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Prepare to Die on August 24th - Dark Souls confirmed for PC!

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Posted 10:14am 12/04/12 by:
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In some sad news for those of you who have yet to check out the incredible Demon's Souls, the servers are shutting down on May 31st - taking notes and ghosts and phantoms with them. But when they die, and when they're gone, there'll be one child born into this world to carry on (to carry on) - with Namco Bandai confirming Dark Souls' PC release date for August 24th.

The PC release will be using Games For Windows Live - which will no doubt upset some - but it will feature two additional bosses over the console versions - so swings and roundabouts. You can check out the official announcement trailer embedded below, or you can watch it in our videos library - going full screen for HD of course. Are you excited? I'm excited. I've already played the game to death and I'm excited.

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Comments on this Article

Thu 12 Apr 12, 11:29am

Phyaran
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 12, 11:29am

**** GFWL. Spent the past 3 days trying to get it working and it still doesn't.

Thu 12 Apr 12, 1:54pm

Audi
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 12, 1:54pm

Is this game brutally hard?

Thu 12 Apr 12, 1:55pm

hoax86
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 12, 1:55pm

I predict three days before it is unplayable due to hackers with invincible characters and one-hit-kill weapons.

Thu 12 Apr 12, 2:36pm

Gung-ho
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 12, 2:36pm

Games for Windows Live - YUCK but better than no game at all.

If the port goes as I imagine it (well when I considered how Demon's Souls would port to PC since to me it really felt like a PC game) it should actually be easier on the PC due to better controls. How much easier? Well not a lot; only to the extent that you should be able to pull things off more naturally.

Thu 12 Apr 12, 2:50pm

Junglist
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 12, 2:50pm

YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BUDDY

Thu 12 Apr 12, 4:56pm

Toots
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 12, 4:56pm

i love console ports

Thu 12 Apr 12, 7:44pm

Hotcakes
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 12, 7:44pm

Why the **** would you do that to this game, Namco? Jesus Christ.

Fri 13 Apr 12, 12:12am

Phyaran
Posted: Fri 13 Apr 12, 12:12am

Because it's profitable?

Fri 13 Apr 12, 8:19am

limimi
Posted: Fri 13 Apr 12, 8:19am

I think he means GFWL. Given From Software's PC past, I can't imagine anyone being upset with them bringing Dark Souls to the PC

Sun 15 Apr 12, 7:13pm

Hotcakes
Posted: Sun 15 Apr 12, 7:13pm

Indeed. Anyway I since realised GFWL integration basically means Namco is doing a straight port from the Xbox Live networking code, so I guess that makes sense. If they went for new net code they probably would have gone Steamworks anyway so I still wouldn't end up buying it. No one does proper net code any more. Sigh.

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