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PC owners who own Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition are now able to remove its Games for Windows Live integration. The move to Steamworks, which has been in the works for some time, was originally scheduled for last month before being slightly delayed. The migration is optional, should you …
Read More »Dark Souls GFWL migration delayed until December
Bandai Namco’s Dark Souls will ditch Games for Windows Live a little later than initially planned. The swap from GFWL to Steam was scheduled to take place this month but will now occur in December. We are working hard to finalize the process to move your Dark Souls: Prepare to …
Read More »Dark Souls ditching Games for Windows Live next month
Bandai Namco has at last confirmed concrete plans to remove Games for Windows Live from the PC version of Dark Souls. Owners will be able to carry over achievements and, most crucially, save games once the game is shifted to Steam’s servers. To switch gamers will simply have to input …
Read More »Dark Souls’ director promoted to From Software president
Staffing changes occurring at the developer-publisher just weeks after its acquisition by media company
Read More »Bandai Namco ‘seeking avenues’ for Dark Souls on PC post GFWL
The upcoming death of Games for Windows Live doesn’t mean permanent hollowing for Dark Souls. That’s according to Bandai Namco, which has pledged that the PC version of the cult RPG will continue working for the time being and eventually migrate to an alternative system. With the release of Dark …
Read More »Lords of the Fallen dev ‘had a really tough time’ dealing with Dark Souls comparisons
Former The Witcher dev Tomasz Gop has admitted that he at one stage struggled to deal with the constant comparisons between his upcoming game Lords of the Fallen and Dark Souls. "I had a really tough time around a year ago, or even beyond that,” the executive producer told Digital …
Read More »THE DAILY MAIL FILES: Paper links Leeds teacher stabbing to Dark Souls
UK paper The Daily Mail has inevitably linked the tragic stabbing of a Leeds schoolteacher to video games. 61-year-old Spanish teacher Ann Maguire was yesterday killed in front of pupils yesterday by a still unnamed 15 year old male student. Police trawling social media accounts of schoolboy, 15, accused of …
Read More »Dark Souls developer From Software acquired by Famitsu owner Kadokawa
Japanese publisher Kadokawa has acquired the studio behind cult action RPG series Dark Souls. Siliconera reports that Kadokawa, which owns Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, will next month take control of 80 per cent of From Software, ending the developer’s previous spell of independence. From CEO Naotoshi Zin says that the move …
Read More »Some Dead Island: Riptide codes are accidentally redeeming Dark Souls on Steam
A number of consumers have this morning taken to the internet to complain about a problem with some UK versions of Dead Island: Riptide. The Steam forums carry complaints from several users who tried to redeem the Steam code found in their copy of the game only to find that …
Read More »Dark Souls PC ‘half-assed’, admits director
Yui Tanimura promises greater focus for Dark Souls 2
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