Dark Souls: Prepare to Die for PC on Aug. 24

Dark Souls is definitely coming to PC as the Prepare to Die edition,

April 11, 2012 11:40 AM

We reported yesterday that Dark Souls was coming to the PC with added content. During their Global Gamers Day keynote, publisher Namco Bandai has confirmed that Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition will add a new chapter to the story and will release digitally worldwide on August 24.

From Software's Creative Director Hidetaka Miyazaki confirmed the game's title and release date. The new web site for the game also launched, revealing "an untold chapter in the world of Lordran where the player must stop the spread of darkness at all costs by facing and defeating the Dark Knight Artorias."

The new content includes such bosses as Artorias of Abyss and Chimera of Tomb, a PVP online matchmaking system for co-op or PVP, new areas Oolacile Tomb and Old Ruins, new enemies such as the Abyss Guard and Chained Prisoner, a new NPC named Hawkeye Gough, and plenty of new weapons and armor.

Apparently, that is just the beginning, with more details forthcoming next week.

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Dark Souls is definitely coming to PC as the Prepare to Die edition,
- valcan_s
  
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  April 11, 2012 11:46 AM
  
  OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My 680s have bonner \m/
  - Zollington
    
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    April 11, 2012 6:26 PM
    
    I got a one way ticket to bonneroo!!!!
- funnynamehere
  
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  April 11, 2012 12:06 PM
  
  Screw GFWL, but I will buy this for sure.
  - Liquid
    
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    April 11, 2012 12:34 PM
    
    Goddamnit, really? I guess I'll be playing alone then.
    - Vegtro
      
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      April 11, 2012 2:57 PM
      
      And then your save disappears...
- bryanvlo
  
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  April 11, 2012 12:49 PM
  
  Awesome I'm gagging for a hardcore RPG.
- RogerDandy
  
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  April 11, 2012 12:58 PM
  
  man I can't believe that they're adding new content as well.
  - Prinny God
    
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    April 11, 2012 1:06 PM
    
    All I was hoping for was a fix for the frame rate problems and the lagstabs, this is great!
    - usar naem
      
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      April 11, 2012 2:10 PM
      
      You think lagstabs were annoying? Wait until you get invaded by the auto-parry/riposte bots. Picking it up for the PC as well (I own it for both 360 and PS3 as well) but I might stick to Hollow form for the first few months...
      - OhSnapHighFive
        
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        April 12, 2012 5:41 AM
        
        I expect both this, and lvl 999 dudes
- Finchypoo
  
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  April 11, 2012 1:04 PM
  
  Now I feel better about being so lazy and never getting around to buying it for PS3. SO FUCKING EXCITED.
- JohnathanDoe
  
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  April 11, 2012 1:18 PM
  
  Going to buy it again, cannot wait, fucking love Dark Souls, I wish they'd bring over Demons Souls as well
- [deleted] 289681125
  
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  April 11, 2012 1:34 PM
  
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  - darthfusion
    
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    April 11, 2012 3:35 PM
    
    I'd like to see a Re-Release for the console too^^
  - David Craddock
    
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    April 11, 2012 9:35 PM
    
    Yeah, I'm going to snag the PC version because I want to support Namco/From supporting PC gamers, but I think they should make the new content available to owners of the console game (because I'd buy it as DLC for my PS3 version).
- rottdcorpse
  
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  April 11, 2012 2:20 PM
  
  I've heard a lot about this, supposed to be awesome. Can't wait.
- Kartman013
  
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  April 11, 2012 2:25 PM
  
  Brutal, unforgiving, spend hours defeating a foe only to find a more difficult one 'round the next corner. Let the smashing of keyboards begin (at least they're cheaper to replace than game controllers!).... will be amazing on PC.
- pyide
  
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  April 11, 2012 2:51 PM
  
  Why the shit did they go with GFWL? Why is that still a thing that exists on PC?
  - rottdcorpse
    
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    April 11, 2012 2:58 PM
    
    Because Microsoft are rich...richer than any development studio going...
    
    GFWL is an absolute travesty, designed by a console user (it actually was, go look it up) who doesnt actually game on PC and knows exactly shit one about PC Gaming.
    
    Total retard.
  - omnova
    
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    April 11, 2012 3:50 PM
    
    Minimal effort to port the 360 version.
    - pyide
      
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      April 11, 2012 4:46 PM
      
      Yeah, that was simple conclusion I reached after seeing walker270's post in the other thread earlier http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=27997699
      
      Hope it doesn't mean the rest of the port will suffer from this minimal effortitis.
- tripkebab
  
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  April 11, 2012 2:55 PM
  
  mmmm Cant wait
- Johnny Law
  
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  April 11, 2012 2:56 PM
  
  This... pleases me.
  
