Tag: elden ring

Of Games, Engines, and Culture Wars: A 2024 GDC Retrospective

Something is rotten in the streets of San Francisco. Excrement bakes into the asphalt as the light of day burns the refuse into the asphalt. Needles pile from wasted years of moral highs. The Game Developers Conference has wrapped. Elbow rubbed elbow and jerk rubbed jerk among the usual crowd playin...

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A Recap of the 2022 Game Awards

The gaming world’s version of the Oscars just wrapped up with plenty of ads and cringe, along with some surprising reveals and not-so-surprising award winners. Since this was the longest Game Awards show yet, I’ll make it easier to get through by first going through the new games and tra...

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New Starfield Details Confirm No Seamless Landing on Planets Among Other Things

A new interview between Todd Howard and IGN clarified a surprising number of details regarding Bethesda’s upcoming open-world sci-fi RPG Starfield. While Todd has been known to exaggerate, some of the things he shared seem very plausible and intelligent. More Hand-Crafted Content Than any Oth...

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REVIEW: Elden Ring (2022)

Elden Ring is the latest action RPG Soulslike epic by FromSoftware. The studio known for challenging boss fights and labyrinthine dungeon design had a lot to live up to after its award-winning samurai adventure, Sekiro, and live up to it they did with a 100+ hour open-world adventure and more charac...

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Elden Ring Sales Break Records, Best-Selling New IP in Years

FromSoftware’s latest dark fantasy epic, Elden Ring, released on February 25th to near-universal acclaim. The reviews were pretty much 10s across the board, with a few review bombs on PC due to optimization issues. Currently, the Metacritic score for Elden Ring stands around 95 for the com...

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The Influence and Legacy of Dark Souls – Part 2

Continuing from part 1 of our look into FromSoftware’s legacy is a showcase of the many games inspired by the rich Souls series, as well as a general timeline of Souls-like games since 2009’s Demon’s Souls. The range of titles that share some of that Souls DNA is broader than I initial...

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