We take for granted all the bad parts of game design when it's just the way things are done, until someone thinks of a better way to do it. No one thought it was weird that you couldn’t move your mouse to look around in shooters until Bungie came up with mouse freelook for Marathon.

The whole room was crowded around our demo station, watching us take on the final boss of our Nightreign demo. Our all-press team were only the second group to get here. The other was a group of professional Souls players.

Feedback on Elden Ring Nightreign has already begun pouring in, though one simple-sounding request may prove too great for the game to handle.

T his past weekend saw the first round of network tests for Elden Ring Nightreign, the upcoming standalone multiplayer game spun out of FromSoftware’s magnum opus. Unlike last y