It was only a matter of time. You’ve been tucking cash under your virtual mattress, and now’s the time to go buck wild. It’s worth remembering that unlike in the past, Steam sale prices are now set in stone. There aren’t any surprises like Flash Deals to sit and wait at your keyboard for. The sale goes until January 4, so you can always load your Steam Wishlist up now and drop the cash...
The Dark Souls series has sold just over 8.5 million copies, and the PC has been a crucial platform for the property. A presentation by From Software, reported by Famitsu and relayed via NeoGAF, showed the following: The original Dark Souls has sold 2,828,000 units worldwide, while Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition has sold 2,765,000 units. According to SteamSpy, about 2 million of...
A long-running glitch in the PC version of Dark Souls II is finally getting patched, and digital swords across the land of Majula are thankful for it. Weapon degradation is an important part of Dark Souls. Managing your weapons, remembering to take care of them, and keeping a backup in your pack are all part of the deal when you’re adventuring in one of these games. You can get a...
Bandai Namco has shared a few sales figures and financial results of a few of its recent biggest hits at a Global Gamers Day event. First up was last year’s big action RPG Dark Souls II, a game which set the record straight about niche games being a hit on the video game market. The brutal action game crushed the souls of 2.5 million gamers worldwide over the course of a year, and the...
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is officially out in the wild. This is an updated version of Dark Souls II that supposedly matches what From Software had initially had in mind for the game graphically before they had to downgrade things in order to get it running well on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Now, Scholar of the First Sin is out, and it’s available as a DirectX 11 and...
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is going live this week on Steam, and the console versions are scheduled to follow next week on April 7. The “Game of the Year Edition”-esque upgrade comes with a whole host of payment options and other details that make it one complicated piece of software to buy into. First we have the PC version. The DirectX 11 version will come with...
Most Dark Souls fans are probably on the edge of their seats waiting for the release of Bloodborne next week, but let’s not forget that Dark Souls II will be getting a much needed definitive version on consoles the following week on April 2. Which one will you be diving into first? Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin will be the highest quality release of the game on consoles to-...
Dark Souls II and I got off on a bit of a wrong foot. Between the playable demo at TGS 2013 and the actual retail release, From Software was forced to heavily compromise the final product's graphics to allow it to run properly on the aging PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Without prior warning of this, my anticipation came crashing down, and it created a bit of a hurdle in the way of my...
Dark Souls fans have all kinds of things to look forward to this spring. Bloodborne releases on March 24, of course, but that's not all. From Software's next-gen upgrade of Dark Souls II follows not even a month later. The game, coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, will run at 1080p and 60fps on all three versions. IGN's comparison video shows off the much-improved frame...
“Forlorn Hope.” I can’t think of a better title for a trailer aimed at advertising the remaster of Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. I’m hoping that it looks as gorgeous as the TGS 2013 demo made it look, but I’m forlorn in knowing that those dreams have long since faded. At any rate, here is a new trailer for the upgrade. Those who already own Dark Souls II on the PC,...