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Computer and Videogames has a story in which they spoke to the producer of the upcoming action RPG, Dark Souls. Kei Horono admitted that "I would be lying if I said the problems with PSN hadn't caused us some problems, but we are in contact with Sony and are aiming to meet a street date of October 11."

The team at From Software who are developing Dark Souls had hinted at a larger online component than they the one used to great success in its predecessor, Demon's Souls.

Andriasang posted the translated points of an interview from Japanese gaming site, 4Gamer, with the director of Dark Souls, Hidetaka Miyazaki, where he stated that he wanted to bring back the feeling of "the old Dragon Quest" games. In that way, he hopes that it will deliver the sense of where everyone feels the struggle of everyone else by sharing tips as they did in the old days. PS3 players saw a taste of this with Demon's Souls where they could actually leave simple hints - or deceptions - behind that the servers shared with everyone else in the form of text messages.

With PSN down, however, none of that is coming through making the world of Demon's Souls even more grim than it already is. The difficulties that Kei Horono admitted to above also emphasize the troubles that other developers may be having with PSN's forced downtime -  especially for those working on PS3 titles with online features.

IGN had posted a story last month in the early days of the outage speaking to one such developer that was directly affected, Open Emotion Studios. The Irish developer was set to release their puzzler, Mad Blocker Alpha, on PSN for the States on April 19th but as everyone knows, circumstances prevented anything PSN related from happening the next day when Sony took it offline. Paddy Murphy, CEO for Open Emotion, said that they have been in contact with Sony who promised extra marketing to help promote their game to help "recoup our potential losses".

But the days of exclusivity continue to wane with more games appearing on both the Xbox 360 and PS3. Dark Souls will be the first taste of From Software's unique punishment that Xbox 360 players may have missed if they didn't have access to a PS3 and a copy of Demon's Souls. Even with PSN down, continuing development with Live is likely providing valuable lessons useful for whatever networking tricks will be worked into the gameplay for both versions. This may be why Kei Horono seems confident in hitting that October 11th release date.

And why players will have another reason to be afraid of Halloween.

By Michael Sorba
Contributor

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The staff at Tech-Out would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2010.

Don't forget Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is just around the corner and Tech Out will be on the show floor giving you a sneak peak of what's to come in 2010.

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