The co-creator of Dark Souls’ most ambitious mod resurfaces to inform me that Blighttown, source of my nightmares, was cobbled together with ’10 bits of wood’

If you’ve played Dark Souls, chances are you remember Blighttown—and none too fondly. Rickety, thin platforms occupied by scab-coated poison dart shooters. Precarious walks above a fatal drop into the accursed toxic swamp below. And, lest we forget, the deadliest enemy of all: The framerate absolutely tanking on the Xbox 360. You remake-players on those…

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How to get an Aqua Sac in Monster Hunter Wilds

Grabbing an Aqua Sac in Monster Hunter Wilds is important early on if you want to craft a water element weapon from the Balahara tree. Since you’ll find yourself in the fiery Oilwell Basin before too long, there’s no harm in acquiring a weapon that deals water damage for a little extra effectiveness against those…

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I became a domestic terrorist to steal a lightbulb in the best immersive sim I’ve played this Steam Next Fest—and it isn’t even a Next Fest demo

Looking back, we’ll call this period a renaissance for games that are kind of a pain in the ass. Stalker 2, Kingdom Come, Atomfall on the horizon—the gaming public of 2025 wants nothing more than to die face-down in the mud, victims to clockworld worlds that have their own rules and obey them unsparingly. I…

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‘It runs awful. It looks awful’: Monster Hunter Wilds performance issues put a dampener on its record-breaking concurrents as it settles into an early Mixed rating on Steam

I’m now over 100 hours into Monster Hunter Wilds, yet between a respectable rig and a CPU upgrade a few hours into playing, I gotta say: The game runs kinda bum. That seems to be the most commonly shared sentiment among the game’s negative Steam reviews right now too, with the first few hours of…

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