Tag Archives: Dark Souls

Games like Dark Souls understand their source material. They blend hard-as-nails but oh-so-rewarding combat with ambiguous narrative, wherein nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. Demon’s Souls may have preceded its older, darker cousin, but it was Dark Souls that would spawn an entire genre of …

Dark Souls has been named the Ultimate Game of All Time by the Golden Joystick Award voting public.  At the culmination of this year’s Golden Joystick Awards, it was revealed that From Software’s legendary odyssey into the depths of Lordran has earned the title of Ultimate Game of All Time. …

Souls franchise director Hidetaka Miyazaki hopped on a rare interview circuit after the latest Elden Ring reveal, and in the process he commented on the series’ fixation on swamp levels. “I don’t know!” he said in an interview with Russian outlet Igromania (opens in new tab). “Something makes me put …

A Kickstarter project (opens in new tab) to create a deluxe hardcover edition of Dark Souls book ‘You Died: The Dark Souls Companion’ has launched. The original paperback version was written by Keza MacDonald and Jason Killingsworth, and was first published back in April 2016. Focusing on examining the game’s …

In games, nothing can be said to be certain except death and well, mostly that. Death as a consequence of failure has been a part of games since the days of Spacewar!, and what came after has stayed pretty much the same: a Game Over screen, a Continue? prompt (maybe …

Let the battle begin! Boss battles are usually lame. After a long journey through a swamp or over a mountain, you have to stand face to face with the bastard who put you through that obstacle course to finally bring closure to your adventure. Few boss fights follow after Metal …

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