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Gaming News September 5, 2026, 09:55 AMFromSoftware announced that The Duskbloods will feature the studio's first overt romance between players, and it will do so in combat. The unreleased Nintendo Switch 2 game is scheduled for 2026, and director Hidetaka Miyazaki says the idea is less about traditional romance than about trust.
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Gaming News September 4, 2026, 02:23 PMFromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has discussed the studio's approach to developing new games. According to him, the team deliberately avoids following a fixed formula or set of rules, as doing so could eventually make its projects too conservative and repetitive.
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Gaming News August 27, 2026, 03:54 PMElden Ring has received patch 1.17, which adds support for the Tarnished Pack DLC and introduces a number of balance changes. The update was released on August 27, one day ahead of the expansion's launch.
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Gaming News August 24, 2026, 05:34 PMFromSoftware has revealed an unexpected result from the closed network test for The Duskbloods. According to producer Yasuhiro Kitao, the number of applications to participate in the test was higher than it was for Elden Ring Nightreign.
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A Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice-Themed Xbox One X Is Listed on eBay for Nearly a Million Rubles — Only 12 Consoles Like It Exist in the World
Gaming News August 23, 2026, 01:17 PMOne of twelve custom Xbox One X consoles made for the launch of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has surfaced on eBay. Seller neoframe is asking $11,999 for the 1TB console, roughly 995,000 rubles at the Central Bank exchange rate as of August 22. In the listing, though, he notes he's open to considering offers. There's already public interest: within a day, the listing had drawn over three thousand views, with nine people adding it to their watch list. -
Dark Souls Remastered Has Been Turned Into a Sitcom — a Mod Adds a Laugh Track That Cackles at Every Death
Gaming News August 22, 2026, 03:47 PMEvery death in Dark Souls Remastered now comes with laughter from an invisible audience. Modder jbg0801 uploaded the DSR Sitcom Mod to Nexus Mods, stitching canned studio audience reactions into the game: the crowd laughs, gasps, whistles, and applauds at nearly everything the player does. Take a hit from a knight — a chuckle. Fall off a bridge into a pit in the Undead Burg — a round of applause. The mod works with the PC remaster, installs in about a minute, and had already reached its third version within the first day of release. -
Gaming News August 22, 2026, 10:34 AMKadokawa shared a new excerpt from Sekiro: No Defeat, the anime adaptation of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. The clip arrives just ahead of the Japanese premiere, which is set for September 4 and will run in limited theaters for three weeks, and it puts Gyobu Masataka Oniwa in the spotlight.
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Gaming News August 21, 2026, 05:43 PMThe launch of the The Duskbloods network test has gone off the rails: FromSoftware shut down the first session on launch day due to server issues, while some participants were unable to get past the main menu because of login errors.
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Gaming News August 21, 2026, 12:02 PMHidetaka Miyazaki, president of FromSoftware and the creator of Dark Souls and Elden Ring, explained why The Duskbloods became a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive. The reason, in his words, isn't just a matter of contracts: Nintendo turned out to have a genuinely fresh and interesting vision for how to realize the project. There was also a purely technical factor — the new console eliminated problems the team had run into when trying to build the game for the original Switch.
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Gaming News August 21, 2026, 11:41 AMThe Duskbloods grew out of ideas FromSoftware could not fit into Dark Souls or Demon's Souls, and Hidetaka Miyazaki said that is why the project was built around a different structure from the start. The FromSoftware president and game director also said the game is due out in 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2.
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Gaming News August 21, 2026, 12:09 AMThe Duskbloods still has no official release date. Nintendo stated that the September 24 date circulating in the press was a mistake, and that the company has no information about a release timeframe at all.
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Gaming News August 20, 2026, 11:46 PMHidetaka Miyazaki has explicitly stated that the development of The Duskbloods does not represent a shift in FromSoftware's long-term strategy, confirming that the studio remains firmly focused on single-player experiences. According to him, this upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 online title is an exception to the rule rather than a new permanent direction for the company.
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Gaming News August 18, 2026, 11:43 PMThe Duskbloods Client Is Already Downloadable — But FromSoftware's Test Won't Open Until August 21
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Gaming News August 18, 2026, 11:25 PMA leak has surfaced ahead of the closed network test for The Duskbloods, reportedly outlining 14 character classes for FromSoftware's upcoming multiplayer action game. The game is set to launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026, and Nintendo of America has already uploaded the official video that describes it as a PvPvE multiplayer action game.
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Gaming News August 8, 2026, 09:53 AMFromSoftware researcher Lance McDonald has found an early internal presentation of Demon's Souls: in it, the game looked noticeably different from the version that shipped at launch.
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Gaming News August 7, 2026, 06:23 PMFromSoftware has begun notifying applicants about the results of the closed network test for The Duskbloods. The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 title is the latest game from Hidetaka Miyazaki, and the first acceptance notices began going out today, August 7, 2026. Players have already shared what the confirmation message looks like.
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Gaming News July 24, 2026, 05:46 PMAlongside its August 28, 2026 launch on Nintendo Switch 2, Elden Ring Tarnished Edition will add two new character classes and bring the extra content to PC and other platforms as a paid expansion on the same day.
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A 74-year-old gamer earned the Elden Ring platinum trophy after 1,075 hours — and two years ago he pulled off something even harder
Gaming News July 22, 2026, 11:50 PMA player known in the Elden Ring community as The Elder Lord shared on a forum that at 74 years old, he collected all 42 PlayStation trophies and earned the platinum. It took him around 1,075 hours — and that's on PlayStation alone, not counting a couple of playthroughs on Xbox Series X. -
Gaming News July 15, 2026, 06:37 PMFromSoftware announced a closed network test for The Duskbloods on Nintendo Switch 2, with sessions running from August 21 to August 24, 2026. The game is still unreleased, but Nintendo says it will launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.
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Gaming News July 6, 2026, 04:04 PMHidetaka Miyazaki, the acclaimed director of Elden Ring and president of FromSoftware, has openly admitted that he considers his understanding of games to be "shallow" compared to other veterans in the industry. Despite the worldwide acclaim and influence of his projects, Miyazaki says he avoids video interviews and public discussions because he feels unqualified to speak about games on a deeper level.
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