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Explore ELDEN RING with new narrated preview video and pre-order now.

[h2]Experience a first-look at narrated ELDEN RING gameplay giving players a deep-dive into the following areas of the game:[/h2]

Vast world design – the meticulously designed ”Lands Between” brings unprecedented immersion to FromSoftware’s largest game to date. Secrets hide around every corner of this immense world encouraging exploration for those who dare venture off the beaten path.
Legacy Dungeons – Large multi-level dungeons evoking classic FromSoftware level design are integrated into the overworld.
Traversal – Ride like the wind across The Lands Between on your Spectral Steed, and even engage in combat while on horseback.
Combat – Players can engage with a variety of basic or advanced combat options across a number of weapon types and magical disciplines.
Multiplayer – Team up with friends and help other Tarnished take down powerful foes with co-op multiplayer.

[h2]Pre-order ELDEN RING today to gain access to following items:[/h2]

Digital Adventure Guide, containing useful information to help players as they enter The Lands Between.
Bonus Gesture ‘The Ring’ – Receive a gesture at the start of the game. *Gesture can also be obtained in-game.

Adventure and danger await any Tarnished daring enough to enter The Lands Between and attempt to claim themselves The Elden Lord starting on February 25, 2022.

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The Last Oricru is an ARPG with Dark Souls-like boss fights and giant rat people

Koch Media's brand-new publishing label Prime Matter and developer GoldKnights have just unveiled a new third-person action-RPG on the way next year at tonight's Summer Game Fest extravaganza. The game will be a medieval-sci-fi mashup that looks set to appeal to Dark Souls and rat games fans alike.

The Last Oricru is, like any great RPG game, about choices and consequences at its core. Set in a fantasy medieval realm, the game sees the player character awaken from a kind of cryogenic sleep to find themselves in a strange world full of tough, unforgiving, and skill-based combat - both in the form of duels and mass brawls against groups of NPCs. It has six skill trees which you invest in by collecting essences from fallen foes, and along the way you'll be making key decisions that affect the outcome of your tale. You can try to befriend them all in your playthrough - which probably won't work out so well, GoldKnights says - or you can make enemies with all, which could very well be possible. And tricky. Gulp.

From the gameplay revealed, it looks like it's got something Dark Souls-esque about its combat and tone in some ways, although it's also got a distinctly sci-fi spin to it, too. It also has giant rat people, with giant rat tails and ears. You heard it here first, people.

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The best doors in PC gaming

In the real world, doors are rarely a remarkable thing. Most of them are downright confusing—do you push? Do you pull?—and these days the last thing I want to do is touch a handle that's been fondled by hundreds of germ-ridden hands. At worst, doors are an annoying obstacle and, at best, a two-inch protective barrier between you and the outside world. But in videogames, doors are magical...
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FromSoftware's Neverending Story, and other dream '80s games

The announcement of an Indiana Jones game in development from Nazi-whooping enthusiasts Machine Games, plus several new Star Wars games from EA and Ubisoft is pretty darn exciting. However, there's a lot more to the '80s than Harrison Ford-fronted action movies.

While we've already seen some of the biggest films of the leg warmer decade adapted into games, they're often pretty poor, and there's still a huge catalogue of '80s movies that haven't had their most sincere and heartwarming moments gutted and turned into game mechanics and progression loops.

But for the game to come close to matching the acclaim and cult appeal of its filmic counterpart, it's got to be developed by the right studio. The Thing, Ghostbusters, and Friday the 13th all made a splash, but quickly disappeared from memory. All of this got us thinking: what if we devised a list of the best '80s films to turn into games, as well as the studios we want in charge of our definitely sensible adaptations.

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