Tag Archives: Elden Ring

The 40th Golden Joystick Awards winners have been announced, with Elden Ring coming out as the event's biggest winner. Besides Best Visual Design and Best Multiplayer Game, it also brought home the Ultimate Game of the Year and Critics' Choice awards. From Software also received the Studio of the Year …

Elden Ring quickly became by far FromSoftware’s biggest success following its release in February earlier this year – where the game managed to sell over 12 million copies within its first few weeks on the market. Unsurprisingly, the game is continuing to sell like hotcakes, with publisher Bandai Namco now …

Just as promised, the nominees for this year's Game Awards have been revealed today. Since God of War Ragnarok released on time, the game is eligible for awards in this year's show and sure enough, it is nominated for the coveted GOTY award. God of War Ragnarok was actually the …

One of the more exciting gaming events to happen during the latter half of the year is the annual Game Awards. Created and hosted by Geoff Keighley, the annual show has become known not only for its awards ceremony, but also its multitude of game announcements and ‘World Premieres’. Now, …

Late last year, From Software revealed that it was planning to bring ray-tracing features to Elden Ring, but they wouldn't be there at launch. We haven't had an update since then, but that finally changed this week. The latest Elden Ring patch includes new strings for ray-tracing support.  As spotted …

Many of FromSoftware’s previous titles have been translated into board game formats, with the likes of Dark Souls and Bloodborne both getting their own board games. As such, it is unsurprising to hear that Elden Ring – by far FromSoftware’s most successful game to date – will also be getting …

From Software has had an incredible run over the last decade, finding great success with the Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, and most recently, Elden Ring. From Software is already backed by Japanese media conglomerate, Kadokawa. but new investors are now being brought on board, including Sony and Tencent.  Sony and …

Throughout the year, Twitter keeps track of the video game discussions taking place on its platform. Last year, the social network announced that Genshin Impact was the most Tweeted about game for all of 2021. 6 months into 2022 and the free-to-play title continues its reign at the top. Taking …

Just last week, we learned that From Software already has a new game on the way, with the unannounced title entering ‘the final stages of development' just months after Elden Ring shipped. As it turns out, this isn't the only other project the studio is working on, as it has …

From Software has had a great year so far, having released Elden Ring to great critical acclaim and positive reception from fans. In fact, Elden Ring is likely on its way towards winning many GOTY awards at the end of the year. As it turns out though, From Software has …

The video games industry is an ever-evolving place, but one of its core truths is the fact that no matter how good a game is, it will likely be outsold by that year’s Call of Duty. This has been the case since the FPS hit its stride in the late …

Elden Ring launched in late February to huge success, becoming one of the highest rated games of all time according to critics while selling 12 million copies in the process. This helped rocket Elden Ring to the top of the sales charts. Finally, its reign has been ended by none …

Elden Ring has been out for a few weeks now and hackers have begun discovering various exploits in the game’s multiplayer system. Over the weekend, a concerning cheat began doing the rounds, allowing a PvP invader to force a player to become stuck in an infinite death loop. Fortunately, From …

Elden Ring has been out for a few weeks now and hackers have begun discovering various exploits in the game's multiplayer system. The latest exploit goes beyond going up against an overpowered player in PvP though, with reports of hackers forcing game crashes and corrupting save data.  A new hack …

Players have been running around Elden Ring for over a week at this point and sure enough, the game's secrets are beginning to come to light. Modder, Lance McDonald, has moved on from Bloodborne to Elden Ring in the past week, investigating out of bounds areas. During this exploration, a …

Like clockwork, the release of a brand new FromSoftware game has been met with complaints of the game’s difficulty. While the discussion surrounding this issue has persisted for years, Hidetaka Miyazai has now responded to these comments, claiming that developing difficult games is “not something we're willing to abandon at …

Elden Ring launched last week to rave reviews and is already looking like a GOTY contender despite its share of technical issues. Fans of the Souls games have flocked to the latest title in droves – we've already seen it smash records for From Software on platforms like Steam, and …

Does Elden Ring really perform that badly on PC? We investigate

In the wake of the glowing reviews by gaming critics (which saw FromSoftware’s Elden Ring being thrust to the second place podium of the highest rated games of all time list) its worldwide launch today is being met with just as much enthusiasm. Despite severe PC issues, Elden Ring has …

After glowing reviews from critics this week, many of us expected Elden Ring to be in solid shape once the game launched. Unfortunately today, many players, especially those on PC, found out that the game has some major performance issues. Now, publisher Bandai Namco has acknowledged those problems, promising that …

Elden Ring fans were excited to get hold of the game today following glowing reviews from press outlets earlier this week. Unfortunately, it looks like the game's technical problems are worse than we were led to believe leading up to release.  Elden Ring has launched to ‘mixed' overall reviews on …

This week, Elden Ring officially became one of the highest rated games of all time, with glowing reviews across the board. We know a lot of KitGuru readers are going to want to play this over the weekend - so we're giving away a free copy for PC! 

Elden Ring reviews officially went live yesterday and so far, it is looking like From Software has created a masterpiece. Currently, Elden Ring sits as the second highest rated game of all time on Open Critic, and is also tied for a top ten position on Metacritic.  From Software has …

With Elden Ring just over a week away, From Software has finally revealed the game's finalised PC system requirements. The minimum system requirements revealed last week were accurate, and now we have recommended PC system requirements to pair with it.  In an update to Elden Ring’s Steam Store page, the minimum …

Back in August, reports indicated that From Software's upcoming game, Elden Ring, would have pretty tame PC system requirements. At the time, the game was still six months away from release, so we warned that the requirements were likely to change and now this week, it appears the minimum system …

Two weeks ago, Bandai Namco and From Software were forced to take the multiplayer servers for the Dark Souls series offline for the PC platform. The lack of online functionality is a temporary measure, as a bug that could grant an attacker Remote Code Execution (RCE) privileges was discovered. Unfortunately, …

Konami’s Fox Engine was used to develop games such as Metal Gear Solid V, which ran at a silky smooth framerates all while being highly detailed and cinematic. The Lead Engineer of this engine has now been tasked with the development of a new engine for Bandai Namco. Bandai Namco …

From Software is gearing up to release one of the most anticipated games of the year in February, and it seems some of the development has been impacted by Bluepoint's 2020 remake for Demon's Souls. In particular, From Software felt some added pressure to polish up Elden Ring's graphics after …

Cyberpunk 2077 disappointed fans in many different ways when it was released late last year. From bugs and glitches, to missing features and broken promises, the open-world ‘RPG’ felt rather empty and lifeless in many ways. One of the primary contributors was the lack of police AI and car chases. …

Elden Ring is one of the most anticipated games of early 2022. After years of little to no information, Bandai Namco have finally started to give fans a more comprehensive look at the game. Ahead of its release on the 25th of February 2022, the publisher has released full spec …