{"id":65571,"date":"2014-06-05T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65571"},"modified":"2014-06-05T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:15:54","slug":"dark-souls-2-gets-three-part-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65571-dark-souls-2-gets-three-part-dlc","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls 2 gets three-part DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who crave death again and again and again, Namco Bandai\u00a0has announced a three-part DLC for Dark Souls 2, titled The Lost Crowns trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>The trilogy is set in new areas with new enemies and bosses to battle and will kick off with Crown of the Sunken King &#8211; due for release on 22 July 2014 for PC and Xbox 360. The PS3 version will come online the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 2,\u00a0Crown of the Old Iron King, launches on 26 and 27 August, while part three &#8211; Crown of the Ivory King &#8211; is scheduled for a 23 and 24 September release.<\/p>\n<p>The thrust of the new trilogy is that you must reclaim three crowns owned by Drangleic&#8217;s King Vendrick. Crown of the Sunken King will be set in an expansive underground lair littered with stepped pyramids, according to publishers\u00a0Namco Bandai, who added that it is &#8220;one of the more difficult levels&#8221; developed for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Crown of the Old Iron King is set in a &#8220;massive tower&#8221; and players must navigate paths through mist and flames.<\/p>\n<p>Crown of the Ivory King is set in an &#8220;ancient temple wrung with freezing storms, towering walls and a hollowing emptiness.&#8221; Enemies in this wintry climate will specialise in freezing abilities and low visibility.<\/p>\n<p>A trailer for The Lost Crowns trilogy is below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ioo0ukZ6P-4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-06-04-dark-souls-2-to-receive-three-part-episodic-dlc\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65507-write-your-own-video-game-with-make-games-sa.html\">Write your own video game with Make Games SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65469-homefront-the-revolution-announced.html\">Homefront: The Revolution announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65491-2-4-billion-hours-of-esports-watched-in-2013.html\">2.4 billion hours of eSports watched in 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the lost crowns and return them to their rightful owner&#8230; if you dare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":58523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1728,8068,21,3593],"class_list":["post-65571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dark-souls","tag-dark-souls-2","tag-headline","tag-namco-bandai-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65609,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65571\/revisions\/65609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}