The design director of Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas, Josh Sawyer from Obsidian studio, believes that it is high time for the genre of role-playing games to evolve. Sawyer told about this at the Reboot Develop conference, which was held recently in Croatia.

The Japanese role-playing game Persona 5 sold over 2 million copies in a year. This is the best result among all the games in the Persona series, whose total sales amount to 8.9 million copies.

Known for the Forza racing series, Playground Games has hired game designers who worked on GTA V, Metal Gear Solid and Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.

The role-playing game Divinity: Original Sin 2 by Larian studio became the 4th most popular game on Steam in the first weekend after the release, which took place on September 14. At its peak, almost 86 thousand people are playing the project at the same time.