Say what you will about Josh Sawyer, but the man has a lot of experience when it comes to trying to come up with a satisfying...
Elden Ring, as well as most other FromSoftware games, is fairly unique in that while it's a game developed in Japan, it portr...
Encumbrance in video games can be quite annoying, and as such, game designers are often tasked with solving this perceived pr...
The editors over at PC Gamer have assembled a fresh list of what they consider to be the best RPGs currently available on PC....
Following some Oblivion-related frustration, Felipe Pepe of The CRPG Book fame wrote a lengthy article where he tries to figu...
A few days back, we got an opportunity to check out WCCFTech’s list of 2019’s best RPGs. And now, what with a good deal o...
If you'd like to experience From Software's atmospheric action-RPG Dark Souls on your Nintendo Switch, you can now purchase t...
Officially, Bandai Namco's remaster of the original Dark Souls should be releasing tomorrow, on May 25, 2018, but if you inte...
The team at Bandai Namco Entertainment has put together a new gameplay trailer for the remastered edition of their cult class...
Back when Dark Souls: Remastered was originally announced, the re-release of the cult classic action-RPG was supposed to laun...
Boss fights are not a thing exclusive to RPGs, but reading this list of great and awful boss fights brought to us by PC Gamer...
With the remastered edition of Bandai Namco and FromSoftware's Dark Souls releasing in less than two months, some media outle...
Are you a fan of dodging, rolling, using souls as currency, and running around a decaying fantasy land with an unrealisticall...
Since its release back in 2011, Dark Souls has established itself as quite a distinct sub-type of action-RPG that resonated w...
Flexing their list-making muscles prior to the inevitable game of the year season, the folks over at PCGamesN have put togeth...
The Dark Souls trilogy may be over, but the folks at Bandai Namco Entertainment are far from being done. According to a press...
Perhaps the reason the mysteries of Dark Souls are so enticing is because the game doesn't provide us with all the answers an...
Worldbuilding is an important aspect of RPGs and as such, IGN offers us their take on what the best RPG worlds are, in a conv...
A new PC Gamer feature lists their favorite sidequests, and while it is far from comprehensive and mostly covers quests from ...
I've read a lot of Dark Souls-related articles over the years. Some of them were quite insightful, others a bit more far-fetc...
Tom Roberts from Cultured Vultures is playing the original Dark Souls for the first time, documenting his experiences. By the...
If you're in a mood for some light-hearted riffing on the easy target of culinary video game tie-ins, Richard Cobbett's lates...
Having dealt with mimics for so many years across Dungeons & Dragons tabletop campaigns, D&D-based video games like Baldur's ...
The final 20 titles that IGN considers to be the best of the best when it comes to RPGs have been unveiled. By now, their edi...
This article on PC Gamer digs deep to find the origins of the beloved gesture, and the staple of the Souls series – Pra...
An editorial on Kotaku takes a long and detailed look at the nature of heroism within the world of Dark Souls and explores th...
Dwarf Fortress is undoubtedly one of the most complex games out there. It's well known as this intricate colony management ga...
The development of choice in RPGs is the subject of a long post over at Gamasutra, which charts a path from the ‘80s to...
From Software president and Dark Souls III director Hidetaka Miyazaki has recently given an interview to Japanese website 4ga...
Eurogamer writer Chris Donland has penned a piece about his first experience with Dark Souls and how the fact that he got lat...
YouTube channel SuperBunnyHop has published a critique and retrospective of the level design of the Souls series, which start...
According to a translation of Japanese press release done by the folks at Gematsu which seems to line up with Google Translat...
YouTube channels Game Makers Toolkit and Errant Signal have both dedicated a video essay each to the subject of difficulty in...
Cool Ghosts' Matt Lees has produced a roughly 25-minute video essay with which he attempts to explain why he believes Bloodbo...
This new editorial on Eurogamer provides a fascinating and detailed analysis of the lore, narrative structure, and storytelli...
