dark souls

  • Dark Souls’ Awful Basilisks Taught Me How To Play The Game

    Dark Souls’ Awful Basilisks Taught Me How To Play The Game

    It’s the colour of a shrunken oily olive. Its true eyes are pinpricks of light situated on either side of its threateningly wide mouth, and its false eyes wobble like (boobs?) batteries rolling around a broken flashlight on top of its scaly head. It is FromSoftware’s loathed but consistent creature the burping basilisk, which you…


  • Elden Ring: The Kotaku Australia Review

    Elden Ring: The Kotaku Australia Review

    You’re allowed to break the rules of game design if you give people something they didn’t know they wanted. It’s the unwritten rule: when you have something truly unique and desirable, you get to throw out the rulebook. Counter-Strike did this before the turn of the millennium. In a time of rocket jumps and instant…