dark souls

Lies of P, an action-RPG developed by Neowiz Games and Round8 Studio, has made waves in the gaming industry for its Soulslike gameplay and intriguing narrative. Drawing inspiration from the works of FromSoftware, particularly Bloodborne,…

A headless corpse is awakened in the depths of an island dungeon. With a collection of green, gooey cells for a head the Prisoner must fight their way out of the dungeon, find out what went so wrong on the island and battle towards High…

A broken warrior trapped in a deep pit, the key to his salvation dropped from above by a mysterious figure in the night. You’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the intro to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the latest game from the Dark…

Art is in constant motion, it has to be otherwise it stagnates. Games kept moving forward this decade despite the efforts of some of the most powerful companies and people in the industry. For every rote shooter there was a Spec Ops: The…

The easiest thing to do this decade when writing about video games was to compare something to Dark Souls. From Crash Bandicoot to Cuphead to Assassin's Creed to Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Hidetaka Miyazaki's now legendary creation became…

We burn holy candles against profane darkness. We erect towering steeples on the graves of old Gods. We chant from sacred scriptures to banish unholy fears and temptations. But what if our faith itself is not enough? What if the…

While I personally have become very jaded, as many people have, over the pomp and empty ceremony of E3, the reveal of a third installment in the incredibly famous and massively popular Baldur's Gate RPG series certainly caught my attention.…

In-game achievements have become increasingly popular over the past few years. These days, it’s almost impossible to find a PlayStation or Xbox game that doesn’t feature a few dozen, at least. However, that doesn’t mean that gamers are…

"Punishment is it's own reward," I think to myself as Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa spears me into the frozen ground for the tenth time in an hour. I'm no masochist but Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is probably the closest I'll ever come to enjoying…

Does this list really need to exist? Probably not. Is ranking the Soulsborne - a portmanteau of the Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne games - arbitrary and unnecessary? Almost certainly. Am I going to do it anyway? Is a bear…