With the release of Dark Souls III slated for tomorrow, Richard Cobbett has taken the opportunity to talk about why he hasn'...
Bandai Namco has teamed up with GameStop to publish a mobile spin-off of the Dark Souls series, titled Slashy Souls, on Andro...
Pointing at From Software's ability to craft games like the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne in a way that leaves us processi...
IGN is reporting that the Dark Souls franchise will receive a comic book in April, although as of now it's not clear whether ...
Speaking with the folks at EDGE, as reported by games website GamesRadar, From Software president and Dark Souls game directo...
GameInformer's promised Dark Souls III coverage for the month has turned out to be pretty anemic, apparently in large part be...
Japanese video game magazine Famitsu is reporting on another sales milestone reached by the Dark Souls series: the combined s...
Dark Souls III hasn't even been officially revealed yet (though there are fairly convincing rumors and leaks pointing to its ...
During the past couple of days, a couple of rumors concerning a possible announcement of Dark Souls III at E3 have been circu...
James Margaris has penned what I believe is a very persuasive piece over at Gamasutra that argues that Dark Souls is a sincer...
Kotaku UK has picked the brains of a few game designers about From Software's "Souls" titles, the type of fantasy action-RPG...
The Guardian has published an interview with From Software president Hidetaka Miyazaki, who most of you probably now as the d...
There has been no shortage of Dragon Age: Inquisition-themed coverage during the holidays, but you might have nonetheless mis...
In case you wanted to try the PC version of Dark Souls but had been deterred by the presence of Games for Windows Live, this ...
With a low-key announcement on the Steam forums Bandai Namco communicated that the migration of Dark Souls' PC version from G...
USGamer has published an article on the Dark/Demon's Souls community, with interviews with youtuber Dave "DaveControlLive" Kl...
The folks at GameSpot chatted with Lords of the Fallen's executive producer Tomasz Gop about the similarities and differences...
Bandai Namco has announced on their official Tumblr blog that next month the PC version of Dark Souls will finally drop Games...
Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Adam Smith has penned an editorial in which he compares the dungeons of Daggerfall with Dark Souls' ov...
There is no disputing the fact that the graphic fidelity of video games has increased exponentially over the years, but there...
Footage of the From Software's alleged Project Beast, an apparently Souls-styled action-RPG meant to be released on PlayStati...
You're probably aware of Games for Windows Live's planned July 1st shutdown, and that the original Dark Souls' PC version rel...
There have been unsubstantiated rumors concerning a Demon's Souls sequel for Sony's PlayStation 4 for a while, but I admit I ...
It's hard to say at this point what effect this might have on the Dark Souls franchise, if any, but it's certainly worth noti...
Peter "Durante" Thoman, the author of the DSFix mod that fixed many of the problems with the original Dark Souls' PC port, ha...
After putting a significant amount of time in Dark Souls II, EDGE published an editorial to argue against the common notion t...
EDGE is offering a short "Still Playing" retrospective article on Dark Souls. Not unexpectedly, the game's lack of handholdin...
Digital Spy recently chatted with Namco Bandai's director of global strategy for mobile Alex Adjadj about the chances of seei...
Eurogamer's latest addition to their Games of the Generation list is From Software's dark fantasy action-RPG Dark Souls. Here...
PCGamesN has published a list of what they consider the best, or at least among the best, PC RPGs of all times, and while I h...
Apparently between the original release and the Prepare to Die Edition re-release (which included the Artorias of the Abyss D...
Joystiq's Xav de Matos has penned an opinion piece on Dark Souls, explaining why he intially "got it all wrong" and why he's ...
One of the things the Souls "series" (if we can call it that) has been good at is inspiring dozens of editorials on the most ...
Dark Souls and its Artorias of the Abyss DLC are the focus of an article-style interview with game director Hidetaka Miyazaki...
If you're still on the fence whether you'd like to pick up the previously PC-exclusive content for Dark Souls, Artorias of th...
