{"id":62111,"date":"2014-03-07T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T10:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=62111"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:50:05","slug":"dark-souls-2-pc-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dark-souls-2-pc-release-date-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls 2 PC release date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC users can prepare to die again on <strong>April 25th<\/strong>, when the dark fantasy RPG <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/dark-souls-ii\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dark Souls II<\/a> is released. The news was released on the game&#8217;s official Facebook page, and if you pre-order the game you&#8217;ll get bonus items. It is released on Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 14th.<\/p>\n<p>When the original <a href=\"http:\/\/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition.en.softonic.com\/\">Dark Souls<\/a> was ported to PC, it got a lot of criticism from gamers for it&#8217;s relatively low resolution of 720p. Developer <strong>From Software<\/strong> isn&#8217;t making the same mistake twice. Dark Souls 2 on PC &#8216;will benefit from PC capabilities with increased texture resolution and an enhanced frame rate option&#8217;, and the controls have been carefully adapted for keyboard and mouse. The delay for the PC version is due to these enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-orders of the physical version will get the soundtrack and early access to &#8216;the Black Armour Weapon Set, while Steam pre-orders get the same plus digital art book and comic book.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls II is a role playing game (RPG), where you play an undead character on a journey to get rid of a curse. Like its predecessor, we expect it to be extremely challenging, with a bleak, lonely atmosphere. Despite the change in game director, it seems that the essence of what made Dark Souls so popular has been maintained for this sequel.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/why-were-addicted-to-really-hard-games\">Why we&#8217;re addicted to really hard games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/watch-a-new-nine-minute-dark-souls-ii-gameplay-video\">Watch a new nine minute Dark Souls II gameplay video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/gamescom-dark-souls-2-not-designed-for-co-op-with-friends\">Gamescom: Dark Souls 2 not designed for co-op with friends<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/darksouls\/posts\/623765257696522?stream_ref=1\">From Software<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC users can prepare to die again on April 25th, when the dark fantasy RPG Dark Souls II is released. The news was released on the game&#8217;s official Facebook page, and if you pre-order the game you&#8217;ll get bonus items. It is released on Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 14th. When the original Dark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dark-souls-2-pc-release-date-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark Souls 2 PC release date announced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-62111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331188,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62111\/revisions\/331188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62111"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=62111"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=62111"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=62111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}