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A Dark Souls comic is on the way, and here's a variant cover for issue #1

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:39:00 +1300

Titan Comics is releasing a comic book series based on the Dark Souls series starting April 6, just before Dark Souls III is due to release.

The comics will tell new stories based on Dark Souls' world but separate from the games.

Alan Quah (Godzilla: Awakening) will handle the art, while George Mann (Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor) will tackle writing duties.

Twitch fails to play Dark Souls

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:24:00 +1200

Twitch asked recently if its community could play legendarily difficult Dark Souls using only collective text input, and the answer appears to be "not really."

Nearly one hundred hours into the playthrough, the streaming platform's character is still stuck in the game's first area, Undead Asylum.

The stream, controlled by text commands inputted by players into Twitch chat, is a followup to similar experiments with simpler games.

Dark Souls’ Artorias of the Abyss coming to consoles

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:20:00 +1200

Dark Souls’ Artorias of the Abyss content pack is coming to consoles.

The DLC features four boss battles including one with titular fallen knight Artorias the Abysswalker, as well as new maps, armour, weapons, spells, non-playable characters, enhanced PvP, and “additional challenging content”, according to Namco.

The content was previously only available in the Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for PC.

Dark Souls easy mode comment a mistranslation

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:08:00 +1200

Dark Souls game director Hidetaka Miyazaki is not considering an easy mode for that game – his words were simply mistranslated, say Namco.

It was initially reported that Miyazaki said “I am thinking about whether I should prepare another difficulty that everyone can complete or carefully send all gamers the messages behind our difficult games.”

However according to Namco, what was actually said was: “This fact is really sad to me and I am thinking about how to make everyone complete the game while maintaining the current difficulty and carefully send all gamers the messages behind it.”

Dark Souls easy mode a possibility - director

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:49:00 +1200

Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki would prefer that his game be known as satisfying rather than difficult, and is thinking of ways to entice players put off by its now-legendary toughness.

“I am aiming at giving players sense of accomplishment in the use of difficulty,” said Miyazaki, “however, it is true that Dark Souls is rather difficult and a number of people may hesitate to play”.

“This fact is really sad to me and I am thinking about whether I should prepare another difficulty that everyone can complete or carefully send all gamers the messages behind our difficult games.”

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition gamescom 2012 trailer

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:19:00 +1200

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition and Darks Souls: Artorias of the Abyss DLC pack include an untold chapter in the world of Lordran.

Sony admits mistake not publishing Demon’s Souls

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:37:00 +1300

Sony has agreed that declining to publish the cult RPG Demon’s Souls was one of its biggest blunders in recent years.

Responding to a GameInformer article that chronicled some of Sony’s mistakes in recent years and suggested passing up publisher rights on From Software’s PlayStation 3 exclusive was among them, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida replied, "Absolutely! Tell me about it! 100% agree!"

Yoshida went on to explain that the publisher had failed to properly estimate the quality of the final product after limited time with the game while it was still in development.

Dark Souls for PC petition gets Namco’s attention

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:59:00 +1300

An online petition calling for a PC edition of the brutal RPG Dark Souls has been signed by over 76,000 people and caught the attention of publisher Namco Bandai.

In response, Namco Bandai’s community manager, Tony Shoupinou writes on the company’s official forums, “I honestly wasn't expecting such massive support. My boss(es) even came to talk to me about this after it exploded all around the world. If you wanted to have the attention of Namco Bandai Games, now you have it.”

Shoupinou suggested interested gamers continue their campaign for a PC edition of the game. “The future is in your hands and I hope you will keep supporting this. I will make a personal objective to make sure every relevant person at Namco Bandai Games is in touch with this formidable effort.”

Dark Souls review

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:10:00 +1300

I have written this opening many times, hands still shaking and scalp still bleeding from the most recent bout of hair-pulling induced by From Software’s latest: Dark Souls. This has been written over, deleted, and rewritten. It’s been drafted again while considering the ritual destruction of my Xbox 360 after failing – again – to move past a particularly difficult area or boss. I have written it while feeling the thrill and elation that comes from finally defeating an enemy that, all those hours ago, seemed so impossible, and again when moments after the elation comes the crash as a more difficult opponent steps up to crush my newly swelled chest.

This game has come close to breaking me. That much is evidenced by the scrabbled, hastily jotted notes I took as I ventured through From Software’s twisted creation. Does that scratched ‘48’ on the wall denote the number of attempts I made at the Bell Gargoyle encounter? Is that my fingernail?

Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to Demon’s Souls and proves to be a cruel, challenging and demanding third-person action-RPG that throws players into a world full of grotesque and unsettling manifestations that try their hardest to end the players' lives as quickly and brutally as possible. It is up to the player to crawl, inch by hard fought inch, through this seemingly endless torment in the hopes of making it out alive.

Dark Souls "All Saints' Day" trailer

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:12:00 +1300

Namco Bandai has released a new trailer for Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to 2009’s PS3 exclusive Demon’s Souls.

Dark Souls earlybirds hunted

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:56:00 +1200

Players who enter the world of Dark Souls before its official launch in Japan tomorrow will be hunted down and killed by Black Phantoms warns From Software.

The measure has been implemented as some Japanese retailers have broken the game’s street date.

The fearsome predators will be drawn to players and punish them accordingly. The Black Phantoms are level 145, have 1,900 hit points and all abilities are set to the maximum 99.

Dark Souls prologue: part 2

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:36:00 +1200

From Software has released a new trailer for Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. Stricken by an undead curse, the player is exiled to the Northern Realms and must battle hideous demons and unimaginable monsters to collect souls and find the Eternal Flame of Life.

Dark Souls Prologue trailer

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:05:00 +1200

From Software has released a new trailer for Dark Souls. Stricken by the curse of undead, gamers are abolished to the northern realms and must battle hideous demons and unimaginable monsters to collect souls and find the Eternal Flame of Life.

Dark Souls GamesCom trailer

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:06:00 +1200

Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. In Dark Souls, stricken by the curse of undead, gamers are abolished to the Northern Realms and must battle hideous demons and unimaginable monsters to collect souls and find the Eternal Flame of Life, which is losing its light, to survive and cure the curse of undead.

Dark Souls

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:44:00 +1200

Dark Souls is Namco Bandai and From Software's spiritual sequel to the critically lauded 2009 dungeon-crawler Demon's Souls.

It arrives early in Japan exclusively for the PlayStation 3, but has a 7th of October European release date for both PS3 and, new for this game, Xbox 360. Like its predecessor, it is genetically related to the '90s combat RPG King's Field.

The game touts 60 hours of gameplay and from talking to the developers, it is set to be even more difficult than its agonizing predecessor. Although, unlike the previous game where, upon death, the game scenario you failed at gets progressively harder, instead the smiling and sadistic series developer Hidetaka Miyazaki states it has a steady learning curve that will eventually end in tears.

Dark Souls E3 2011 trailer

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:38:00 +1200

From Software has released a trailer for Dark Souls, the spiritual successor of Demon's Souls. It's due to be available around October 7th, for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Dark Souls "prepare to die" trailer

Tue, 24 May 2011 12:42:00 +1200

From Software and Namco Bandai have today released a new trailer for dungeon-crawler Dark Souls.

First Dark Souls trailer

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:07:00 +1300

Namco Bandai and From Software has released the first trailer for Dark Souls, the studio's follow-up to 2009's Demon's Souls.