{"id":88973,"date":"2016-04-11T18:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88973"},"modified":"2016-04-11T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:09:47","slug":"dark-souls-board-game-coming-to-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/88973-dark-souls-board-game-coming-to-kickstarter","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls board game coming to Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dark Souls board game is currently in production, with a Kickstarter for the project launching some time in April.<\/p>\n<p>Very little is known about the project at this point other than the news that Bandai Namco had officially licensed the game to Steamforged games.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/steamforged.com\/news-dark-souls-develop\" target=\"_blank\">official statement<\/a> on their website, Steamforged games had the following to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steamforged Games is proud to announce we will be working with Bandai Namco Entertainment, developing an exciting board game for the Dark Souls universe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Dark Souls fans, we could not be more excited to be given the honour of developing a board game that embraces everything that makes Dark Souls the deep, compelling game experience that it is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Dark Souls board game will be launched on Kickstarter during April 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We cannot even begin to imagine what type of game this could turn out to be, or the mechanics that would be required to give a &#8220;true Dark Souls experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Steamforged games have previously worked on one another game &#8211; 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