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Elden Ring Expansion Announced, Called Shadow of the Erdtree
28.2.2023
FromSoftware just announced a major expansion for most people’s 2022 Game Of The Year, Elden Ring, is in development. It’s called Shadow of the Erdtree.Read more
Elden Ring Sells 20 Million Copies, Makes Excellent Point
23.2.2023
It was announced earlier today that Elden Ring, FromSoftware’s 2022 Game Of The Year For Loads Of People (including most staff at this website), has sold 20 million copies worldwide since its release a year ago. That is a lot.Read more
Armored Core VI Devs Battle Fans Over Sexy Tag On Steam
14.2.2023
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is about a distant planet ravaged by war as factions fight for control of a dangerous new energy source. Fans of the upcoming FromSoftware game are currently engaged in a war of their own on the mech fighter’s Steam page, trying to tag the game as sexy and cute....
10 Elden Ring Characters, Ranked By Most To Least Single
13.2.2023
I have a reverential dedication to Elden Ring that I normally reserve only for the worst reality TV you’ve ever seen—surprising, but after a year of playing and on the eve of Valentine’s Day, I’m starting to think that they’re not so different. Read more
Popular Elden Ring Ending Proves Players Are Thirsty For Ranni
7.2.2023
FromSoftware’s mammoth role-playing game Elden Ring features six different endings, all with their own proportions of esotericism. The Age of Fracture ending, for example, really only requires you to beat the game, while other endings like the Age of Duskborn or Blessing of Despair need you...
The Queen Of Elden Ring Won’t Stop Finding New Ways To Beat The Game
26.1.2023
At the start of 2023, Twitch streamer MissMikkaa made headlines for beating Elden Ring’s notorious rot queen, Malenia, Blade of Miquella, with two completely different controllers at the same time. It was a ridiculous feat of dexterity and focus, but would you believe this method of play was...
This Fashion Designer's Latest Looks Are Straight Out Of Elden Ring
25.1.2023
I consider myself a FromSoftware fashion girlie in the purest sense; I know my gravekeeper cloaks from my crimson hoods, and a Dior saddle bag from the Fendi baguette. This crossover knowledge is rarely practical, but is occasionally useful for declaratives. Like, I’m sure that Schiaparelli...
Twitch Streamer Plays Elden Ring Using Only Her Brain
24.1.2023
When you tune into Twitch streamer Perrikaryal’s channel, you might see her playing FromSoftware’s role-playing game epic Elden Ring with fourteen, unfamiliar black sensors stuck to her scalp. It’s her—as she said during an informational stream earlier today—“just for fun” electroencephalogram...
Someone Made a GeoGuessr For Elden Ring
19.1.2023
If you played Elden Ring and are a fan of the wildly popular GeoGuessr game genre—in which you’re dropped into a Google Street View and tasked with pinpointing your location—then you may want to thank Redditor u/TheEdenChild. They recently announced they’d created an Elden Ring-based take...
Twitch Streamer Plays FromSoftware Games In A Truly Absurd Way
10.1.2023
Spend any time on the internet—whether Reddit, Twitter, or YouTube—and you’ve likely seen some streamer doing some absurd-ass playthrough of a Soulsborne game (probably Elden Ring). Whether it’s beating Margit with a harp or two Malenias simultaneously (one with a dance pad), there are some wild...
Steam Awards Crown To 'Best Game You Totally Suck At'
3.1.2023
At this point, it goes without saying that Elden Ring is one of the most popular games of the past year. It’s won copious trophies, including the coveted Game of the Year accolade at The Game Awards. It blasted developer FromSoftware into mainstream critical acclaim. It was even the most completed...
Kotaku's Top 10 Games of 2022
30.12.2022
I was warned of how heated Kotaku’s GOTY arguments traditionally get when I first started here in November, so I was a little nervous when I was put in charge of organizing and tabulating our list of the best games of the year. Read more
Elden Ring Was The Most Completed, And Most Quit, Game Of 2022
28.12.2022
2022 was truly the year of Elden Ring, with FromSoftware’s latest game exploding into the mainstream unlike anything it had previously created. As such, a lot of people played and finished Elden Ring. In fact, according to one set of data, Elden Ring was the most completed game of 2022. But funnily...
Fallout: New Vegas Director On Creating Some Of 2022's Best Video Game Characters
27.12.2022
2022 brought us a number of rich narratives in games. While heavy hitters like God of War: Ragnarok, Elden Ring, or Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion are likely to have their praises sung the loudest, there were also games like Obsidians’ Pentiment that are equally deserving of our attention....
2022 Was the Year Of Elden Ring
26.12.2022
2022 was the year of Elden Ring, of Miyazaki, of Malenia. The highly anticipated FromSoftware title held the industry by its throat for months, dominating the conversation around difficulty, damage scaling, and player builds (including everyone’s favorite nepo baby, Elon Musk). It took over...
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...
The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2022
15.12.2022
2022, as with many recent years, was a bit of a flaming trainwreck as we continued to deal with the covid-19 pandemic (and other viruses, too), soaring inflation, idiotic tech bros destroying things, and, unfortunately, so much more. But there was actually some good things that happened this year...
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...
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...
Armored Core VI Announced, Which Isn't A Souls Game
9.12.2022
FromSoftware is a development studio famous these days for the Souls games, but there was once a time that it was most famous for Armored Core, a mech combat series that has spanned decades and which is now making a comeback.Read more