What sort of monster plays Dark Souls on the train?
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming…
Getting
back into Dark Souls is just like riding a bike
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and…
Android panic in Detroit: 8 new games to play in May, plus a bunch of old ones
With new games of all sizes filling real and digital shelves every week, it can be near impossible for anyone to keep…
Let's dive into Dark Souls' Lordran, one of the best worlds in gaming
The Dark Souls trilogy is one of the most celebrated in video games, thanks in no small part to the enveloping feel of…
Grimes says she's putting out a new album this year
Claire Boucher has said she thinks of Grimes as a character, one that’s grown immeasurably across her itchy early EPs,…
Dark Souls, Donkey Kong, and all the new Switch games Nintendo announced today
Nintendo fans spent this week in a tizzy as rumors of a Nintendo Direct newscast announcing an updated slate of 2018…
What pop culture did you eventually come around on?
This week’s question comes from reader Mathew Timms:
What pop culture you love is most difficult to explain?
This week’s question is from reader Chris Ilcin:
The many ways we use video games as therapy
In this week’s What Are You Playing This Weekend? thread, Karlos gave an update on his progress through Final Fantasy…
How Ghosts ’N Goblins helped video games find comedy in failure
Failure is comedy’s natural ecosystem. There’s a primordial delight in watching something, and especially someone, fall…
Is The Ringed City a fitting farewell to Dark Souls?
This week, William Hughes dug into The Ringed City, the last bit of downloadable content for Dark Souls III, which…
The Ringed City is Dark Souls at its most hollow
“Hollowing” is an important concept in the Dark Souls games, a wasting curse that feeds on memories, devours minds, and…
Walk, don’t run: When moving slowly makes games better
I first became aware of my little quirk during one of Commander Shepard’s early visits to the Citadel, the…
What game can you only enjoy when cheating?
This installment’s question comes from longtime commenter Unexpected Dave: What game can you only enjoy when cheating?
What’s the level you hate in a game you love?
This installment’s question comes from A.V. Club contributor Zack Handlen:
Is a world as crummy as Dark Souls’ really worth saving?
In my review of Dark Souls III, I grappled with the series’ obsession with cycles. It’s a theme that makes for…
Familiarity breeds disappointment and delight in Dark Souls III
At the heart of Dark Souls’ murky mythology is an infatuation with cycles. Its is a world that is cursed to repeat…
Maybe this Ken Burns spoof can teach us what the hell Dark Souls was about
To promote the release of Dark Souls III, the game’s official Tumblr launched a contest that challenged fans to create…
Grimes’ new video lures in the nerds, then forces them to dance
Four months after releasing the pop explosion of Art Angels—our fourth favorite album of 2015—onto the world, Canadian…
It was inevitable: Twitch is now trying to play Dark Souls
As Twitch, the internet’s foremost home for video game livestreams, continues to grow and evolve, at least one…