This free, fan-made Dark Souls tabletop-RPG puts you in the shoes of those awful NPCs who speak vaguely and end sentences with condescending refrains like “heh, heh, heh,” or “…mm.” “Fucked Up Little Man,” a roleplaying game by Grant Howitt, comes with just one downloadable page for instructions on setting …
Read More »Dark Souls lore book looks like a collectors dream
Dark Souls is getting one hell of a fancy lore compendium next year. Earlier this week, Tune and Fairweather (opens in new tab) listed the Abyssal Archive for release early next year in 2023. The package boasts two complete volumes compiling all the in-game lore from the original Dark Souls, …
Read More »These board game deals cut prices on some of the best video game crossovers
There’s never a bad time to consider a board game deal – the market is a stacked one, so there are always price cuts to be had. However, these early Prime Day board game deals on some specific games are worthy of your attention, post haste! The deals we’ve picked …
Read More »The 10 best FromSoftware games of all-time
The best FromSoftware games are often characterized by their challenging combat. Over the last decade or so, the Japanese developer has birthed some of the most iconic fantasy action-role-playing games – to the point where an entire subgenre of games now exists to replicate, mirror and pay homage to the …
Read More »Dark Souls Remastered Covenant guide: Whats the best Covenant in Dark Souls Remastered?
Dark Souls Covenants are special organisations and religions that players can sign up for, each one with their own advantage and requirements in Dark Souls Remastered – usually impacting PvP combat in some way. And now Remastered allows you to swap Covenants at bonfires, giving you more flexibility in what …
Read More »Dark Souls tabletop RPG players say the rulebook is a hot mess
The 500-page rulebook for Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game is full of problems big and small, according to a bunch of people who have had the chance to check it out ahead of release. As Dicebreaker (opens in new tab) first reported (thanks, Polygon (opens in new tab)), Dark Souls: …
Read More »10 games like Dark Souls so you can prove your might
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 …
Read More »The Dark Souls Nightfall demo is the perfect stopgap while waiting for Elden Ring
Dark Souls: Nightfall is Dark Souls but not as you know it. For a start, the total conversion mod’s new two hour-long demo (opens in new tab) kicks off in Demon Ruins, not Undead Asylum. It begins deep within the bowels of the crumbling runic complex, not as you emerge …
Read More »A Dark Souls Metaverse could become a reality thanks to Bandai Namcos vision of the future
Bandai Namco has revealed its plans for making an ‘IP Metaverse’ based on its own properties, which includes Dark Souls. According to VGC (opens in new tab) (via the company’s financial results (opens in new tab)) Bandai Namco is planning to make its own ‘Metaverse’ – a virtual or augmented …
Read More »These are the best Souls bosses according to PlayStation devs from Naughty Dog to Sony Santa Monica
Ahead of Elden Ring’s launch this month, a bunch of PlayStation Studios devs from Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Bend Studio, and Sony Santa Monica have revealed their favorite bosses from the Dark Souls series. The devs’ responses were compiled into a list on the PlayStation Blog (opens in new tab). As …
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