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Shadow of the Erdtree has, as any good FromSoftware expansion should, a bunch of new weapons to do some murdering with—claws, censers, greatswords and, a personal favourite here at PC Gamer, fisticuffs that let you do cool kicks and flips. It's also recommended for higher level-characters, though, and we are but creatures of habit.
Elden Ring might have received a perfect score from Wccftech and many other outlets, ending up with tons of Game of the Year awards in 2022, but that doesn't mean it's the ideal fantasy RPG for creator Hidetaka Miyazaki. FromSoftware's president told PC Gamer that it's pretty close, but there's still room for improvement. He also wishes someone else would make it instead - that way, he could enjoy it as a player without knowing every single element in the game.
Mere days before the launch of the one and only Elden Ring expansion (Shadow of the Erdtree), PC Gamer cornered FromSoftware president and game director Hidetaka Miyazaki. The interview wasn't merely focused on the DLC, though; for example, they asked Miyazaki how he felt about players using guides to complete Elden Ring, and he replied that it's a perfectly valid playstyle.
Between Embracer laying off thousands of employees and Microsoft shuttering studios like Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, the recent wave of high profile multibillion-dollar acquisitions have proven to be terrible for the games industry. It's hard to look at any game studio that's been gobbled up by a new parent company and not be worried that it may soon be gutted just to promise shareholders 11% higher profits for the next fiscal year. This vile trend was on my mind when I visited FromSoftware in May for PC Gamer's cover story on Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree—despite seeming quite independent, the studio does have a parent company, Kadokawa Corporation.
The week before I traveled to Tokyo to play Shadow of the Erdtree for PC Gamer's next cover story, I knew I needed to brush up on my Elden Ring skills. Instead of tackling the game solo again I decided to recruit a friend and try out the Seamless Co-op mod, which turned out to be a blast—I recommend it to anyone going back to Elden Ring after their first playthrough.
Galvanic Games, the studio behind Wizard With a Gun, is shutting down.
Before he owned videogames growing up, FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki loved tabletop RPGs and their source books full of quests and monsters. It's not hard to see that passion reflected in any of the games he's designed at FromSoftware, but Elden Ring particularly so: Its sprawling map echoes the kinds I loved to pore over and draw myself (poorly) as a kid, from Lord of the Rings' Middle-earth to Warcraft's Azeroth. Elden Ring also seems to directly connect back to the RPGs of the '80s with its skeleton-filled catacombs, like tabletop-style dungeons ripped straight from the pages of an AD&D campaign.
PC Gamer recently sat down with Obsidian CEO Fergus Urquhart during the summer game showcases in Los Angeles, and in a wide-ranging interview briefly talked about game preservation, and what studios can do with their older titles to keep them playable as long as possible.