As a connoisseur of both traditional soulslikes and parry-based ones, I have watched, mournfully, as my fellow FromSoftware enjoyers hit Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—a game with some of FromSoftware’s best boss battles ever, no competition—and bounced off it like a rubber blade. I’ve often gone on record to defend parrying on this site, despite the…

Sandfall Interactive, developer of this year’s megahit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, is a famously small developer. So small, in fact, that there was a whole discourse earlier this year about how miniscule the studio is. That lasted right up until another discourse (possibly part of the same discourse) that Sandfall Interactive is actually not that…

If there’s one good thing to come out of this year, it’s the huge influx of horse-brained sickos (hello) who are now well and truly engrossed in the welfare of retired racehorses thanks to gacha game and anime series Umamusume. Since Pretty Derby ended its four-year Japan-exclusive stint earlier this year, stables and owners of…

Battlefield 6 fans have spotted what they believe to AI-generated art in a winter-themed cosmetics pack for the hugely successful multiplayer shooter. In a Reddit post titled “Remove this AI shit from the store”, user Willcario uploaded an image of a player card sticker named “Winter Warning”, which comes as part of Battlefield 6’s Windchill…