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Elden Ring review: Come see the softer side of punishing difficulty

Enlarge / OK, a little to your right. Little more… there. Hold it. OK, say “cheese.” I’ve never been able to get very deep into Demon’s Souls or any of the thematically similar follow-ups developer From Software has become known for in recent years. The last time I seriously tried, delving into Dark Souls II […]

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Namco Bandai promises Elden Ring is secure following Dark Souls exploit

Enlarge / In Elden Ring , you get a horse. (credit: Bandai Namco) Last month, publisher Namco Bandai took down its online player-versus-player servers for all PC Dark Souls games after players found a serious vulnerability that allowed for remote execution of malicious code|code calculatordecoder} on an opponent’s computer. While a Reddit user who publicly […]

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Dark Souls servers taken down following discovery of critical vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: The_Grim_Sleeper) Bandai Namco, publisher of the Dark Souls role-playing game series, has taken down its player-versus-player servers while it investigates reports of a serious vulnerability that allows players to execute malicious code on the PCs of fellow players. Word of the critical remote-code-execution flaw emerged over the weekend in Reddit threads here and […]