Tag Archives: Dark Souls

Just last week, in a move that pretty much nobody saw coming, Namco Bandai and Yorkshire Tea teamed up to offer a unique Dark Souls branded box of 80 tea bags with the game's logo printed on the side. This was a one-time one of a kind box but it …

Update: The giveaway is now over, the codes all ran out! If you've ever wanted to give the Souls games a shot then now is the perfect time as you can currently get a code for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for free on Steam thanks to the Golden …

When the PlayStation 4 was first announced back in early 2013, one of the first games shown running on its hardware was Deep Down, a dungeon crawling, Dark Souls-like experience with cooperative monster slaying and a stunning engine behind it all. But here we are nearly three years on and …

The Twitch Plays phenomenon kicked off with Twitch Plays Pokemon, allowing the community to control the game via the chat box. Then, just over a month ago, things were kicked up a notch with Twitch Plays Dark Souls, nobody thought they could do it but after 43 days, Dark Souls …

Less than a month ago, Twitch launched ‘Twitch Plays Dark Souls'. Nobody expected the Twitch chat to get very far in the game but after a few changes to the way Twitch Plays operates, things have been going pretty smoothly, with the community managing to take down Ornstein and Smough. …

In case you hadn't heard, after successfully beating Pokemon, Twitch has since moved on to a new challenge with Twitch plays Dark Souls. Now Dark Souls is a difficult game that requires pretty precise timing with your attacks, blocks and rolls- surely thousands of people spamming commands in to a …

Two heads are better than one, or so the old saying goes. The point is that when great minds think alike, they can achieve more than their respective parts ever could. Unfortunately though, as much as team-based superhero movies would have us believe, that doesn't scale up linearly. In fact, …

The Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition PC port has finally had its region lock patched out in a new update on Steam. The most recent update was announced by a Dark Souls developer on the Steam Community page. In an update on the Steam page, a developer wrote: “A …

It turns out that Bandai Namco is currently blocking access to the Dark Souls I port fixing mod, DSFix, and serving Dropbox accounts with DMCA take down notices in order to have it removed. However, unconfirmed reports are popping up, claiming that this was indeed a mistake. The DSFix mod …

Last month it was announced that the original Dark Souls game would be switching from Microsoft's Games for Windows Live servers to the much preferred Steam platform. Bandai Namco originally planned for the move to take place before the end of November but has since pushed the migration back until …

The original Dark Souls game was a hit with speed runners, so it makes sense that fans of the series would also want to try and beat Dark Souls II as fast as possible. Speed runner, Allakazzaror has set the new world record for a glitch free Dark Souls II …

We weren't entirely sure if this day would come but many Dark Souls players remained hopeful. Bandai Namco will finally be transitioning Dark Souls from Games for Windows Live to Steamworks, which should help reignite the title's multiplayer scene. Starting next month, those who own Dark Souls can redeem their …

With all of six months between today and the launch of Dark Souls II earlier this year, chances are the sadomasochist gamers out there must be champing at the bit to abuse themselves by playing something that's ungodly difficult; and has giant boss fights. Fortunately then, it looks like they won't …

Bloodborne was announced at E3 this year but the PS4 exclusive is coming sooner than you might think. The Dark Souls-esque title, developed by From Software, will launch on the sixth of February 2015, we've also got a brand new trailer, straight from the Tokyo Game Show. From Software found …

Dark Souls is largely considered to be one of the most difficult games around, beating the game is already an impressive accomplishment but beating it with a Rock Band guitar controller? That's a whole new feat in and of itself. Dark Souls player, Benjamin “Bearzly” Gwin, recently completed his run of …

From Software might be set to reveal ‘Project Beast' at E3 this year, according several leaks. The game is rumoured to be in co-development with Sony's Japanese studio and would be the developers second Playstation exclusive title. The newly leaked footage shows off 20 seconds of individually leaked gameplay segments …

Games for Windows Live is shutting down and as a result, many publishers have had to find new services to keep games online. So far Namco Bandai has been pretty quiet on the subject of future Dark Souls support as its multiplayer runs on GFWL and since Dark Souls II …

From Software has only just released Dark Souls II but it might already be cooking up something better, screenshots from what might be an E3 reveal trailer show off a new PS4 exclusive under the working title ‘Project Beast'. These rumours are currently circulating on NeoGAF and 4Chan but like …

A Japanese manga publisher by the name of Kadokawa has announced that it's bought an 80 per cent stake in From Software from its previous owners, Trans Comos. The Dark Souls developer will now become a smaller company a subsidiary of Kadokawa. Kadokawa made the move towards the end of …

Dark Souls developer, From Software, turned down a mobile version of its action RPG as it would mean heavily changing the controls. This is according to Alex Adjaj, Director of Global Strategy for Mobile at Publisher, Namco Bandai. In an interview with Digital Spy, Adjaj admitted that the publisher was interested …