Owners of the console versions of Dark Soulls will be happy to know that the first and probably only piece of downloadable co...
Retrospective/descriptive articles on games as well-loved as Dark Souls are not rare at all, but to see one focus almost excl...
Zeboyd's Robert Boyd, who you might remember for working on retro-JRPG-like titles such as Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Sa...
VG247 has an article-style interview with From Software's game director Hidetaka Miyazaki centered around the company's succe...
If you're one of the many people who picked up a copy of Dark Souls prior to the availability of the Prepare to Die Edition, ...
You might remember a recent interview with Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki in which the Japanese developer admitted he ...
Metro is offering a rather interesting interview with Demon's Souls and Dark Souls game director Hidetaka Miyazaki, who muses...
We have rounded up a few additional reviews of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, a PC port of the original console title be...
We have rounded up a number of reviews that have been released recently for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, the complete ...
Though it was suggested that Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition would remain a PC exclusive, with the console versions of the...
PC Gamer is offering a review for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, currently only available on PC in the form of a rather ...
The Prepare to Die Edition of From Software's Dark Souls hit retail and digital shelves earlier today, and as you might have ...
I suppose most of our readers interested in the PC port of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (which also includes the Artori...
PC-oriented site bit-tech has had a chance to sit down with the upcoming Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, and have written...
A bunch of previews dedicated to the upcoming PC version of Dark Souls has been released today, and they're all courtesy of s...
Of all the games mentioned by Forbes in this choices and consequences focused editorial, I'd only really mention The Witcher ...
We rarely deal with the topic of localization here on GameBanshee, since a sizable portion of the titles we cover is already ...
With a release date set for this August, it was almost inevitable that Dark Souls' PC port, which includes the content of the...
A visit to our image gallery for FromSoftware's Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition will net you two pieces of concept art, el...
A DLC including the new content of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, the PC port slated for an August released, has been an...
Concerned by From Software's insistence that the forthcoming Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition on PC would be a "straight po...
Should you be interested in hearing more about the PC version of Dark Souls, dubbed Prepare to Die Edition, and its new conte...
Now that the embargo has lifted, more details and write-ups about Dark Souls; Prepare to Die Edition, the PC version of Dark ...
In case you're interested in having more information on the upcoming Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, the PC port of last ...
The news has already been out for a while already, but Destructoid is reporting that Namco Bandai has officially announced th...
Thanks to the report of a poster on NeoGAF (verified by one of the moderators) who had the chance to get his hands of an earl...
Dark Souls seems to have the undivided attention of Forbes' own videogame writers, as they dedicated to the title a third edi...
Forbes is publishing quite a few gaming-related editorials lately, and, more recently, seems to have focused its sights on Fr...
Forbes is offering an editorial that compares the methods of storytelling in Dark Souls and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, with...
Normally, I'm not a very big fan of mysterious announcements (particularly when they're tied to Facebook "like" campaigns), b...
Clearly annoyed by Slate's suggestion that 100-hour video games aren't worth our time, one of the editors at Edge Online has ...
I'm not sure I see many similarities besides the fact that both are Japanese-developed fantasy action-RPG with more or less o...
The folks at EDGE have a 2-page interview with From Software's creative director Hidetaka Miyazaki on Dark Souls, the spiritu...
While I wouldn't blame anyone that wasn't confident about the petition for a PC version of Dark Souls, it does seem like the ...
According to EGM, that cites a "source close to the project", a DLC for Dark Souls is planned to be released during the first...
If there's one highly-regarded RPG from 2011 that I wish I had spent more time with, it's From Software's Dark Souls. But my...
Things have been pretty quiet around the web during the holidays, but that hasn't stopped Eurogamer from putting together a s...
In a new "Why Role-Playing Games Dominated 2011" piece, IGN's Charles Onyett have rounded up a few of the stand-out RPG title...
