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Game Awards Photoshops Bill Clinton Kid Out Of Elden Ring Speech
22.12.2022
The 2022 Game Awards ended with a random kid sneaking up on stage and muttering nonsense about “reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards is now, understandably, trying to pretend that never happened, blurring the kid out of a picture celebrating Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s second...
Ashley Bardhan's Top 5 Games Of 2022
19.12.2022
I only consider myself a “gamer” in a literal sense—I play video games every year, but only a modest handful of those already familiar to me, like my darling Bloodborne or Super Smash Bros. I started working at Kotaku this year, though, and by demand, 2022 became my most “gamer” year ever, with...
The Best RPGs Of 2022
14.12.2022
It was another banner year for role-playing games. Even as the genre beloved for dialogue choices, skill trees, and making the numbers go up gets slowly subsumed into every major blockbuster from Dying Light 2 to God of War Ragnarök, there were still plenty of standouts, both big and small.Read more
What To Expect From Armored Core VI, The Next Game From Elden Ring Devs
12.12.2022
Elden Ring studio FromSoftware is pivoting from demigods to giant mechs in Armored Core VI, and warning fans not to expect the cult-classic sci-fi franchise to go all “Soulsborne” on them. Instead, a new IGN interview with FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki and game director Masaru Yamamura...
Předávání Game Awards narušil chuligán, z pódia děkoval Billu Clintonovi
9.12.2022
Slavnostní předávání prestižních ocenění Game Awards za nejlepší videohru loňského roku narušil člověk z publika. Nečekaně se přidal k děkovným proslovům slavných vývojářů a poněkud krypticky poděkoval bývalému americkému prezidentovi Billu Clintonovi
Předávání herních Oscarů dopadlo podle očekávání, na novinky bylo ale bohaté
9.12.2022
V americkém Los Angeles proběhlo předávání prestižních ocenění Game Awards, které jsou obdobou filmových Oscarů. O hlavní cenu bojovala šestice her, jasným favoritem bylo ovšem akční RPG Elden Ring a právě to také vyhrálo. Dočkali jsme se ovšem i mnoha zajímavých odhalení nových her
Kid Sneaks Onto Game Awards To Nominate Bill Clinton, Is Arrested
9.12.2022
Yes, you heard that right. At the tail end of the 2022 Game Awards, right after the developers of FromSoftware collected their Game of the Year award for Elden Ring, a youth popped out from the shadows to nominate former president Bill Clinton (?). Shortly after, host Geoff Keighley announced...
Your Only Rule In Elden Ring’s PVP Colosseums Is To Have Fun
8.12.2022
Elden Ring got a free PvP expansion with update 1.08’s December 7 rollout, which opened up three colosseums in the Lands Between, all ready for your spilled blood. I returned to developer FromSoftware’s open world after a long vacation (I hadn’t touched it since the spring, I needed to experience...
2022 Gave Us Elon Musk Drama Every Month
7.12.2022
Whether you like it or not, Tesla/SpaceX/The Boring Company/Twitter/Neuralink CEO Elon Musk is inherently influential as the planet’s wealthiest person, and his influence covers a lot of ground—including that which is currently going on in the video game world. Not exclusively, since Musk’s year...
Elden Ring’s New Colosseum Update Arrives With Three New PvP Modes
7.12.2022
The Lands Between is ringing its calling bell once more. Fans awaiting Elden Ring’s PvP-focused update 1.08 can now jump in to challenge each other in epic showdowns that are sure to show off some of the most impressive builds out there. The update arrives with some expected opportunities...
Elden Ring Gets Free Colosseum PVP DLC After Months Of Fans Begging
6.12.2022
The wait is finally over if you’ve been dying for more Elden Ring content. Just days before The Game Awards, where fans have been (and probably should still be) speculating that developer FromSoftware would announce some sort of add-on for the game, the Japanese studio took to Twitter today...
Report: Elden Ring Devs Say FromSoftware Engages In 'Some Level Of Crunch'
29.11.2022
Crunch, or excessive overtime, is an epidemic in the games industry that leads to employee burnout and worker dissatisfaction. We’ve heard the stories of what excessive overtime can—and has—done to developers across the industry, including some of the biggest studios in the world. According to...
300 Tries Later, A Twitch Streamer Bodied 7 Souls Games Completely Unscathed
17.11.2022
So, there’s this thing in the FromSoftware community called the “God Run.” It’s a challenge run where you play through the studio’s various Soulsborne games without getting hit. It’s difficult, but not impossible. Two of them have been completed by other streamers already. And now, a third God...
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Stuns With 2022 GOTY Game Awards Nomination
14.11.2022
After guessing that Nintendo Switch hit Xenoblade Chronicles 3 would be the biggest snub at the 2022 Game Awards, stunned Xeno-heads and Tetsuya Takahashi-stans can’t believe it. Geoff Keighley revealed on Monday that it is actually one of the six finalists for his show’s Game of the Year category...
A Week Later, Elden Ring Undoes 'Invincible' Combat Change That Broke The Game
25.10.2022
If you’ve come across other savvy denizens of the Lands Between lately, you’ve probably not been having a great time playing Elden Ring multiplayer. Perhaps you’ve been getting punctured repeatedly by thrust weapons. More likely than not, though, you’ve found that every single one of your attacks...
Elden Ring Players Are Flocking To Thrust Weapons After The Patch, And With Good Reason
21.10.2022
Taking us one inch closer to an Elden Ring DLC, the 1.07 patch FromSoftware released a week ago introduced balance changes to PvP, magic and incantations, Skills, and a few welcome bug fixes. It’s had a few days to settle, and players are already noticing that, while the patch has allowed all types...
From Demon’s Souls To Elden Ring: The 9 Scariest FromSoftware Bosses
13.10.2022
FromSoftware has a penchant for creating horrifying enemies in its games. Usually either bloodied, deformed, or both, the developer’s grotesque monsters from Demon’s Souls to Elden Ring perfectly lend themselves to nightmare fuel, designs that almost always scare the shit outta me. They’re also...
Elden Ring Gets Massive Combat Overhaul As It Makes Way For DLC
13.10.2022
Another major update is shaking up the world of Elden Ring, and this time FromSoftware is calibrating the changes differently depending on whether you’re playing the main game or dunking on strangers in PVP. That addresses a longtime request by fans to balance the two sides of the game separately...
Now Is A Great Time To Jump Into The Hilarious Elden Ring Manga
5.10.2022
Elden Ring has an official free-to-read manga. It’s a comedy, something totally unexpected and truly nothing like the game itself despite some characters fitting their roles to a T. And now, after a new set of chapters has dropped for a limited time, I can confidently say that Elden Ring: The Road...
Apparently There's A Lore Reason Behind Elden Ring Runebears Being Such A Pain In The Butt
29.9.2022
Elden Ring throws all manner of fiendish monstrosities at you, but few will make your hair stand on edge the way a Runebear does after it catches your scent. I’ve only ever barely killed a few Runebears in the hundreds of hours I’ve put into FromSoftware’s open-world game; I’d literally rather...