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It’s a nightmare, quite simply.

A treacherous descent filled with fire-breathing monsters, dart-slinging imps, and boulder-tossing brutes.

Elden Ring

Make it across that, and you’ll fight one of the early game’s tougher bosses.

I know Ishould, but I’m not entirely sure Ican.

Elder Dragon Greyoll kicked your arse a couple of dozen hours ago?

Elden Ring

Get your own back with a blast of Comet Azur followed by a shower of Glintstone Comets.

It’s an awful place with a Doomsday vibe, and yet… it’s perfect.

All of which is full credit to FromSoftware’s processes.

Elden Ring

Caelid, Yahar’gul and Blighttown, I love ‘em all.

OurElden Ring reviewreckons “suffering has never been so much fun”

Elden Ring

Bloodborne

Aran holds a huge sword aloft, mouth open in a battle cry in the promotional key art for Blades of Fire used as the header on storefronts

Elden Ring Nightreign

Henry and pal in a stockade in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

Elden Ring Nightreign

Elden Ring

Borderlands 4 screenshot showcasing four different Vault Hunters taking on enemies with various weapons

Borderlands 4

Borderlands 4 screenshot of a gun equipped with Licensed Parts from different makers

An old man with a staff in Borderlands 4

Nier Automata

Days Gone Remastered protagonist Deacon running from hundreds of zombies in the rain

PS5 Pro reveal from trailer

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 screenshot of the Paintress painting the number 33 onto a distant pillar while Gustave and Sophie watch from the harbor port, framed by a circle of light

Absolute Martian Manhunter #2

Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan and the rest of the cast of Thunderbolts*

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2