Enlarge / Giddy up, little insectoid friend. We have fightin’ (and learnin’) to do. (credit: Team Cherry) The video game Hollow Knight may look like it has familiar trappings: Ssde-scrolling combat; deadly, hand-animated insects; a massive, explore-and-return world. Another Metroidvania, right? I made a similar assumption before diving into the 2017 game, which has since […]
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Action-Roguelite ‘Wayward Souls’ Lets You Share Your Gravestone With Friends
Wayward Souls is an action RPG with a story to tell – or rather one different story for each of its seven playable characters. Driven towards the dungeon delving life out of different motivations, you start your adventure in a dark, dank cellar and make your way upwards, hacking and slashing and collecting coins. And […]
‘The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls’ Is Injecting A Lot Of Fun Into Kickstarting A Game
Adopting a cat. Sending in fan art. Getting your parents to play The Binding of Isaac. Taking pictures in the bathroom. Stretch goals where you can put your name on a tombstone on Edmund McMillen’s lawn. Drawing pictures of the developer nude. The Kickstarter for The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, a card game built […]
Living in ‘Demon’s Souls’ as the Servers Shut Down
A dispatch from the final hours that the game’s online features were available. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a971efa8e71085604e0264d/master/pass/DemonsSoulsNoEdge.jpg
Crossing Souls review — a full course of nostalgia, with a small side of story
REVIEW: Crossing Souls is an action role-playing game that’s in love with the ’80s. It’s strewn with references to The Goonies and Back to the Future, and its cutscenes and soundtrack do an excellent job at surfing the nostalgia wave. Indie developer Fourattic raised funds for the game on Kickstarter in 2014. Four years later and with […]
Frog Souls Is A Game Of Minimalist Swamp Duels
A frog is given a sword and a mission deep within a swamp in another dimension. Tasked with using its new blade to defeat the other creatures of these shadowy lands, players will need to help the frog overcome four masters in one-on-one duels in Frog Souls. Frog Souls has players sharing their floating lily […]
PS Plus November 2017 predictions: Mass Effect, Beyond Two Souls and other PS4 free games
PlayStation Plus subscribers are waiting for the November 2017 free games to be announced by Sony. The PS Plus November 2017 free games lineup will be announced between 4-5pm later today (November 1). The freebies will be available to download from Tuesday, November 7. As subscribers wait for official confirmation from Sony, Reddit users have […]
“Our Souls Are Stricken With Grief”
The brother of the Las Vegas gunman said he was an intelligent, wealthy man who took care of the people around him. “Steve took care of the people he loved; he helped me and my family become wealthy,” Eric Paddock told reporters outside of his home Tuesday. “He’s the reason I was able to retire […]
“Prepare to die” in Dark Souls: The Board Game
Enlarge (credit: Steamforged) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. It’s been surpassed now, but, for a while last year, Dark Souls had the honor of being the most lavishly funded board game ever on Kickstarter. The […]
Meet the Noble Souls Saving the Oysters. Yes, the Oysters
What do you do when the oysters vanish? Grow a couple tons and dump them back into the bay of course. https://media.wired.com/photos/5984ab91ca110e53e806cefb/master/pass/klementovich-16.jpg Feed: All Latest