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In Elden Ring, Even Hugs Can Be Dangerous
28.2.2022
Elden Ring, like many Souls games before it, can be a little coy when it comes to providing you with important information. Case in point, you’ve probably noticed a peculiar icon below your health, magic, and stamina bars depicting a red square with a down arrow. “Where the heck did that come...
Elden Ring Players Keep Owning Each Other About Being 'Maidenless'
28.2.2022
Picture this: you’ve just crawled out of the Elden Ring tutorial area. You’ve just taken down the first miniboss with your hide barely intact. Then out of absolutely nowhere, a stranger makes fun of you for not having a girlfriend. Or at least, that’s how many players have chosen to interpret...
A Ton Of Xbox Players Can't Play Elden Ring Online
26.2.2022
Elden Ring is currently one of the most highly praised games in recent memory and also having its fair share of troubles on PC and PS5. Most recently, tons of Xbox players have reported being unable to play the open world RPG online since it launched yesterday. Read more
I'm Already Cheesing Elden Ring Enemies And I Feel Zero Shame
25.2.2022
When faced with an overwhelming adversary, sometimes the only option is to fight dirty. In my case, Elden Ring dev FromSoftware is a gigantic Goliath and I’m just little ol’ David loading up his sling. As such, I felt no shame adopting hit-and-run tactics against a terrifying enemy after finding...
Elden Ring Shatters Dark Souls Records On Twitch And Steam
25.2.2022
FromSoftware’s Elden Ring has been out for less than a day, and it’s already taken over Twitch and Steam. The open world action-RPG is posting unprecedented numbers for a Souls-like.Read more
Screw This Elden Ring ‘Treasure Chest’
24.2.2022
I ran into my first Elden Ring trap. It was designed to look like a treasure chest, nestled safely in a low-level area of FromSoftware’s latest action RPG, but it took me on a whirlwind journey through some of the nastier parts of the game’s crumbling world.Read more
Elden Ring's First Scary Obstacle Is A Simple Bridge
23.2.2022
A rickety, wooden bridge in many games is just that: a way to get across a gap to the next objective. But in Souls games, FromSoftware often utilizes these atmospheric flourishes for more devious ends. That’s why, when Elden Ring presented me with such an obstacle a few short moments into my...
FromSoftware's Notorious Poison Zones Appear 90 Seconds Into Elden Ring
23.2.2022
Last week, I said FromSoftware was “back on its bullshit” in response to the moody Elden Ring cinematic that introduces the game’s world and major characters. I wish I’d saved that particularly evocative phrase for today’s story instead because, if finding a way to poison the player in less than...
Elden Ring Reviews Call The Game A Challenging Open-World Masterpiece
23.2.2022
The review embargo for Elden Ring, From Software’s highly anticipated and tough-as-nails action role-playing game, has finally lifted ahead of its February 25 launch. Critics have started publishing their reviews online, giving you an opportunity to see just where the latest Soulslike stands...
One Annoying NPC Connects Elden Ring To Dark Souls, Bloodborne, And Armored Core
23.2.2022
Elden Ring may look a lot like Dark Souls but, as far as we know right now, it’s entirely its own thing in terms of narrative and lore. That doesn’t mean, however, there aren’t legitimate links between From Software’s latest action RPG and previous games like Demon’s Souls, Bloodborne, and even...
Elden Ring’s Moody Intro Proves From Software Is Back On Its BS
17.2.2022
Dark Souls developer From Studios’ next adventure, the open-world Elden Ring, is right around the corner, which naturally means copies are leaking into the wild ahead of its official February 25 release date. And while gameplay footage is all well and good, we’ve seen a bunch of that already....
Hacker: Elden Ring May Suffer Same Serious Online Exploits As Dark Souls III
10.2.2022
All PC versions of the Dark Souls games will remain offline for the foreseeable future, according to a new tweet from series publisher Bandai Namco, in order to fix at least one major security vulnerability. Further, the developers are working to ensure that the same serious vulnerability does...
Demon’s Souls Expert Claims PS5 Remake Still Hides Secrets
7.2.2022
Several unique items have yet to be unearthed in the PlayStation 5 remake of Demon’s Souls, trusted modder and dataminer Lance McDonald recently stated on Twitter. That said, he’s not quite ready to give up the details.Read more
Elden Ring Director On Game's Difficulty: 'More Players Will Finish It'
28.1.2022
We are less than a month out from the release of Elden Ring. Some are already planning to take off from work to play it. Others are planning to take off from the internet to avoid what will likely be another round of game difficulty discourse. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki has broached the subject...
Dark Souls Servers Down Due To Exploit That Could Give Someone Control Of Your PC
23.1.2022
Earlier this morning, Bandai Namco and From Software announced that all the servers for Dark Souls Remastered, 2, and 3 were temporarily shut down because of an “issue with online services.” While the publisher didn’t share more details, it’s believed the “issue” is a recently publicized PC exploit...
Elden Ring Character Creator Leaks And Fans Are Totally Loving It
10.1.2022
As we get closer to Elden Ring’s February 25 launch, footage of its character creator has leaked, and fans of the upcoming action-RPG think it looks dope. In fact, folks are saying it looks better than the character creators in FromSoftware’s previous games, like Bloodborne and Dark Souls III.Read...
Congratulations To George R.R. Martin On Completing A Blog Post About Elden Ring
20.12.2021
Having begun his work on From Software’s Elden Ring years ago, around 2017-18, A Song Of Ice And Fire author George R.R. Martin has now completed what may be his last piece of writing on the game, publishing a post on his personal blog.Read more
Bloodborne Vibes Weren’t Intentional, Say Pinocchio Souls-Like Devs
2.12.2021
Earlier this month, South Korean developer Round8 Studio shared early gameplay footage for Lies of P, its upcoming Souls-like based on the classic Pinocchio fairy tale. And while the dark fantasy setting elicited obvious comparisons to From Software masterpiece Bloodborne, the devs recently told...
This Lightning-Fast Action Game Is Like A Cyberpunk Tomb Raider With Warframe's Swordplay
22.11.2021
Bright Memory Infinite is an ambitious first-person shooter action game that fuses the futuristic samurai combat of something like Warframe with the epic adventure and platforming of games like Tomb Raider. But while FYQD-Studio’s game is an improvement upon its 2020 build, Bright Memory, there...
Elden Ring May Just Reinvent The Open-World Genre
19.11.2021
From Software, as you may already know, has a new game coming out early next year. It’s called Elden Ring, and after spending a few hours with it during last week’s preview, I’m here to say that it’s shaping up to be something really special.Read more