A new game featuring classic Disney villains launched today on the Nintendo Switch and other platforms. In Disney Villains: Cursed Café, players will act as a potions barista, combining ingredients to ...

Some of the most popular villains in video game history are tools for great storytelling. Their background can sometimes become the basis for incredible discussions. A few times, antagonists can even ...

Matthew Mendisana is a journalist and writer with a passion for storytelling and a love for games and movies. That love carried him through college, while not letting his Autistic Spectrum hold him ...

Villains in horror games can be scary through body horror, unpredictability, or creepiness. Some horror games fall flat with non-threatening villains, reducing the fear factor. Ramon Salazar from ...

While video game villains play an important role in a story, they often get the short end of the stick. Painting them as power-hungry tyrants, tragic misfits, or relentless forces of evil typically ...

Nicholas Turner is a writer on Game Rant. He’s also an avid consumer of comics, film, TV, theater, and—of course—video games. Struck by an affliction for loving stories as a young whippersnapper, ...

I’m starting to think I’m either completely desensitized to horror, or the standard villain in these games aren’t particularly scary. You can, however, get a ...

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Adam is a lifelong gamer who enjoys RPGs, action adventure games and a healthy helping of VR to boot. He has written for countless sites in the gaming medium, and you can find him playing the newest ...

Eric Warner is a Journalist and Multimedia Producer based in New England with over seven years of experience producing stories for multiple print, online, radio, and video publications. Eric has been ...

Every year we play a ton of great games that we celebrate in December, and those games can be great for all sorts of reasons: amazing level design, incredible atmosphere, outstanding combat or ...

Dr. Wily deserves a spot on this list for being one of the first recurring villains on the NES. Each Mega Man game featured a unique cast of robot masters to fight, but the same mad scientist was ...