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Sony is reportedly in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the owner of Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne developer FromSoftware

By Demi Williams Published

Sony is reportedly in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the owner of FromSoftware.

Consoles & PC
A screenshot from Dark Souls 2 of two figures by a bonfire.
Dark Souls creator isn’t sure ‘how or if the series would have continued the way it did without Dark Souls 2’

By Catherine Lewis Published

Hidetaka Miyazaki says Dark Souls 2 introduced "a lot" of ideas carried forth into the rest of the series.

Consoles & PC
Screenshot from action RPG soulslike Lies of P
Lies of P solved my issue with Dark Souls' ‘fake’ difficulty

By Catherine Lewis Published

Unlike Dark Souls, Lies of P doesn’t purposely attempt to frustrate the player, proving soulslikes don’t need to be annoying to be difficult.

Consoles & PC
An product image for Dark Souls: The Board Game - The Sunless City, showing the board, miniatures, cards, dice and box.
Dark Souls: The Board Game - The Sunless City is a new tabletop dungeon crawler

By Catherine Lewis Published

Dark Souls: The Board Game - The Sunless City is a new core set for the tabletop dungeon crawler with a fresh campaign.

Gaming
Dark Souls Remastered
Get good? Dark Souls isn’t really that hard, it’s just rather annoying

By Catherine Lewis Published

I tried playing Dark Souls for the first time, and it was easier than I expected - just quite frustrating.

Consoles & PC
armored being on right fighting giant armored being on left
How Dark Souls invasions have influenced the modern stealth genre

By Robert Hough Published

Dark Souls has influenced some of the best stealth games around.

Consoles & PC
A player is kitted out in unique armor in the Elden Ring Colosseum Update trailer
The free Elden Ring update adds a PvP Colosseum in which to murder other players

By Jasmine Gould-Wilson Published

Fight for glory as the Elden Ring update takes a gladiatorial turn, adding PvP arenas like those in the Dark Souls games.

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Concept art from the Dark Souls 2D pitch at Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco was pitched a 16-bit Dark Souls, and it looks fantastic

By Jasmine Gould-Wilson Published

Artist Thomas Fei tweeted the concept art for the 2D Dark Souls game that was pitched to Bandai Namco in 2016.

Consoles & PC
An Unkindled knight in Dark Souls 3
As Elden Ring booms, Dark Souls’ servers are still broken

By Callum Bains Published

Dark Souls' PC servers were taken offline four months ago, and there's still not word on when they might be back.

Consoles & PC
An Elden Ring warrior fights a gnarly boss
Elden Ring almost included Dark Souls’ most controversial feature

By Callum Bains Published

A fresh datamine suggests Elden Ring almost included a weapon and armor durability system, which was scrapped before launch.

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