Hollow Knight beats Metroid, Dark Souls at their own brutal game

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]