In addition to the fight against the Smelter Demon in the base Dark Souls 2 world, the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC also introduced a rework of the boss that continues to elevate the design.

From Hidetaka Miyazaki’s current body of works, it’s pretty prevalent ... in an interview with IGN, praised the design ideas in Dark Souls 2 for influencing some of the decisions in Elden ...

From Software released Dark Souls II Design Works, a massive book covering the art production of Dark Souls II and its DLC trilogy, The Lost Crowns. For now, it's only available in Japanese.

But like the original, no death was ever in vain. Each moment of failure taught me more about how Dark Souls II works that helped me get better. From learning to exploit enemy attack patterns to ...

Namco Bandai is offering fans the chance to design a shield to appear in Dark Souls II. Interested artists can download a blank shield template and submit up to three designs through the Shield ...

A few months ago, Namco Bandai and From Software put together a design contest in which would-be players of Dark Souls 2 could design shields for implementation into the game. The contest was ...

Here’s how it works. In 2012, Peter "Durante" Thoman ... We asked Durante to analyze the PC port of Dark Souls 2 in a series of articles. He also modded the game. The image above is an in ...

While an American contest has not yet been announced, the Dark Souls II design-your-own shield contest is already underway in Japan, and will run until the 14th of May. A similar contest was held ...

Most popular pick is a tribute to community favorite EpicNameBro. Earlier today, we shared with you the winners of the Dark Souls 2 Shield Design Contest, as selected by FROM SOFTWARE. Now, we ...

Here’s how it works. Dark Souls 2 will be arriving on consoles in March ... PC Gamer: Last year you conducted a contest that let fans design a shield to appear in the game.

If you were disappointed by the less-than-exemplary PC port of the original Dark Souls, you'll be glad to know that Dark Souls II for the PC ... the fantastic art design short.