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Review: Wot I Think: Dark Souls II
Praise the pun
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Dark Souls 2: Scholar Of The First Sin's online features have been restored
FromSoftware are still working on the Dark Souls Remastered servers
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Have You Played... Dark Souls 2?
A wild ride
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What's better: impossible geometry, or games playing the music CD left in your drive?
Vote now: oddity or serendipity?
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Dark Souls 2: Scholar Of The First Sin's online features have been restored
FromSoftware are still working on the Dark Souls Remastered servers
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What's better: impossible geometry, or games playing the music CD left in your drive?
Vote now: oddity or serendipity?
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RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2014
We list our favourite games from 2014, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else
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Elden Ring should be safe from the security exploit which took Dark Souls PvP offline
Devs have "made sure the necessary security measures are in place"
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All Dark Souls PvP servers are offline after security threat is discovered
The Trojan Horse is a notorious boss
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Supporters only | I beat Dark Souls 2 with the power of friendship
Whether they liked it or not
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In their haste to make "soulslikes", devs have forgotten what makes Dark Souls unique - its level design
A cold, dark and gentle place
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