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Dark Souls Screens and Gameplay Trailer

By Roy | Published: February 2, 2011
Today the first Western trailer for FromSoftware’s Dark Souls was released to the public.  It features a combination of cut-scenes and actual gameplay, which looks quite intense.  In addition to this, a slew of screens featured in the recent Famitsu article were released online. My first thought is that the game looks largely more colorful and [...]
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Project Dark’s Official Name Revealed: Dark Souls

By Roy | Published: February 1, 2011
A leak of this week’s Famitsu magazine has revealed details concerning the new project by the team who worked on Demon’s Souls.  First off, the former codename of Project Dark has been dropped for the official name, which is Dark Souls.  According to the article the game will share the same theme of its predecessor: [...]
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Project Dark Tokyo Game Show Trailer

By Roy | Published: September 17, 2010
The brief trailer of From Software’s tentatively titled Project Dark which was shown at Tokyo Game Show has made its way onto the web.  It doesn’t show much, but it’s quite clear that Demon’s Souls is a huge inspiration to this project. After a few captions about fire and darkness, we see some scenes of gameplay.  [...]
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Is From Software’s Project Dark the Next Demon’s Souls?

By Roy | Published: September 16, 2010
Today Bandai Namco Games and From Software announced a project they are working on tentatively titled Project Dark.  Their press release makes no direct mention of Demon’s Souls, however From Software’s CEO Naotoshi Jin (AKA Naotoshi Zin) is mentioned in the press release.  Naotoshi was the executive producer of the King’s Field series and supervisor [...]
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Fragile Dreams: Goodbye Ruins of the Moon Review

By Roy | Published: April 15, 2010
I followed the development of Fragile: Goodbye Ruins of the Moon carefully in Japan from its early stages to its release.  The game’s combination of post-apocalyptic setting combined with Japanese aesthetic felt as though it was tailored to my unique tastes.  Upon its surprising release in the West, I found that it received little press [...]
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