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Dark Souls 3 joins the growing list of games with fun Unreal Engine 5 mockups
Armored Core 6 developer says Dark Souls and Elden Ring “changed us”
It may have been ten years, but the classic FromSoftware mecha and robot game series is back with Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, and a producer at the studio has talked about how the experience of making soulslike games, from Dark Souls to Sekiro and Elden Ring, has “changed” the team and its level of experience, making this Armored Core game the best it can be.
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In a mad display of devotion, these gamers are fighting Souls series bosses over and over again until Elden Ring DLC is announced
Almost a year after Elden Ring changed everything, there’s never been a better time to return to Dark Souls
Everything dies. That’s one of the unavoidable truths of the universe: everything that is given life must also give over to death. It’s true of us frail, transient humans, and it’s true of the very best video games ever made, too. Everything dies, no matter how important it once was.
And 11 years is a long time in this industry. It’s a yawning gulf, an epoch. It feels like so much longer ago that Dark Souls was released – when the meteoric success of FromSoft’s first mainstream success began casting a shadow over the rest of the gaming industry forever. On a quiet September afternoon in 2011, FromSoft changed the course of gaming history forever, and built on the foundations of its own, proprietary genre: the Souls-like.
Years after the game’s debut, there’s no shortage of veritable tomes published on the title – detailed descriptions of how it came to be, portfolios of art from its development, dispatches from the frontlines of its making, all revered in the same way that interviews with Scorsese are worshipped by cinephiles and students of the silver screen. But games are mysterious things. Unlike films, they can rarely be enjoyed completely out of context of their release – so much of the actual experience is knitted into playing the game ‘live’; enjoying it with other people and having your experience galvanised by the actions of friends (or foes) loading into the world at the same time as you.
This ambitious Dark Souls 3 total conversion will remix the game and add all-new content
Dark Souls event makes FromSoftware fans put down Elden Ring
If, like me, you only need the slightest excuse to dive back into Dark Souls and its bleak yet beautiful world of Lordran, I’m here to tell you now is a perfect time. The FromSoftware smash hit, and its follow-ups, have always taken a unique swing at the multiplayer game genre. Players are flooding back to the original Dark Souls for a limited time in an effort to repopulate the unique messaging system, PvP, and co-op mechanics as though the game was at the height of its popularity.
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Dark Souls 3 prequel mod Archthrones looks like a full DLC
A massive Dark Souls 3 mod called Archthrones has a new video out that includes a hefty 15 minutes’ worth of gameplay. The overhaul mod for FromSoftware’s 2016 RPG game pulls liberally from other titles in From’s catalogue, including Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. The effect is remarkable: while it’s a mod created by fans, it looks for all the world like an official expansion.
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