Elden Ring new game plus uses the same basic setup as the Dark Souls series to let players beat the game multiple times with one character. “After clearing the game the first time, you can carry across your character data and play the game again, against powered-up enemies,” producer Yasuhiro …
Read More »Dark Souls PC PvP servers shut following security issue
The PvP servers for Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls 3 have been temporarily turned off following fears of a security issue that could leave some players’ PCs open to hacking. While neither FromSoftware nor Bandai Namco has formally detailed what’s happened, rumors across both the Dark …
Read More »Sol Cresta will finally release next month
Sol Cresta has a new release date: February 22, 2022. The game was initially due to release last month, December 2020, but was unfortunately delayed with no revised launch window given. Lucky for us, a livestream broadcast over the weekend revealed the new release plans, confirming the shooter will retail …
Read More »Fortnite welcomes its next League of Legends character, Arcanes Vi
Another character from Riot Games’ animated series, Arcane, is set to join Fortnite – and it’s her sister Vi. This isn’t the first time a familiar face from League of Legends’ Arcane Netflix (opens in new tab) animated series has popped up in Fortnite, of course. Back in November, Fortnite …
Read More »How to summon Moder in Valheim and defeat him
Meet the Valheim Moder boss, the icy mountain dragon and fourth boss in Valheim. If you manage to find the Dragon Eggs, you can summon Moder and conquer her Biome, the Mountains. Don’t underestimate that first part; finding Moder’s summoning materials involves a lot of climbing and wolf-fighting. Here’s everything …
Read More »Belfast review: “Kenneth Branaghs nostalgic autobiographical tale”
We open in August 1969, as Molotov cocktails ignite a street of terraced houses in the titular city. It is a largely Protestant district, dotted with Catholic families, and until now these neighbors have lived in harmony. Not any more – Unionist hardmen are torching the Catholics out of their …
Read More »Why you should play Genshin Impact in 2022
Back in September 2021, I told everyone and their dog to try Genshin Impact on the grounds that there’s a good reason I’ve played it literally every single day for *checks notes* more than half a pandemic. To the surprise of no one, I still eagerly log into Genshin daily, …
Read More »Nightmare Alley review: “Guillermo del Toro’s nightmares remain worlds apart from the pack”
Few filmmakers move between worlds with the fluent cogency of Guillermo del Toro. From arthouse to Hollywood, fairytale land to vicious wartime reality, his films trace lines of blood and feeling between territories with intuitive expressive force. Hence, perhaps, his long-nurtured interest in William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, first brilliantly …
Read More »The original Assassins Creed ending saw Desmond Miles escape Earth in “a freaking spaceship”
The Assassin’s Creed series was originally planned to end with protagonist Desmond Miles going to space to start a new civilization. As outlined by Eurogamer (opens in new tab), digital media culture student Lars de Wildt interviewed a number of Ubisoft developers in 2019 for their article ‘Marketable religion: How …
Read More »How to get into Uncharted The Lost Legacys White Monkey Temple
The Uncharted The Lost Legacy White Monkey Temple is a particularly special area in the Western Ghats hubworld, a focal point for a series of subquests and secret treasures that makes it very important to find for anybody playing through Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. The White Monkey Temple is essential …
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