Feature Articles
Friday21st Jun 2024
Poll Are You Playing Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree?
Back to your roots
It's not often that an expansion can command greater hype levels than full games, but that's exactly what's happened with Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. FromSoftware's highly anticipated return to its 2022 masterpiece has already attracted ridiculously positive review scores, although as is always the case with DLC, we're left...
Monday2nd Jan 2023
Game of the Year Push Square Readers' Top 10 PS5, PS4 Games of 2022
As voted by you
The time has come to unveil the best PS5 and PS4 games of 2022...according to readers of Push Square! Back near the end of the year, we asked our community to vote for their favourite titles, based on a shortlist of 50 PlayStation games. This year, the voting system was actually weighted based on user preference, with someone's...
Saturday31st Dec 2022
Game of the Year #2 - Elden Ring
The Tarnished has risen
There have already been so many long-form essays written, so many two-hour YouTube critiques produced about Elden Ring that the passage below is unlikely to contain a single original take on the FromSoftware title. Occupying the same sort of space as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it's considered a...
Friday30th Dec 2022
Game of the Year Top 10 PS5, PS4 Soundtracks of 2022
Let music reign
The end of the year is always a bright spot when it comes to writing. List articles can be an absolute blast to both write and read. Sure, you'll probably see about a thousand of them during the closing month of 2022, so what's one more, right? This list is here to talk about the very best PlayStation music we heard in 2022. While...
Poll Have You Completed Elden Ring?
Never give up
There's no doubt that Elden Ring was one of 2022's biggest deals. The open world RPG released all the way back in February (which somehow feels like an age ago now), but it managed to be a conversational centrepiece throughout the entire year. This was, of course, down to the title's overall quality, but it was also thanks to game's...
Thursday30th Jun 2022
Soapbox I Tried So Hard to Like Elden Ring, But I Just Couldn’t Do It
Born of the Bloodborne, undone by the Elden Ring
Despite never having played any of FromSoftware’s previous releases, the presentation of Bloodborne was too intriguing for me to pass up at launch. I played for a few hours, beat a couple of bosses, and I didn’t like it. Fast forward to 2022. Elden Ring launches, and all my friends excitedly talk...
Tuesday24th May 2022
Feature Bringing Elden Ring's Best and Worst Boys to Life
We speak to two of the game's most memorable voice actors
FromSoftware games are memorable for a myriad of reasons but in their hostile, melancholy worlds, the small number of NPCs that players can befriend are precious and memorable. So are those villains whose reputations precede them. As its biggest title to date, Elden Ring has a cast far larger...
Sunday6th Mar 2022
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Elden Ring?
Ohhhh, Elden Ring
Bloody hell, it feels like Elden Ring's the biggest thing in gaming since, well, we're not even sure what. The buzz that's surrounded this game's launch has been ridiculous. We always thought that it was going to be a hit, but we didn't think that it would be this popular. For what is still essentially a Souls-like title, it's...
Wednesday2nd Mar 2022
Poll How Far Into Elden Ring Are You?
Never give up
Alright everyone, it's time to talk about Elden Ring again. Or, more specifically, how we're all doing inside of FromSoftware's latest dark fantasy RPG. Surprise, surprise, the game's pretty bloody hard. It's also pretty bloody huge, sporting a surprisingly massive open world that's absolutely stuffed with secrets. Elden Ring's been...
Monday28th Feb 2022
Soapbox It's Okay to Enjoy Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West
Why not both?
History has a way of repeating itself, and just like Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017, the discourse surrounding Horizon Forbidden West has been destroyed by the arrival of an alternative open world game. Twitter is awash with the repetition of an increasingly tedious gag: apparently gamers can’t wait for the third instalment in Guerrilla...
Friday25th Feb 2022
Truly Tarnished
Elden Ring is finally here, folks. FromSoftware's long awaited open world Souls game has been getting incredibly positive reviews from critics — the scores are so high that it's currently one of the highest rated video games of all time — and our own Elden Ring PS5 review in progress is also packed with praise. Looks like we've...
Thursday24th Feb 2022
Round Up Elden Ring PS5, PS4 Reviews Crown One of the Best Games of All Time
Game of thrones
Elden Ring reviews are in, and perhaps crucially, scored Elden Ring reviews are in. Media had roughly a week to play through this 100-hour opus, so we’ve pumped the brakes on our score for the time being; it’s unlikely many review outlets have reached the credits of this release. That’s not stopping sites from declaring it one...
Monday14th Feb 2022
Poll What Elden Ring Starting Class Will You Choose?
Decision time
With Elden Ring now less than two weeks away, it's time to start making some important decisions. Firstly: what will be your starting class? Of course, you can spec in any direction you like whilst exploring The Lands Between, but choosing a specific class can help you achieve the build you like much faster. Maybe you want to stick...
Wednesday5th Jan 2022
Feature Push Square Readers' 10 Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games of 2022
A huge year for PlayStation
Recently, we published our Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games of 2022 article, which highlights a whopping 55 titles set to release over the next 12 months. At the bottom of that massive list, we included a poll so that our lovely readers could vote on their most anticipated games of 2022 — and these are the results. 10...
Monday15th Nov 2021
Hands On FromSoftware Puts Its All into Elden Ring
Rise, Tarnished
Elden Ring feels like everything FromSoftware has been doing for the past 12 years all at once. Sure, you could probably describe its latest title as open world Dark Souls and be more than halfway there, but to do so would ignore the obvious undertones of Bloodborne and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice that help make this new title stand...
