Bandai Namco has announced the release date for the next installment in the Dark Souls series - Dark Souls III from developer From Software. Dark Souls III will be available in the US in April of 2016 for PC through Steam, PS4 and Xbox One. Japan will be receiving the game somewhat earlier on March 24th, 2016.

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　　Developed by acclaimed Japanese developer FromSoftware and directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, Dark Souls III is the latest chapter in the critically acclaimed DARK SOULS series with its trademark sword and sorcery combat and rewarding action RPG gameplay.  Players will travel across a wide variety of locations in an interconnected world of unrelenting challenge and deep RPG gameplay as they search for a way to survive the coming apocalypse.