Month: September 2024

Malenia is responsible for claiming countless lives in Elden Ring, largely because of her rapid attacks and regenerating health. She’s so difficult that one highly-skilled player rose to hero status by defeating her for others countless times.

In the upcoming Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, we’re probably going to need Let Me Solo Her once again. Speaking to IGN, director Hidetaka Miyazaki said players will “find optional bosses who have been tuned in a similar way to the likes of Malenia.”

Battle-hardened FromSoftware fans won’t even blink at the news though. The Dark Souls series has always slipped its hardest boss fights into the DLC. Dark Souls 1 has Artorias and Manus, Dark Souls 2 has Fume Knight, and Dark Souls 3 has Sister Friede. Because many of the DLCs take place near …

Get ready for stormy skies, moody Elizabethan streets, and fantastic fae castles. We’re goin’ back to Losomn.

I booted up Remnant 2 earlier this week, and was quickly reminded of why it’s still one of my faves from this year. It’s a great third-person romp that’s a mixture of soulslike staples and ARPG-style procedural generation. I must’ve had a premonition, because its first DLC has just been announced today. 

It’s called The Awakened King, and it follows—you guessed it—the awakening of a king. Specifically, Losomn’s One True King, whose extended nap has caused a lot of problems—not least because his mind has been poisoned by the Root, a world-spanning plague. 

Unlike a lot of Remnant 2’s multiversal worlds, Losomn’s actually two worlds sm…