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Rumour: Namco, From Software planning Dark Souls DLC

DLC content for Dark Souls is inbound from Namco Bandai and From Software, EGM is reporting.

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The pack is being prepped for release sometime in Q1 2012, and could be named Yama No Mori – Forest of Darkness or Dark Forest in English – following a trademark filing by From late last year.

No more details were mentioned.

If DLC were to happen, this’d come as a big surprise considering past statements given by From Software and Namco Bandai.

Hidetaka Miyazaki, the game’s director, said there was no post-launch content being planned, but teased the team could do something if there were interesting opportunities using online functionality and the Dark Souls engine.

It may explain why UK marketing director Lee Kirton was silent on the subject back in September in an interview with VG247 before the game’s launch.

Dark Souls launched in October last year for PS3 and 360.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/01/11/rumour-namco-from-software-planning-dark-souls-dlc/#more-225834
 
From Software confirms Dark Souls series to continue

Dark Souls technically isn’t a sequel to Demon’s Souls, but From Software doesn’t intend to call it quits on the fledgling quasi-series.

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The versatile developer told GameTrailers it expects to produce more games of the same ilk.

“Of course, it’s not over yet,” R&D head Masanori Takeuchi said.

“You have to go back to our roots, which is King’s Field. We’ve made many games in that series. We’ve always been enamoured by dark fantasy action RPGs. That’s just been our core DNA and I think we’ll continue to utilize that.”

Demon’s Souls was itself considered a successor to the hardcore first-person dungeon crawlers released under the King’s Field banner.

We’ve always been about making games for the core gamer, and they weren’t necessarily games that did well financially, which is too bad,” executive producer Eiichi Nakajima added.

“The success of both Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls, which have each sold over a million [copies] per title worldwide, has made us shift our thinking internally to not just core gamers, but to globalize our products, that they can be successful on a worldwide scale. That’s now one of the key pillars we consider when we develop games in the future.”

As a part of this global expansion, the developer is looking at non-traditional platforms, judging whether mobile and tablet devices can support its particular development ethos.

“We know what butters our bread, obviously it’s consumer games. That’s where we see some of our key strengths,” Takeuchi reassured.

“That being said, as developers, we like to do new things and new challenges will help us mature and grow as a developer. Smart phones and tablets are an interesting challenge for us.

“If we do go down that path, it’s not going to be what you see on the market today, [which are] more watered down, less ‘core’ experiences. We like to make games for core gamers, so if we take that approach, it’s going to be a core experience on a tablet, something that gamers are going to love.”

Thanks, GameInformer.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/09/from-software-confirms-dark-souls-series-to-continue/#more-241100
 
It’s Namco’s call whether Dark Souls is released on PC, says From Software

From Software’s head of R&D, Masanori Takeuchi, has said the studio is well aware of the desire for a PC release of Dark Souls, but ultimately, the decision is entirely Namco’s.

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Speaking in an interview GameTrailers, Takeuchi said if the publisher decided the game should be ported, From Software would oblige.

“That’s going to be a decision left up to the publisher, but yes, we have seen the comments and we do know of the desire for a PC version,” he said on the matter.

According to DSOgaming, back in February Namco’s forum administrator, shoupinou, posted on the site that he couldn’t say whether Namco was working on a PC port or not, but he wanted to get in touch with the person who started the Dark Souls PC petition.

The petition currently has 87,500 signatures which is surely enough to apparently garner interest from Namco, to a degree.
Now, we just need to keep our fingers crossed.

Thanks, Edo.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/10/its...eleased-on-pc-says-from-software/#more-241523
 
Dark Souls PC confirmed in German magazine

German PC games mag PC Action has confirmed in its latest issue that Dark Souls will be coming to PC this year.

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The cover for the issue (thanks, Talkar) features it alongside Assassin’s Creed III, Risen 2 and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria as an exclusive

The infamously difficult RPG will arrive on the “master race” this August as Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (via GAF).

There’ll be new bosses for the PC version, but besides that, it’ll be pretty even content wise with the console version.

Not many other details have arrived as yet.

A PC edition of the game was teased as recently as late last month following a fan petition to bring it to the platform seen nearly 100,000 signatures earlier in the year.

The From Software RPG, which launched last October for PS3 and 360 via Namco Bandai, was critically hailed and performed well at retail, charting second in the UK charts at its debut.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/04/07/dark-souls-pc-confirmed-in-german-magazine/
 
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition lands on PC August 24

Dark Souls will launch on PC in August subtitled as the Prepare to Die Edition. The game was announced during Namco Bandai Gamer’s Day event in Las Vegas, and it was said initially, there weren’t any plans for a PC port of the game. However, due to the outpouring of requests for a PC version, Namco requested that From Software start making “arrangements to bring the game” to the platform. Hidetaka Miyazaki, its director, expressed his gratitude during the event to the game’s fans and stated the PC petition for its release was “encouraging.” Trailer’s below.


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