I love the Arena. Almost every Armored Core game features an arena or at least a ranking system, and it's a chance to show off some of the best and most interesting pilots in the Armored Core…
August 23, 2023 | 11:30 EDT
Last year FromSoftware won a record shattering number of Game of the Year awards for Elden Ring, the game that brought the Dark Souls and Bloodborne design philosophy to the wildly popular open world…
August 1, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
So, Elden Ring is coming out, and as such you know everyone’s playing their old Soulsborne games. But what if you’ve Souls’d too much? To where Soulsing loses its soul? Well, my good friends, let me…
February 23, 2022 | 10:30 EST
Elden Ring isn't a far cry from what From Software fans are used to when it comes to the Soulsborne genre. Naturally, this is what fans expect, as these games have unambiguous DNA. Is a Soulsborne…
November 15, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Love it or loathe it (and there are plenty who do), Dark Souls is undeniably one of the most influential games of the last decade. Whether it's the "git gud" meme, the "X is the Dark Souls of Y"…
September 22, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
It’s hard to describe to those that don’t play the games, but there is a sense of gratification to overcoming the challenge in Dark Souls. This is something that developers have noticed in the years…
June 19, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Out of all the IPs that industry veteran Capcom boasts, Monster Hunter is still relatively new to its success in the West. Now one of the company’s top best-sellers, second to only Resident Evil, the…
April 2, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
It's been ten years since the release of Demon's Souls, the underrated first installment in the long-running Souls series by FromSoftware. Hidetaka Miyazaki's unsung masterpiece contains many…
March 4, 2019 | 01:00 EST
For many gamers, the Souls series needs no introduction. Since the release of Dark Souls for Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2011 (a PC release would follow in 2012), the series has garnered an intense cult…
February 5, 2019 | 02:00 EST
Alexander Pope once said that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Nowhere is this truer than the world of From Software's 2015 masterpiece Bloodborne. In the city of Yharnam, knowledge is at…
August 27, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Probably one of the most talked-about elements of From Software's flawed masterpiece Dark Souls is its boss encounters. The game is an intentional throwback to retro-style gaming, so bosses are…
May 28, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
While playing Dark Souls III for my Dark Souls III review, I've been reflecting on the series at large. I've spent hundreds of hours of my life with the Souls games, and I've visited quite a few…
April 21, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Through four games (five, if you count Bloodborne) in the Souls series, a few things have stayed consistent with Hidetaka Miyazaki's difficult action RPGs. From Demon's Souls to Dark Souls III, there…
April 14, 2016 | 11:00 EDT