14 DAY TRIAL // The developers at From Software and publisher Namco Bandai have begun teasing a big new announcement linked to their dark fantasy epic Dark Souls, with some suggesting that they are getting ready to talk about the PC version of the game.
A number of readers have managed to spot a new ad for Dark Souls in the most recent edition of the PC Power Play magazine, and its existence can only be justified if the PC gaming crowd will at some point be able to buy Dark Souls.
The teaser uses the tagline “You Died,” which is a rather good distillation of the way Dark Souls tends to treat gamers.
At the same time the Public Relations department at publisher Namco Bandai has begun teasing a new announcement in Facebook messages and Twitter messages from the official account.
There’s a new app for the game on the social service which invites gamers to add their own Like in order to break down a wall that hides a big announcement.
More than 6 thousand gamers have so far Liked the page, but no clear breach seems to have been made and it is not clear how many more Likes the publisher is interested in getting.
Namco Bandai has been asked directly by PC gamers to port Dark Souls, which has so far only been offered on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, and the developers at From Software have repeatedly said that any port decision lies with the publisher.
The developers have also ruled out the potential for an expansion by saying that the game was complete on launch and that they were only interested in creating a successor for the game.
Since it was launched in late 2011, Dark Souls has managed to capture an audience thanks to its ruthless nature and solid world building.