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If you’re a fan of older retro titles, then a new Dark Souls mod has got you covered. Pixel Souls: Demastered, created for Dark Souls Remastered, is available on Nexus Mods, and replaces all textures with pixel art based on the original textures from the game. It also decreases the quality of in-game models and replaces the music and sound effects in the title. As for how the mod was made, creator ‘thegreatgramcracker’ said: “The pixel art textures were created using my own custom image processing algorithm written in…

Towards the end of This Plague of Souls, a familiar sound calls out to its protagonist, Nealon. The world is changing: some great alteration seems about to unfold. Nealon gazes at a television, waiting for information. “The signature tune for the news bulletin calls out. A brass fanfare over an electronic jitter snags beneath the peal of the angelus bell.” So the close of this haunting tale calls back to the opening of Solar Bones, McCormack’s previous book, in which the Angelus is ringing out on All Souls’ Day: “the bell…

San Diego’s Thee Sacred Souls have had a whirlwind last couple of years, going from cutting demos and playing lowkey gigs to signing to Daptone, who released their eponymous album in 2022. It also included hitting the road for a full year, which was both hard and also thrilling, the trio tells Rolling Stone’s On the Radar. They went “from playing shows in backyards and living rooms and alleys” to now having big crowds on the road, bassist Sal Samano says. “It’s a crazy experience, that many people just singing,…

Despite being a PS5 launch title, Demon's Souls still often hovers around its original list price of $70. But thanks to Prime Day 2023, you can get Demon's Souls for only $30 at Amazon.For those looking to experience the full range of Soulsborne games, Demon's Souls is a remake of the very first Souls game.In GameSpot's Demon's Souls review, critic Tamoor Hussain praised the game for its faithful adaptation of a classic game and technical prowess. "There's much to praise about the remake of Demon's Souls.…

This is the Dark Souls of Darkslides A long time ago, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance featured a minigame where we could use the Big Shell as a skate park. Yes, you weren’t dreaming that up. It was glorious, but we would rarely see similar fever dreams like that again — up until very recently. A gameplay clip titled Dark Souls Pro Skater has emerged online, and it’s exactly what you’d expect. Naturally, people are raving over how rad it looks. Mfs playing Dark Souls Pro Skater?? pic.twitter.com/W9fxXrCan2 — Plathanos 🐝 🇩🇴…

The 2023 Steam Summer Sale is now live, bringing new and returning discounts on PC games. The event is active for two weeks, running until July 13, 10:30pm IST, with a larger pool of discounted games than March's sale event, going up to an 85 percent price hack. Bandai Namco is finally offering a discount on the Dark Souls trilogy, more than a year since it stalled price cuts on it, due to a crucial security vulnerability discovered in January 2022. However, the price reduction isn't as steep as it used to be, with Dark…

The Souls series didn’t invent difficult bosses Many complain about the Souls series being the hardest games of all time, and most of that implied difficulty comes from its boss battles. But obviously, this series didn’t really invent the concept of impossible bosses. In fact, one thing the series deserves a lot of praise for is for coming up with bosses that put up a tough challenge, but a fair one. Below is a list of some in-game bosses that are so unfair that they make most of the Dark Souls roster feel like a walk…

The most unintentionally fun challenges in the Souls series With the original Demon’s Souls, FromSoftware reinvigorated the notion that good boss battles elevate games as a whole. They haven’t, however, always perfectly nailed every single boss encounter they designed for the Souls series, so let’s talk about the most interestingly dumb ones. Screenshot By Destructoid Mergo’s Wet Nurse (Bloodborne) Bloodborne features some of the best boss battles in the entire series. Sadly, it also hosts one of its weakest. Mergo’s…

Sony is holding a massive PlayStation Showcase event later this week, leading to speculation that it could reveal the June 2023 PS Plus games early. If Sony follows tradition, then the June 2023 PlayStation Plus games will be announced on May 31. However, Sony has used previous State of Play events to unveil PS Plus games ahead of schedule, so subscribers might want to check out this Wednesday's hour-long presentation to find out more. As we count down to the big event, Express Online is predicting the free PS4 and PS5…

It is the custom now for everyone in the film business to describe film-makers as “storytellers”. But even leaving aside the fact that so many film-makers are not very good at the old-fashioned business of storytelling, the fact is that cinema does not have to be about story, however uncommercial an idea that seems.The Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso is a case in point: his work is challenging and opaque and taken an uncompromisingly andante pace and yes, it is probably destined to be shown at festivals. But it is…