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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...
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...
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...
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
2022 Was The Year The Video Game Industry Ate Itself
6.12.2022
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Epic Games bought Mediatonic (Fall Guys), Sony bought Housemarque (Returnal), and Embracer bought Gearbox (Borderlands). It seemed like things might slow down in 2022, but instead they ramped up even more into an acquisition free-for-all....
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...
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...
Bloodborne Will Always Be My Game Of The Year
14.10.2022
“Hello, good hunter,” The Doll said to me after I accidentally visited Bloodborne’s first optional boss, the howling Cleric Beast, and obtained some of the game’s metaphysical currency, Insight. “I am a doll, here in this dream to look after you.” Read more
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...
This Bloodborne Enemy Captures Everything That Makes The Game So Terrifying
7.10.2022
Bloodborne has always given me goosebumps. It’s one of those games that, whenever I see its name or hear it in conversation, makes me shudder. Every facet of FromSoftware’s Lovecraftian homage, from the ominous soundtrack to the horrific bosses, sends shivers down my spine. But nothing in the game...
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...
Tencent, Sony Throw Big Money At Elden Ring Maker FromSoftware
1.9.2022
Elden Ring wasn’t just a hit with fans of FromSoftware’s notoriously difficult action-RPGs. Today Tencent Holdings and Sony announced they’ve acquired 30% of the Souls-series developer’s shares, split in favor of Tencent. FromSoftware is expected to gain $260 million from the arrangement.Read more
Sekiro God's No-Damage Run Was Three Years In Making
31.8.2022
No-hit runs in games—a kind of self-imposed challenge where you take zero damage from enemies—are nothing new, especially for tough-as-nails titles like Dark Souls. But Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice YouTuber TheUrbanOrb has taken that feat to the extreme, and after more than three years of practice...
The Pinocchio Action Game Is A Love Letter To FromSoftware, Not A Bloodborne Clone
31.8.2022
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Elden Ring Creepypasta Is Now Real, And It Is Delicious
30.8.2022
With the advent of data mining and instant information, getting video game campfire stories has become a rarity. It’s hard to spread a rumor that can immediately be fact-checked, and even legitimate mysteries tend to be deconstructed pretty quickly. But the beauty of modding is that it doesn’t have...
Elden Ring Fan's Incredible DLC Concept Project Almost Looks Real, Playable
24.8.2022
Elden Ring fans have spent the last few months begging FromSoftware for new content, but rather than wait, environmental artist Eugenia Lysa started imagining her own world. Then, she went all out to make it real.Read more