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Lies of P, an action-RPG developed by Neowiz Games and Round8 Studio, has made waves in the gaming industry for its Soulslike gameplay and intriguing narrative. Drawing inspiration from the works of FromSoftware, particularly Bloodborne,…

Music sets the mood. Before there was sound in motion pictures there was music guiding the mood. Actors in films like Nosferatu would act to a metronome giving their movements a rhythm different to the work stage actors were doing. Video…

A broken warrior trapped in a deep pit, the key to his salvation dropped from above by a mysterious figure in the night. You’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the intro to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the latest game from the Dark…

Art is in constant motion, it has to be otherwise it stagnates. Games kept moving forward this decade despite the efforts of some of the most powerful companies and people in the industry. For every rote shooter there was a Spec Ops: The…

The easiest thing to do this decade when writing about video games was to compare something to Dark Souls. From Crash Bandicoot to Cuphead to Assassin's Creed to Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Hidetaka Miyazaki's now legendary creation became…

Horror gaming has really evolved since the new millennium put it's cold claws around our necks. Mainstream horror games are no longer relegated to zombie infested mansions or towns overcome by thick fog and pyramid-headed monsters. Ever…

We burn holy candles against profane darkness. We erect towering steeples on the graves of old Gods. We chant from sacred scriptures to banish unholy fears and temptations. But what if our faith itself is not enough? What if the…

"Punishment is it's own reward," I think to myself as Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa spears me into the frozen ground for the tenth time in an hour. I'm no masochist but Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is probably the closest I'll ever come to enjoying…

Does this list really need to exist? Probably not. Is ranking the Soulsborne - a portmanteau of the Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne games - arbitrary and unnecessary? Almost certainly. Am I going to do it anyway? Is a bear…

Last year for International Women's Day we here at the Gaming Section, deep in the basement of HeadStuff HQ, wrote about the women behind the games we all love so much. Well the call came down from upstairs and bellowed "MORE! MORE!". So…