You may remember this pre-release editorial from IGN that argued that Dark Souls will "eat Skyrim's face". Well, so does Game...
Various outlets are reporting that the latest patch for From Software's action-RPG Dark Souls has been released in Western te...
We have rounded up a new batch of reviews for From Software's console-exclusive action-RPG Dark Souls, which confirm the posi...
IGN has put together an interesting 2-pages article-style interview with From Software's director Hidetaka Miyazaki about his...
In the event that you're a console-owning action RPG enthusiast and don't own a copy of From Software's Dark Souls yet, then ...
From Software and Namco Bandai games have released the shipment numbers for Dark Souls, totaling 1.5 million worldwide, and b...
To fully understand the game's "Prepare to Die" catchphrase, one might shift their gaze over to this new two-minute "enemies"...
We have rounded up a few more reviews for From Software's action-RPG Dark Souls, and going by the words and expressions they ...
We have rounded up some more reviews for From Software's Dark Souls, a peculiar recent console-exclusive action-RPG that has ...
From Software seems to revel in the fact that Dark Souls and its predecessor are extremely difficult, as exemplified by this ...
Reviews for recently released titles haven't been particularly surprising lately, as this new batch of reviews for From Softw...
We have rounded up a few more reviews for From Software's console-exclusive action-RPG Dark Souls, which despite the definiti...
We have rounded up a few more reviews for From Software's Dark Souls, the overall consensus seemingly being very positive tow...
Eurogamer's Digital Foundry has put together a performance analysis for From Software's Dark Souls, in which the PlayStation ...
We have some more reviews for From Software's just-released unforgiving action-RPG Dark Souls, and they seem to follow the tr...
Namco Bandai fired over a press release a few minutes ago announcing that From Software's Dark Souls is now available across ...
We have another batch of reviews for From Software's hardcore action-RPG Dark Souls, and it's a far meatier batch this time, ...
A couple of reviews have popped up for From Software's successor to Demon's Souls, which became synonymous to 'extremely diff...
We've got used to Gamasutra's in-depth interviews, and this recent one they did with Namco Bandai's producer Kei Hirono on th...
Giant Bomb has conjured up another "quick look" video preview, and this time it's From Software's Dark Souls in the crosshair...
With Dark Souls hitting stores next week, Atlus and From Software sent over a new 65-second "All Saints Day" trailer that sho...
While no actual full review is available for now, we have a couple of 'reviews in progress' for those of you who are interest...
Because they believe that From Software's Dark Souls has Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim beaten "in all kinds of areas...
Atlus just fired over the good news that From Software's Dark Souls has gone gold and will be making its intended October 4th...
OXM UK is delivering a hands-on preview of Dark Souls this week, during which they describe why the action RPG follow-up is "...
We're really close to Dark Souls' release in Japan, so it's not surprising that From Software's title already received the re...
Considering the prevalence of Japanese titles and the fact that we don't cover JRPGs all that much, we have much less to cove...
The fourth and final installment to the Dark Souls "prologue" video series is here, and this time it combines the previous en...
The third entry to the Dark Souls prologue video series has been released, continuing the trend of presenting us with impress...
We'll still have to wait a while before getting our hands on From Software's highly anticipated spiritual successor to the cu...
Take a tour through From Software's headquarters in this new five-minute studio profile video that they released to help prom...
Today, we've been treated to the second installment in the series of prologue trailers that From Software has prepared for th...
Gamasutra managed to track down Namco Bandai's Andrew Davis for a brief article-style interview about their goals for Dark So...
The first in a series of storyline-revealing "prologue" trailers for From Software's Dark Souls is now available, though you'...
From Software's Demon's Souls follow-up has been treated to two more video previews, including a two-and-a-half-minute piece ...
The Silent Comedy provides the music for this new 78-second "Bartholomew" trailer for From Software's Dark Souls, which you'l...
The grim fantasy setting and more of the game's larger-than-life boss monsters are demonstrated in this new 75-second GamesCo...