  *taps fingertips together meditatively*
- Techy007
  
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  April 11, 2012 3:25 PM
  
  MY DICK IS NOW DIAMONDS.
- [deleted] 1310079541
  
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  April 11, 2012 3:48 PM
  
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- AxeMan808
  
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  April 11, 2012 4:17 PM
  
  I can see myself buying this. And the myself that's buying it sees the myself waiting behind a bush to rob myself of it.
- Dr_Cube
  
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  April 11, 2012 4:34 PM
  
  I will break my aversion to GFWL for this game. If ever there was a port that needed to be supported, this is it. I am prepared to die.
- Ebu
  
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  April 11, 2012 4:42 PM
  
  I'm holding out for the PS Vita version.
- scary_monster
  
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  April 11, 2012 5:34 PM
  
  Probably the most overrated game in the history of games. Watched some youtube gameplay videos and it looks like a horrible game. I don't get it :(
  - Alice O'Connor
    
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    April 11, 2012 5:35 PM
    
    Oh, well if you've watched some Youtube videos...
    - David Craddock
      
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      April 11, 2012 6:49 PM
      
      I read a few screenshot captions and immediately wrote it off.
      - galewind
        
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        April 11, 2012 7:39 PM
        
        I read a comment on a photo and determined it isn't worth my time.
        
        aasyranth
        
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        April 11, 2012 7:43 PM
        
        I read galewind's comment about reading a comment on a photo, and decided that the game is worthless.
  - Brotisbrotle
    
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    April 11, 2012 7:41 PM
    
    That's like judging a book by its cover, unless its a Giant Bomb Quick Look that is :P
  - Moonbase Commander
    
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    April 11, 2012 7:57 PM
    
    Have you ever considered that the people who actually played the game might have a better basis of judgement? That you might, oh, I don't know, be wrong in your guess?
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    April 11, 2012 8:09 PM
    
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    - NastyJack
      
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      April 11, 2012 8:18 PM
      
      True dat.
  - Arcanum
    
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    April 11, 2012 8:14 PM
    
    I think it's a bit overrated, but you really don't know what you're talking about.
  - mindmann
    
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    April 11, 2012 9:16 PM
    
    A friend told me that katamari damacy is just rolling a ball around. how could that be fun at all? it probably sucks. doesn't even sound like it has a point.
    - Moonbase Commander
      
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      April 11, 2012 9:23 PM
      
      NA NAAAAAAAAAAAAA NA NA NA NA NAAAAA KATAMARI DAMASHEEEEE
  - Rehevkor
    
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    April 12, 2012 5:30 AM
    
    You suck.
  - OhSnapHighFive
    
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    April 12, 2012 5:36 AM
    
    lol what is this? post a shitty comment and then leave the discussion?
  - scary_monster
    
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    April 12, 2012 4:27 PM
    
    I dunno. If I had watched those gameplay videos before I had heard all the hype about this game I would have just stopped the video and never looked back at the game again. It's not a game that you see and makes you say 'I must have this game!' Nothing I have seen has drew me in to this game at all.
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  April 11, 2012 7:41 PM
  
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  - NastyJack
    
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    April 11, 2012 8:19 PM
    
    Not really since it's not the greatest looking game and if you wanted to play it that bad you could always buy a console for alot less money.
    - David Craddock
      
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      April 11, 2012 9:36 PM
      
      The game looks outdated in some areas like Blighttown, but I found Anor Londo and the backdrops in other places like Undead Burg breathtaking.
- silverback1138
  
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  April 11, 2012 7:59 PM
  
  Day One buy for PC.
- derelict515
  
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  April 11, 2012 8:40 PM
  
  I don't really want to re-buy and replay this from 0 but new bosses means I will :( I'd kinda rather finally get to NG+ on the 360
- jssap
  
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  April 12, 2012 5:23 AM
  
  If they use GFWL, I wont buy this game.
- jssap
  
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  April 12, 2012 5:23 AM
  
  If they use GFWL, I wont buy this game.
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    April 12, 2012 5:32 AM
    
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  - Rehevkor
    
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    April 12, 2012 5:34 AM
    
    Where are people getting the idea that this uses GFWL? I don't see any reference to it in the article, in the video, or on the official site.
    - OhSnapHighFive
      
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      April 12, 2012 5:37 AM
      
      RPS reported that it will be using GFWL, and there's an image on the Facebook page for the game showing the cover with GFWL clearly printed on the box.
      
      also, this petition now exists:
      http://www.change.org/petitions/namco-bandai-and-from-software-release-dark-souls-pc-edition-without-games-for-windows-live
      - OhSnapHighFive
        
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        April 12, 2012 5:39 AM
        
        RPS article mentioning GFWL
        http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/11/prepare-for-gfwl-in-dark-souls-prepare-to-die/
        
        Facebook image of cover from the Dark Souls Facebook page:
        https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=305259969547054&set=a.305255222880862.71295.119869331419453&type=1&theater
- My Documents
  
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  April 12, 2012 10:42 AM
  
  BASED GOD IS MY COPILOT