedom of exploration and adventure that’s granted by the open-world genre, which is evident in the ever-growing popularity of such games. Just this year, ...

Every player comes to the open-world games in search of freedom and adventure, to escape reality and go exploring distant virtual worlds brimming with discovery. The genre is all about deciding where ...

Gerardo is a marketing major and copywriter with over 4 years of experience. He fell in love with gaming as a toddler when his maternal grandmother bought him a Nintendo NES. Ever since then, he ...

Eric Warner is a contributor at DualShockers with over seven years of journalism and multimedia production experience across print, online, radio, audio, and video publications. He has been writing ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

The first console generation didn’t feature a game that could be classified as an open-world game. While there wasn’t a console game, there was one on computers that somewhat featured what could be ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Open-world action and adventure games are becoming “commonplace” in ...

A 2024 PS5 open-world action-adventure game is 80% off on the PS Store in a limited-time deal that ends next week. Described as a AAAA game by Ubisoft, Skull & Bones is down to just $5.99 in the ...

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...

When executed well, open-world games deliver exploration that surpasses pretty much any other genre. These games do it very well. Some open-world games are huge, but not fun to explore because there ...