Eden Rising

Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Kelsey Raynor discovers a very different Elden Ring to the one they were expecting. And you can visit our Pride Week hub to catch up on Pride Weeks past. Read more

Elden Ring's dogs are some of the most annoying enemies for me to wrap my head around in a fight. Even hundreds of hours into the game, one tiny mistake in a fight against a dog threatens to send me spiraling into despair and lost runes. I wanted to figure out what it was about FromSoft's dog-type enemies that made them so obnoxious to fight. So I put away my weapons and put up my fists to every dog in the Lands Between — including the Monstrous Dogs and the Red Wolf of Radagon — until I figured out why dogs are a pain in my butt.#eldenring #gameplay

I started Elden Ring on launch day in 2022. It was my first FromSoft game and turns out, I didn't know what I was getting into. Here's how I let a bunch of assumptions and anxieties drive me to play Elden Ring wrong and bad for two years and over 200 hours. No, I still haven't beaten it.

The new Elden Ring trailer is chock full of little weirdoes, hecked up guys, and nasty creatures. We use our expert knowledge of From Software's oeuvre to accurately predict who they are, and what their deal is. #eldenring

How much storytelling can you do with a few yards of cloth? If you're FromSoftware, a whole freaking lot! In Elden Ring and FromSoftware's ever-growing catalog of solemn sword adventures, there's an astounding amount of attention paid to cloth. The shape, the texture, the movement. But why? Polygon's resident man of the cloth Patrick is here to break it all down.#eldenring