DARK SOULS™ III News

After 7 months, Dark Souls 3 is back online

fter a quiet seven months for Dark Souls 3 PvPers, the PC servers have finally whirred back to life today, reviving the game's online features which have lain dormant since the discovery of a serious security vulnerability in the game's code back in January...
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Online features for the PC version of Dark Souls III have been reactivated.

We are working to restore these features for all other Dark Souls titles and will inform you when they are back in service.

[h3]Thank you once more for your patience and support.[/h3]

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Suffer in style with this mod that brings Devil May Cry combat to Dark Souls 3

Dark Souls 3 is a bit of a drag, right? It's all foreboding this, doomsaying that, and long stretches of grey sky that terminate in wan, dispirited horizons. I bet not a single one of its gibbering inhabitants has ever done anything cool like smoke and ride a motorcycle. They're all too busy picking through the ashes of a dead kingdom and feeling sorry for themselves...
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After 183 days offline, Dark Souls 3 shows signs of life

Souls series dataminer Lance McDonald was the first to spot a new Dark Souls 3 update for Steam users with access to the game's debug branches, via SteamDB. Presumably it’s for testing the long-awaited return of the game's online features...
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Elden Ring dev is "actively working" on Dark Souls PvP fix

Elden Ring developer FromSoftware is apparently "actively working" on a Dark Souls PvP fix, with the goal of bringing the RPG game's servers back online "as soon as possible" - according to publisher Bandai Namco, at least.

Back in January, there was some panic in the Dark Souls multiplayer community as a new security exploit was discovered that, reportedly, could let hackers take over a user's PC - all through playing Dark Souls III PvP and having the hacker invade the user's game. Bandai Namco took action and "temporarily deactivated" all Dark Souls servers on PC, for all three games in the series, and made sure that the exploit wasn't present in Elden Ring.

Now, four months after the servers were shut down, a concerned player on Reddit got in touch with the publisher and was told that "the developers are actively working on resolving the issue" - with the goal of "re-launching the Dark Souls servers for PC as soon as possible". The bad news is that Bandai Namco still doesn't have an estimate of when this will actually happen.

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