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When Video Game Trolling Is A Good Thing

The timer ticks down toward zero. We tear across the Boneyard, one of Halo: Reach‘s best multiplayer maps, my good friend Rus driving with me sitting shotgun. I’m clutching the blue flag in hands that would be sweating if they were real. We shed our red teammates like skin; they race past us going the other direction on foot and in alien vehicles, crashing to pieces against the blue players that pursue us. They fall, re-spawn, hurtle past, and fall again. All the while the timer ticks down.


The Largest, Most Awesome Video Game Castles

Inspired mostly by Medieval architecture and the Middle Ages, fortified stone castles in video games are always among the most exciting locations. These bastions are the keepers of many secrets, hidden cellars and lost knowledge all awaiting the player to find them.


Now You Know Who To Blame For Your Dark Souls Deaths

In Dark Souls, death can be rough. Why not lighten the mood, then, with this mod for the PC version of the game, which takes the meme to its most brutal conclusion.


There Is A Man Dressed As Sonic In Dark Souls And He Is Terrifying

He haunts the Dark Souls universe like a ragged clown at a birthday party, or a drunk, stubbly Santa at Westfield. He is Sonic. He is the ‘gotta go fast’ Sonic. A bastardised, terrifying Sonic who will lure innocent combatants into a futile chase, before leading them into a bottomless chasm to die painful, brutal deaths.


Sony’s Yoshida Wants The PS4 To Focus On Games. More Importanly — He Loves Dark Souls

In an interview with Edge Online Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida said two things that completely endeared him to me forever. The first: Sony’s commitment to making the PS4 a games console. The second? A confession of love for Dark Souls.


They Bought Dead Island: Riptide But Got Dark Souls Instead

It’s like the universe was trying to tell them something. This week, some British gamers found that the retail Steam codes they redeemed for Dead Island: Riptide instead unlocked Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. The jokes really make themselves, don’t they?


The Journey To Kill Everyone In Dark Souls. Yes, Everyone.

Months before I had played Dark Souls, I came across a list of things that players should finish up at the end of their first playthrough: fight optional bosses, farm humanity, collect and upgrade weapons, kindle bonfires. Trade for useful items, level up covenants. Then, quite simply: kill everyone.


Dark Souls 2 On PC Won’t Be ‘Half-Assed’ Like The First Game

Dark Souls got a “half-assed” PC port, said the game’s director himself. He promises that Dark Souls 2 “will definitely put more priority on the PC.”


This Fake Dark Souls Anime Is Brutal

While totally not a real anime per se, this hand-drawn fan-made clip mashes Dark Souls with Neon Genesis Evangelion. The title is “Dark Souls Neon NEET-gelion”.


The Awesome Giant Monsters Of Japanese Video Games

Godzilla and his atomic breath are one of the most recognisable metaphors for the atomic bombings of WWII — and they’re also icons of Japanese pop culture. With a steady supply of Kaiju movies, giant monsters nestled themselves comfortably in video games, creating a huge library of monster mayhem-based titles. We have selected some of them, both niche and well-known, featuring battles with these towering beasts.


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