Month: February 2025

Before the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion arrived for Elden Ring, director Hidetaka Miyazaki set some interesting expectations for the DLC’s map. He basically said the new map would be similar in size to the base game’s starting area of Limgrave.

That’s definitely underselling the Realm of Shadows, the DLC’s map, quite a bit. In fact, on X (formerly known as Twitter), an account called Elden Ring Updates posted Shadow of the Erdtree’s world over the top of Elden Ring’s landmass. It’s pretty astonishing viewed this way and shows it’s clearly bigger than Miyazaki in…

Last year, beer company Heineken introduced the Gaming Fridge, a PC with a fridge installed, but now it wants to put the power to get a Heineken 0.0–its non-alcoholic beer–into players’ hands with its Cool Down Controller. Heineken 0.0 launched the controller at CCXP24, a Comic-Con event in Brazil, where fans could see the device in action.

Designed and conceptualized by creative agency LePub Sao Paulo and Milan in partnership with Heineken 0.0, the control is said to know when to “refresh” players during high-pressure moments via advanced sensors that monitors both button pressure …