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PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 ‘Dark Souls II’ Servers to Shut Down This March
There are certainties in life: death, taxes, and the servers being shut down for your Soulslike. Unfortunately for Dark Souls II players on PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, From Software will be shutting down those servers in the new year on March 31.
The developer made the announcement late last week on their official site. “As of Sunday 31st March 2024, online services for Dark Souls II (PS3, Xbox 360) will be terminated due to deterioration of the game servers.” As a result, asynchronous online elements including shades, bloodstains and messages will no longer function. The bigger news is that the multiplayer elements such as co-op play, invasions and dueling will also cease to function.
For Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players, you don’t need to worry, as those servers will remain active.
It’s not the first time that fans of the developer’s Soulslike games have had the servers shut down. Atlus shut down the original Demon’s Souls PlayStation 3 servers back in 2018 (though thanks to emulation, fans are able to have some semblance of functionality), while Namco Bandai had the original Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition servers shut down last year in favour of the remastered version of the game.
Meanwhile, modern Soulslike fans will be waiting on news in the new year from From Software regarding the upcoming “Shadow of the Erdtree” Expansion for Elden Ring, which is a rumoured February release.
Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.
Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”
Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.
And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.
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