The gaudy, meme-filled Dark Souls II mod that the internet loves to hate
Meme Souls in full-swing.
Dark Souls 2
Hidetaka Miyazaki’s transcendent quest for beauty in Bloodborne
The obsessions of an artist.
High Scores: The Best of 2014
Deliver a baby, save the world, kick your friend’s asses. Our year-end list starts here.
The insidious influence of blockbuster cinema on videogames
Going big, going home.
Dark Souls II: The Lost World
In its first batch of DLC, From Software looks (exclusively) to the past
Bloodborne is dragging Demon’s Souls forward by pulling from its past
Dark Souls II definitely earned the numeral in its title, whatever you thought of the game proper. It reworked and remixed Dark Souls but there was little in it that felt unfamiliar to series veterans. But the mastermind of misery himself Hidetaka Miyazaki, absent from Souls II, has returned with Bl
How ironic is it that Watch Dog’s leaderboards are already hacked?
All it took was one day for the online multiplayer leaderboards for Watch Dogs to get hacked, perhaps not surprising for a game about using cyber-jacking abilities to crack into overreaching surveillance systems. As you see in the above screenshot, captured by Reddit user unsubdefaults, players suc
The impossible has occurred: Trolls are a force for good
Videogames subsume “that kid.”
Watch Dogs’ multiplayer critiques our always-connected world
Who hacks the hack dogs?
A beginner’s guide to Kierkegaard, via Dark Souls 2
Absurdity and leaps of faith.
Wayward Souls will eat you alive
As brutal as Super Hexagon, as cute as Jetpack Joyride.
Box Art Review: DARK SOULS II IS BOTH EFFECTIVE AND RIDICULOUS
Quoth Hans Zimmer: “BROMMMM.”
Playlist 3/19: Retro Game Crunch is loaded, Dark Souls 2 is importunate, and please be nice :( is evolving
Three games you can believe in.
Dark Souls 2: A review in weapons
Speak, inventory.
New PBS Game/Show asks if Dark Souls is the best hope for videogame narratives
A quick googling of Dark Souls’ story will open a rabbit hole into the churning gut of lore. From the true identity of Sen, who we know of only through a lone kanji character on the side of a deathtrap, to the exodus of the otherworldly mushroom people, everything is laid bare. This exegesis result
Dark Souls 2 producer says combat is considerably less "gamey." Cause to worry?
Dark Souls 2 is less than a week away; that is if you’re as excited as I am and are counting down by the hour. One detail worth noting is that, according to an interview with producer Takeshi Miyazoe, the combat feels less “gamey,” and he goes on to say that they’ve been tweaking the feel due to cha
Is this the first glimpse of Dark Souls 2’s world map?
I believe it is. You can scope it on a dry erase board at From Software’s studio at the 4:23 mark of the mini-documentary Namco Bandai released yesterday. It’s hard to make out much—some castle ruins scribbled chaotically in red and blue marker, possibly a shrine with a Japanese symbol I can’t read
How do you make an RPG after Dark Souls?
In the wake of the Souls games, designers rethink a genre.
Dark Souls 2 will be a heartwarming tale of empowerment, apparently
The Dark Souls series has a reputation of being big, hard, grueling games, but the raspy, warm voiceover in this new trailer for Dark Souls 2 wants to assure you that it’ll be OK. The tone is inspirational in a “these teams made it to the championship game” sort of way, and motivational in an “enlis