Coincidence wants that we have two Japanese-themed news today, as Andriasang reports that the Japanese edition of From Softwa...
NowGamer has put together a brief hands-on preview piece for From Software's Dark Souls, and considering that one of the game...
Since the last time we checked, a few new articles on From Software's Dark Souls have surfaced on the net, and we round them ...
Another preview for From Software's Dark Souls surfaced recently online, courtesy of PAL Gaming Network, giving us good reaso...
A quick visit to our Dark Souls image gallery will be rewarded with fourteen new screenshots from the action RPG follow-up. ...
RPGFan offers us an in-depth preview on From Software's spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, the action-RPG Dark Souls, cour...
G4TV has a video interview with Namco Bandai's producer Kei Hirono, which tackles the similarities and differences between Fr...
While it may have been overshadowed by games with a bigger marketing budget, Dark Souls has received some consistent coverage...
There's certainly not a lack of coverage for From Software's action RPG Dark Souls from the latest E3, with a good number of ...
The spiritual successor to From Software's cult hit Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, has received some substantial coverage from th...
From Software's spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, has been showcased at E3, and GameTrailers has put online f...
Namco Bandi and From Software have treated us to a new two-minute teaser trailer for Dark Souls, and while the sweet-looking ...
Kotaku has put online a list of what they consider to be " the biggest role-playing games of E3 2011", which doesn't contain ...
In case case the continuous references from The Witcher 2's developers made you curious about From Software's efforts you may...
The latest to serve us a preview of From Software's Dark Souls is My Gaming, though it's unclear whether it's based on some h...
While the initial flood has all but died down, previews for From Software's action-RPG Dark Souls keep occasionally popping u...
From Software's follow-up to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, has been touted by the developers more than once as harder than his a...
From Software's Action RPG Dark Souls has often been reported as being difficult to the point of being unforgiving, which is ...
Eurogamer is the last to give the preview treatment to From Software's action RPG, remarking on the game's unforgiving diffic...
Most of the game press seems to have already put out their Dark Souls preview, and Gamespot now joins them with a one-page pi...
It's a pretty good time to be an RPG fan, as highlighted by the My Gaming editorial on (MMO)RPGs to look forward to in the co...
Another couple of preview of From Software's notoriously hardcore Action-RPG have been published recently.The Guardian.The ai...
In a conversation with CVG, producer Kei Horono has admitted that the prolonged Playstation Network downtime has caused some ...
It seems a preview embargo broke on the console exclusive action RPG by From Software, Dark Souls, as we have a bunch of prev...
The month of October has officially been nailed down for the release of From Software's Dark Souls, as identified in this new...
Should you find yourself looking forward to From Software's follow-up to Demon's Souls, you may want to pay a visit to our Da...
The April issue of Edge magazine has a 7-page preview of the upcoming action RPG sequel Dark Souls, and PSU brings us a few c...
Gaming Bolt provides us with a screenshot comparison between From Software's Demon's Souls and its upcoming spiritual success...
1up has a short Q&A sessions with director Hitaka Miyazaki, discussing the upcoming action RPG sequel Dark Souls, with many ...
From Software's recently unveiled Dark Souls has once again been given the preview treatment, and this time the summarizing a...
Japanese website 4Gamer.net has posted a lengthy interview with From Software's Hidetaka Miyazaki, and while I can't actually...
GameSpot had the chance to chat with Dark Souls development director Hidetaka Miyazaki about the action RPG's increased diffi...
From Software's recently revealed spiritual successor to Demon's Souls has been given the preview treatment by both Eurogamer...
Quite a bit of information about From Software's spiritual successor to Demon's Souls has come out of Namco's Ignite event, m...
To expand upon what we learned in Namco Bandai's Dark Souls announcement, the PlayStation Blog has conjured up this interview...
Given the commercial success enjoyed by Demon's Souls back in 2009, it wasn't much of a stretch to assume that From Software ...