If you can’t beat ‘em, normalise ‘em Elden Ring’sShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC yet hovers atMixedin the blood-encrusted annals of the Steam user review consensus. As Nicwrote earlier in the week, a portion of the negative feedback is aimed at the expansion’s difficulty, which is certainly a Thing To Hear after years of being told by kindly gamers that I only hand out low review scores because I can’t press the buttons in the right order....

Goodbye pounds and pence The Steam Summer Sale is kicking off this week, say Valve, purveyors of fine games and thousands of crap ones too (don’t worry, we help you tell the difference). The sale begins on Thursday June 27th and runs until July 11th. That’s a full two weeks of sun and soulslikes, beach balls and beat ‘em ups, paddling pools and puzzle games. I don’t know any other objects associated with this mythological “summer” people talk about, I’m from Ireland....

Ahead of tomorrow’s juicier DLC reveal A corn dog is something I’ve never eaten, because they’re not really a thing in UK. I am morbidly curious about them, although I cannot ascertain their texture just by looking, which worries me. A Khorne dog, however, is a texturally simpler proposition. You can tell just by looking at today’s new legendary hero forstrategy gameTotal War Warhammer 3that he’d be quite difficult to chew, should you get to that point....

I won’t say who but it was Nic The co-operative clambering ofChained Togetheris easy to understand. It’s likeFall Guysin the fiery pits of hell, with a tower of fiendish platforming challenges. It brings to mind the mind-shattering failures ofGetting Over Itand a previousshort-livedclamber sim calledOnly Up. Also, you are chained to your teammates. Every time you fall in this fiery multiplayer de-motivator, you are taking your pals with you, usually right back to the start....

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Oh, cool, this again Even with the caveat of “I’m not holding my breath”, Garvin’s take is an altogether more hopeful one that that of fellow Bend alumni and Days Gone game director Jeff Ross, who in MaytweeXeda collage of popular PlayStation characters – sans his own post-apocalyptic motorcycling hero, Deacon St. John. “A lot of people still ask me if there will ever be a Days Gone sequel, so I submit this poster as evidence it will never happen”, Ross wrote, along with an apparent pop at Sony Interactive execs (including Hermen Hulst, co-CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment) for never being “fans” of the game....

You can give it a go from tomorrow in the Public Test Realm Roguelikes! They’re all the rage lately, whether it’s a pure run-based game likeHades 2, a devilish combination with something like the settlement-management ofCult of the Lambor the application of the genre’s live-die-live-again loop to add a new bit of spice to a familiar series like The Rogue Prince of Persia. Into that last category comes a new contender:Diablo 4, which will soon introduce a new wave-based roguelike mode in its next season....

How to complete the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave dungeon in Elden Ring Stuck inside the Elden Ring Fringefolk Hero’s Grave dungeon?Despite being one of the first dungeons you’ll come across in The Lands Between, the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave does not go easy on you: you must survive a poisonous lake, deadly chariots, a fire trap, spirit warriors, and many imp attacks - if you manage to break the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave seal, that is....

How to complete Sorceress Sellen’s questline in Elden Ring Need some help with the Elden Ring Sellen quest?Unfortunately, Sorceress Sellen’s questline is very long and often confusing. If you’re looking for Sellen’s location, the entrance to the Sellia Hideaway, or Primeval Sorcerer Azur’s hiding spot, we’ll gladly give you a hand. From the Waypoint Ruins Cellar to the ‘final choice’ at Raya Lucaria’s library, here’s a fullElden RingSellen quest walkthrough....

How to fight your way through Stormveil Castle and find Godrick the Grafted in Elden Ring Looking for an Elden Ring Stormveil Castle walkthrough?Stormveil Castle is an extremely dangerous stronghold, with many hidden enemies, confusing corridors, and unexpected shortcuts. It’s one of the first major castles you’ll come across during your Elden Ring playthrough. ThisElden RingStormveil Castle walkthrough will help you survive this intimidating stronghold and find the Stormveil Castle boss: Godrick the Grafted....

How to unlock the War-Dead Catacombs in Elden Ring and find every item Looking for an Elden Ring War-Dead Catacombs walkthrough?The War-Dead Catacombs is a devilishly well-hidden dungeon found in the northwestern corner of Caelid. Once you figure out how to unlock the War-Dead Catacombs, you’ll have to navigate its many corridors filled with warmongering spirits. ThisElden RingWar-Dead Catacombs walkthrough will help you find the dungeon entrance and survive the spirits' civil war....

Rome 2 programmer says “leaders seemed to resent critical feedback and treated it as unwelcome" A former developer at Total War studio Creative Assembly has writtena lengthy personal accountof his time at the studio, in which he details development troubles onstrategy gameTotal War: Rome 2andTotal War: Attila, and alleges that these issues were exacerbated by an inflexible and counterproductive leadership structure and “chronic mismanagement,” sometimes resulting in what he calls a “toxic work environment....

By all means share the love, Miyazaki-san From Software game difficulty chatis in full swingfollowing the release ofElden Ring’sShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC, but cannier Soulslikers such as myself andGR’s Hirun Cryer are already leaping and bounding ahead to the next Stage of Review Discourse: which From Software game is bestest? Here to settle the matter once and for all until the next time we post about it is company president Hidetaka Miyazaki....