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A recent announcement for the upcoming Dark Souls II assured us that Atlus’ challenging RPG series still has plenty of steam, and left us dying to hack and slash our way through ravenous hordes all over again. Today, the Souls train shows no signs of stopping; Atlus announced today that the original masterpiece Demon’s Souls is making its [...]
At tonight’s Spike VGAs, From Software and Namco Bandai surprised attendees and the world with an announcement for the upcoming Dark Souls II, even while its predecessor remains fresh in our minds. Already guaranteed are releases for PS3, PC, and Xbox 360. Series creator Hidetaka Miyazaki is on the project as supervisor, and From Software’s Tomohiro Shibuya [...]
In honor of Halloween right around the corner, we present to you the ten scariest games of all time. Of course, when you say “scary,” that can mean something different to everyone. Personally, I tend to go in for the psychological scares that still send a shiver down my spine years after playing a game, [...]
Dark Souls is a game about overcoming challenges, despite very long odds and almost no hand-holding. It can be cruel, it can be harsh, and it can be uncompromising. The same can also be said about how the PC version of the game handles versus the console version. After Dark Souls came out on PS3 and [...]
Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki says that he is surprised at the positive reception the game has received among global audiences, and that he is considering an easier difficulty option to make the game accessible. According to Miyazaki, the game’s reception was “really a huge surprise” and he “did not expect the success at all.” “I [...]
Since its launch, Microsoft’s Kinect has struggled to find the audience that Nintendo’s Wii initially garnered. Despite a few strong entries for the platform, there has yet to be that must-play title for core gamers. From Software, the developer behind Dark Souls, Armored Core, and Tenchu, has decided to throw its hat into the Kinect [...]
North American fans of From Software’s brutally challenging Demon’s Souls have just over a month and a half to play as much of the game as they can online, until Atlus shuts down its servers for good. Before that happens, though, Atlus has planned two world-tendency events, spanning from May 1-15 and 16-31 respectively. In addition to [...]
Atlus has announced that Demon’s Souls, one of the top role-playing games released on the Playstation 3 in 2009, will be getting its online support extended into 2012. The exact end date has not been decided upon yet. Our commitment to the game and the fans that turned it into an incredible success remains as [...]
Dark Souls officially releases tomorrow, September 22, in Japan, but some players have gotten their hands on an early copy of the game. Seeing as From Software gets their kicks from punishing players in a variety of ways in game, it should come as little surprise they had their own “unique” way of dealing with said [...]
Namco-Bandai has released a new batch of screenshots for Dark Souls, the follow-up to the dark horse hit of 2009, Demon’s Souls, showing off new bosses and game mechanics. The boss monsters appear to be even more varied, with an armored boar, a wolf that can almost block out the moon, a huge raven, and [...]