Cast your mind, if you will, to the distant era of 1998. This was the year that Pocket Monsters finally landed on western shores, and you took the reins of a plucky young trainer for the very first ...

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is all about those tabletop RPG vibes, but the random encounters will take you straight back to Pokemon Red and Blue - if you want them to, anyway. The travels you'll undertake ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Random encounters are some of the most frequently employed features in recent video games. These encounters — which occur at arbitrary points when exploring the game world — have their roots in early ...