Made of Win or Straight to Bin... Dark Souls

A lot of games split opinion on launch; even more split opinion during the pre-release hype when judgement is passed purely on leaked screens, hollow publisher PR waffle and the pedigree of the developer. In my new feature, Made of Win or Straight to Bin, I’ll attempt to balance the arguments for and against the biggest incoming games by presenting the five best reasons to be excited and not so excited about their release. First up is incoming dungeon crawler, Dark Souls.

2009’s Demon’s Souls is an awesome game, but upon release it divided the PS3 community down the middle with its contrast of incredible gameplay and knuckle-whitening difficulty. This October, From Software launch the “spiritual successor”, Dark Souls, as a multiplatform title and are hoping to recapture the same sense of online community and hardcore respect as they did with Demon’s Souls. But will it be any good? Let’s have a look…

2011 Autumn - Winter Games Round-Up

Well, here we are again… August. That wonderful threshold after which, every year, the gaming release schedule goes bat shit crazy. Forget the rush of releases between January and March by developers too afraid to set foot in Q4 – this, the beautiful, chaotic space between the last week of August and the first week of December, is where it’s at. I’d be brave enough to bet that 9 out of 10 people reading this post either have one of these titles pre-ordered, or intend to have in the next few months.