After ten minutes of a blank screen the camera pans down to Jim Ryan sitting sullen on the floor. He looks up and says:What can States of Play learn from Elden Ring?
"Oh ho ho. Thou desireth announcements, ye elden fools? Bewitched, thy be! If thou wisheth for the devil's hype, ye shall seek it."
He laughs for five minutes straight.
A blank url comes on screen that simply says "__________.com" People frantically try to figure out what the URL means, but it turns out that IGN had a guide out so they just give up and use that.
They go to the URL, and suddenly they are faced with having to complete a Dance Dance Revolution on hard using only the A, L, T, and V keys on their keyboards. People who fail are unilaterally told to "git gud." People with arthritis are told "Well these announcements just clearly aren't for you. I'm getting tired of this difficulty debate."
The lucky few who beat the DDR track are met with one of two messages;
"Ragnarok is nigh, under the eleventh sky of the cycle on high. Alas, for Kratos begets Kratos. Solemn be thy name."
Or "State of Play is dead," if they happened to go onto the Playstation website before finishing the side quest. What? You didn't know that going on the Playstation website before finishing the quest would lock you out of it? What are you, a casual?