Elden Ring doesn’t look that hard in this sub-nine-minute speedrun… In the nearly two months since Elden Ring was released, the average player has reportedly needed dozens of hours to finish the “main story” portion of the game. Given that, the fact that the speedrunning community can now demonstrate a complete start-to-finish Elden Ring run […]
Enlarge / The lord of all he surveys… in terms of sales, that is. (credit: FromSoftware) If you’ve even talked to someone who plays a lot of video games lately, you shouldn’t be surprised that Elden Ring—with its combination of open-world exploration and punishing Souls-like difficulty—is a huge hit. Still, we were taken aback when […]
Enlarge / Piece of cake. (credit: FromSoftware) Every time FromSoftware releases a new title, the entire gaming community seems to get wrapped up in the same tired debates about game difficulty. One side complains that games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne are just too hard for their own good and that only masochists enjoy games […]
Enlarge / Artistic representation of having Elden Ring running surprisingly smoothly on Steam Deck. (credit: Valve / From Software / Sam Machkovech) While Elden Ring‘s recent launch has been a massive critical and commercial success, it continues developer From Software’s streak of leaving players in a technical lurch. Even on the newest Xbox and PlayStation […]
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 […]