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Dark Souls 2

June 2024

  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

    ‘I have always felt the world was a harsh place’: Elden Ring’s Hidetaka Miyazaki on why he may never stop making games

    As Elden Ring’s much-anticipated final expansion is released, its designer gives a glimpse into how he crafts his harsh, beautiful, rewarding gameworlds

March 2022

  • ‘Find the weapons and armour that feel good for you’ … Elden Ring.

    A beginner’s guide to Elden Ring: what it is and why you should play it

    It is being hailed as one of the greatest games of all time, but if you don’t yet know your Margit from your Elden, here is a guide to get you roaming the Lands Between like a pro

February 2022

  • Sifu game still

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: why games don’t have to be hard to be good

    In this week’s newsletter: the deliberately tough Sifu is about to revive the never-ending discourse about how difficult games should be

November 2021

  • Elden Ring video game screenshot

    Elden Ring – Dark Souls’ creators and George RR Martin team up on an enticing fantasy

    Thrilling but not forbidding, Hidetaka Miyazaki’s forthcoming fantasy epic is Dark Souls meets Zelda: Breath of the Wild

March 2020

  • Smouldering revenge trauma in a beautiful landscape … Red Dead Redemption 2.

    Now's the time – 15 epic video games for the socially isolated

    From dark dungeons and the streets of Tokyo to enchanted forests and distant planets, here are the 100-hour games that you may finally have time to master

December 2018

  • Top titles … clockwise from top left, God of War, Florence, Iconoclasts, Red Dead Redemption, Pillars of Eternity

    The 20 best video games of 2018

    From outlaws in turn-of-the-century America to a young woman falling tenderly in love – and Norse gods going to war in spectacular style

August 2018

  • Déraciné (PSVR) artwork

    'I am drawing from different sources': Hidetaka Miyazaki on life after Dark Souls

    The game designer discusses swapping horror for a strange VR adventure game about fairies, inspired by Manga and Celtic folklore

June 2018

  • Dark Souls: Remastered.

    Dark Souls: Remastered review – dark fantasy RPG makes glorious return

    The action roleplaying game makes a masterful return to Lordran

April 2016

  • Dark Souls 3

    Games reviews roundup: Dark Souls 3; Star Fox 64

    Bandai’s fantasy franchise returns for a third satisfying helping of hack-and-slash heroics, while Star Fox 64 still puts up a good fight

August 2015

  • Dark-Souls-III Screenshots

    Dark Souls 3: with Miyazaki back the future looks magical

    Far more fluid than its predecessor, at first play it’s clear this game has definitely taken a few pointers from stablemate Bloodborne

May 2015

  • Peter Serafinowicz playing Dark Souls II

    Achievement unlocked: gaming with Peter Serafinowicz and Felix Martin

    When they’re not making music or appearing in Star Wars, Hot Chip’s Felix Martin and actor Peter Serafinowicz are big on consoles. Here’s what a lifetime squinting at a screen has taught them

April 2015

  • Dark Souls II, games

    Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin review – a director’s cut of the dark fantasy

    This drastically reworked version of the RPG elevates a great game to a higher level

March 2015

  • concept art for Yarnham, the inscrutable, archaic realm in which Bloodborne takes place.

    Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream. I wasn’t ambitious'

    He is a video games visionary, the creator of intricate gothic fantasies regarded by some as the best titles of the last 20 years. In a rare interview, Hidetaka Miyazaki explains how he rose from unwanted coder to company president

March 2014

  • Dark Souls II

    Dark Souls II review – 'last great game of the previous console generation'

    Step into the shoes of a zombie searching for a cure in a nail-bitingly tense survival sequel. By Jack Hackett

  • Dark Souls 2

    Dark Souls II – review

    You are going to die, of course, but the thrill of doing better will keep you sacrificing everything, writes Matt Kamen

  • Dark Souls 2

    Dark Souls 2 review – a brutal, mysterious, astonishing game

    Simon Parkin: An uncompromising sequel that may well offer a greater sense of discovery, victory and, at times, frustration than any video game yet made

February 2014

  • Dark Souls II

    Peter Serafinowicz on Dark Souls II: 'The best game ever' – video

    Actor and comedian Peter Serafinowicz discusses his role in what many regard as the hardest video game on the planet

April 2013

  • Dark Souls 2

    Games blog
    Dark Souls 2 – preview

    Hulking humanoid hybrids, chariots of fire and death round every corner – there are no easy confrontations in this game. By Nick Cowen

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