All DualShockers writers came together to vote on the 10 best RPGs of 2025, highlighting those in a year packed with amazing ...

These open-world RPGs truly shine after the first 20 hours, rewarding persistence with deeper quests, richer worlds, and ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

A fanciful 19th-century retreat sits on an island known as the Rock in Lough Key, in County Roscommon. Beneath the building lie the remains of a castle belonging to the MacDermots, one of medieval ...

Dreams have a funny way of staying dreams, except when they don’t, and RavenStone Castle in Harvard, Illinois is proof that sometimes fantasy becomes reality right here in the Midwest.

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn't feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they're usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging magic ...

While everyone’s busy fighting over parking spots in Chicago or arguing about the correct pronunciation of “Illinois” (it’s silent, people), there’s an actual honest-to-goodness castle sitting in ...

These two castles represent the most significant examples illustrating the exchange of influences and documenting the evolution of fortified architecture in the Near East during the time of the ...

The 65km-stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles, historic towns and vineyards, graphically illustrates the long history of human involvement with a dramatic and varied natural landscape.

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