Author: Caelyn Ellis

[ad_1] The Sims has been around for 22 years now, with even the fourth, and most recent, numbered entry being a venerable eight years old. My first time playing the original was a communal experience in the sixth form common room, crowded around a friend’s laptop. We created a replica of said common room,…

[ad_1] Hello! All this week, Eurogamer has been marking Pride Month – on this, its 50th anniversary year in the UK – with a series of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming. As our Pride Week nears its end, Caelyn Ellis recollects the early internet’s game-adjacent social spaces and explores how their…

[ad_1] Death is pretty integral to videogames. Not in some fancy, high-falutin conceptual way, but as the default failure state in most action games. Even when it’s not explicitly referred to as such by the game, we talk about dying, about losing lives. At the same time, the attitude towards death is rather relaxed.…

[ad_1] It’s no secret that Hidetaka Miyazaki loves poison swamps as much as we love his games. His self-confessed masochistic streak compels him to keep adding them. Even Dark Souls 2, which wasn’t directed by Miyazaki, didn’t give us respite from these sludgy slimepits. If it’s a Soulsborne: Ring Dies Twice game from From Software,…

[ad_1] I am of an age where most of my school memories are a jumbled haze, except for the occasional trauma nugget that likes to surface at inopportune times. (Everyone has those, right? Right?) Anyway, one of the few concrete recollections I have is that of a music lesson on tone (or symphonic, for the…

[ad_1] Hello! Our ongoing series of articles examining accessibility in games continues with this piece from Caelyn. This piece discusses depression. Anyone who has a large collection of games, whether it’s in the form of shelves of physical media, a Steam library bloated by years of sales and bundles, or a subscription service like Xbox…

[ad_1] Over the past couple of weeks, details have begun to emerge about a new Armored Core game from From Software. As Vikki reported, videos and screenshots were apparently shown as part of a consumer survey, and leakers have talked online about what they were shown. Since the original news appeared, screenshots have been shared,…