We've all heard of the underground music scene. Most of us have probably even run across the slightly more dodgy underground film scene. But did you know that there was an underground gaming scene? Of ...

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is often considered one of the first examples of immersive sims, games focused on player agency and complex gameplay that emerges out of the interaction of ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Arx Fatalis has been a long time in coming. We were supposed to be knickers-deep in Arkane Studios' subterranean first-person role-playing epic last ...

From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...

A decade before Arkane Studios would create the silky-smooth stealth sandbox Dishonored, it released its debut – an altogether dirtier breed of first person action-RPG called Arx Fatalis.

If you don't have any hang-ups with wandering around in dark places, and you're looking for a deep and involving role-playing game, then you'd be doing yourself a favor by checking out Arx Fatalis.

While Morrowind immediately impressed players with graphical excellence, Arx Fatalis starts off rather less promisingly, with our hero character bashing his bonce and ending up in a murky prison cell, ...

Some games are over-hyped, others receive far less credit than they deserve, and every so often a game simply falls through the cracks and gets almost no attention at all. Arx Fatalis falls solidly ...

Without a doubt, the RPG genre has proven to be one of the largest and most popular areas of video games across both PC and console systems over the last few years. While the styles may vary a bit, ...