Twitch Plays Dark Souls against Random Input Dark Souls: man vs. machine

We've already told you about Twitch Plays Dark Souls, the shocking social experiment that lets thousands of viewers control the Chosen Undead one input at a time. But now it has some artificial competition: Random Input Dark Souls.

It's the same idea, minus all the human involvement: Random Input Dark Souls literally uses a random button-pushing algorith. You might think a bunch of random keystrokes wouldn't stand a chance against thousands of human players, but Random Input has already made nearly the same progress as Twitch Plays in about half the time.

Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.