Elden

The Lands Between has just received another update. The 1.10 patch for Elden Ring is now live for all platforms, and it primarily brings changes to PvP, but it does also affect other areas of the game. Changes include adjustments to poise, increased damage on specific attacks, and bug fixes.Now whenever you're in a PvP match, poise damage will be increased for all weapons, as well as some spells and incantations. Poise will also increase when you're attacking someone with skills, spells, incantations, or…

It’s been a year since Game of the Year winner Elden Ring first lit our tarnished souls on fire, and FromSoftware looks determined to keep kindling that flame. Players can download the game’s 1.10 patch today, which brings a few key balance changes to The Lands Between. As far as overall balance goes, we have a few buffs to critical hits (i.e. what happens when you backstab). Not only are these moves wholesale stronger, but they now inflict greater poise damage as well. We also have “decreased recovery time after a…

Guild Wars 2‘s narrative team took a leaf out of Elden Ring‘s book with the massively multiplayer online role-playing game’s upcoming expansion, Secrets of the Obscure. In an interview with TRG, Guild Wars 2 narrative director Bobby Stein and narrative lead Indigo Boock spoke on the significance of the conclusion of the Dragon Cycle storyline. “This is kind of a metaphor for us as a studio,” explained Boock. “We also get to figure out what our footing is and who we are in a post-dragons world.” When it came to…

Praise the plush From Software knows what they’re doing at this point when it comes to flashy character designs. They’ve seen the memes, the fanart, and the fanfare from all sorts of creations; with the trend arguably popping off with Solaire of Astora, aka the “Praise the Sun Guy.” Well, Elden Ring added a ton of characters to the pile, including the Turtle Pope. Yep, toy and statue purveyor Youtooz has an officially licensed plushy on the way of a fan-favorite NPC. Youtooz notes that this particular release is 9…

Malenia, Blade of Miquella, is one of the most formidable bosses in all of FromSoftware‘s games — let alone Elden Ring — but she has just been beaten by a goldfish. Twitch streamer and YouTuber PointCrow has spent some time training their goldfish to play Elden Ring. Explaining to their audience, PointCrow said that the tank that Tortellini the goldfish is swimming inside is split into a grid, and each cell corresponds to a certain command. As Tortellini enters different cells, a motion-tracking program relays this to…

The various Souls and Souls-adjacent games that FromSoftware has developed ever since Demon’s Souls have all introduced or iterated on new features that few, if any, other games ever attempted. We’re talking about more than just difficulty, too. Things like how the games handle death, leveling up, currency, and story were all fresh takes in the industry. Perhaps the most ambitious — and at times clunky — innovation came in how the games handled multiplayer as a component. With Elden Ring being the latest in its…

Move over E3, because the Summer Game Fest is back for another year of game announcements, gameplay reveals, and updates. The Summer Game Fest takes place at 8pm BST UK time on the evening of June 8. The show is expected to run for a couple of hours, meaning it will finish around 10pm BST. If you want to watch the action unfold live, simply click play on the YouTube embed below. The pre-show begins at 7.30pm. Express Online will also keep this page updated with all the announcements, so keep checking back for more…

Elden Ring is the game that just keeps on winning. A year after its release, it won the 2023 Nebula Award for best writing in a video game.The award went to both Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R.R. Martin, both of whom had played a major part in the game's writing and narrative. This isn't the first time Martin has won a Nebula Award, but this is the first time Miyazaki has been nominated for one. Martin has been nominated 13 times throughout his career and has won three awards. In 1979, he earned a Nebula…

By all accounts, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a fantastic sequel. Digital Trends’ review highlights how adding sky islands, a massive cavern below Hyrule, and creation abilities give players tools to create their own puzzle solutions and blow the game open. It doubles down on all of Breath of the Wild’s strengths but builds upon them in innovative ways that make this sequel feel truly different from its predecessor. If, or when, Elden Ring gets a follow-up, I hope its sequel does the same. While not…

In little more than a year, Elden Ring has sold approximately 20.5 million copies. That’s according to an investor report spotted by a (via ). “Repeat sales of existing titles such as Elden Ring were strong, especially overseas, worldwide sales reaching 20.5 million,” Bandai Namco writes in the document. The publisher adds that it expects “a pullback” in repeat sales of the game. However, if Elden Ring can sell a few million more copies, it will land among the , a list that includes titles like  and . The milestone…