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Before Dark Souls, FromSoftware’s Forgotten PS1 Horror Game Was a Haunting Exercise in Empathy
FromSoft’s Echo Night asks players to bring peace to the dead.
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Went Through a Slower Dark Souls-Style Iteration During Development
Evil Empire's Ben Laulan revealed that another iteration involved making the game too fast paced in the vein of roguelite title Dead Cells.
Castlevania Belmont's Curse once had a Dark Souls "vibe," but it was "just too hard"
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has released to critical acclaim, but there was a point in development where it was shaping up to be a very different game, and one I'd wager wouldn't have scored nearly as well with critics or fans of Konami's beloved series. Talking to PCGamesN, Evil Empire head of...
Castlevania Belmont's Curse once had a Dark Souls "vibe," but it was "just too hard"
So close to a portrait of ruin
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Castlevania Belmont's Curse swung between Dark Souls and Dead Cells to find the form that "feels good in your hands"
Evil Empire discusses how it reached the final form of Castlevania Belmont’s Curse, with experiments ranging from Dark Souls to Dead Cells.
Someone Is Splicing Together Dark Souls And Twilight Princess - The Best Bit? It Isn't Vibecoded
You can try Twilight Souls right now for free with a playable demo out now.
Modder Jabe Games Grafts Dark Souls Combat Onto Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, Complete With Rolls, I-Frames, and Corpse Runs
Have you ever dreamed of adding Soulslike combat to Blizzard's World of Warcraft? That's precisely the purpose of WoW Souls, a single player prototype in development by modder Jabe Games. This week, the modder published two videos demonstrating the prototype running in Northshire Valley, the...
Modder is rebuilding all of Dark Souls inside Zelda: Twilight Princess
A modder is rebuilding Dark Souls inside Zelda: Twilight Princess, with a free demo letting Link explore Lordran and battle its enemies.
The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Souls Unveiled
One of the greatest Legend of Zelda games of all time is the GameCube and subsequent Wii classic, Twilight Princess. It showcased a much darker, more mature version of Link that we rarely get to see, one trapped in a nightmarish, gothic world that felt like a precursor to the likes of Dark Souls....
New action game mixes Dark SoDark Souls meets John Wick in new action game for PS5 and Steamuls and John Wick
S-Game's new action RPG introduces the world to "kungfupunk"
Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring are "North Stars" for Tencent as it eyes next Larian or FromSoftware
"It was Demon's Souls into Dark Souls into Bloodborne and then finally into Elden Ring"
Dark Souls: 6 Characters Stronger Than Artorias, Ranked
Knight Artorias ranks as Dark Souls' most beloved and hardest boss, but a few other characters in the game could utterly destroy him.
This FromSoft-Inspired RPG Is Packed With Retro King's Field Soul
DarkSoul, that is. Has all of that Elden Ring on Switch 2 got you craving some retro FromSoft? And we mean real retro FromSoft, none of your new-fangled Demon's or Dark Souls nonsense, but something more old-school, like King's Field? Well, Queen's Domain might be right up your street. This is a...
Dark Souls 2 Shadow Drops Co-Op Up to 6 Players
Dark Souls 2 just received a major multiplayer overhaul mod that lets as many as six players stay seamlessly connected throughout the entire game. FromSoftware's Dark Souls 2 originally used the standard Soulslike summoning system, which regularly separates co-op partners after bosses, deaths, and...
Dark Souls 2 Shadow Drops Co-Op Up to 6 Players
More than a decade after launch, Dark Souls 2 fans have a new way to experience the RPG with up to 6 players through seamless co-op.
Dark Souls 2 can now be played in its entirety with drop-in, drop-out co-op, thanks to its own seamless multiplayer mod
The popular - and always appreciated - seamless co-op mod has finally come to Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, the only game of the trilogy to have spent years without it. Mod creator Yui, who's responsible for the seamless co-op mods for Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring and...
After 12 years, Dark Souls 2 is finally playable in co-op without interruptions
Community maestro Yui made similar mods for Elden Ring and the original Dark Souls.
Not Everything Needs To Be A Soulslike, And Onimusha: Way Of The Sword Shows Why
In 2011, Dark Souls let players praise the sun, and that sun cast a shadow long enough to engulf the whole industry. The action-RPG--boosted by its spiritual predecessor, Demon’s Souls--kickstarted a new subgenre with a refreshing level of boldness that made it unignorable for any developer making...
Dungeon Crawler Carl Meets Dark Souls In Brutal Medieval Soulslike
Dungeon Crawler Carl has become a global phenomenon in the modern fantasy and LitRPG space, with Matt Dinniman's deadly adventure becoming one of the genre's biggest success stories. Carl's journey is built around brutal encounters, RPG-style systems and progression, tough bosses, and the lingering...
Dark Souls 2 Seamless Co-Op Mod Is Available for Download
Modder ‘Yui’ has just released the Seamless Co-Op Mod for Dark Souls 2. This mod allows you to play with friends throughout the entirety of the game with no restrictions. As the modder noted, with this, it’s theoretically possible to play the game from the tutorial up to the final boss completely...
Opinion: I Think I'm Missing Something About Stellar Blade On Switch 2
Not quite landing. I’ve been hearing a lot of hype around Stellar Blade - that is when fans haven’t been lamenting the sequel’s awful AI music video the creators decided was a good idea. I’d heard it was Bayonetta meets Dark Souls, with flashy, acrobatic movement, and carefully considered combat...
Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op mod is out now in alpha form, paving the way for more boss battering with mates
The latest FromSoft game multiplayer mod is here, with Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op finally out in the wild. Modder Yui, maker of similar and very popular mods for Elden Ring, Nightreign, and the original Dark Souls, has poured a year and a bit of work into their latest creation. Read more
The best Elden Ring mod is coming to the worst Dark Souls game tomorrow, and the new seamless co-op also has prox chat and quality-of-life fixes
Modder Yui has become a legend in the FromSoftware community after developing seamless co-op mods for Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls 3. But don't think the middle entry in the series is dodging a similar treatment, even with its controversial reputation among the fandom. Dark Souls 2...
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