And over 60 billion souls have been lost.
Within one week or going on sale, the total number of deaths people have suffered in Dark Souls II has eclipsed four million, according to an official website. Nowhere in these stats does it state how many tears people have shed playing the game.
Get the vanilla Xbox One for #163;50 off.
UK retailer Maplin has the standard edition Xbox One on sale for #163;349.99 - #163;50 off the #163;399.99 RRP, which is itself #163;30 off the original, launch-day UK price of #163;429.99. Good things come...
Publisher releases tips about online problems.
EA continues to investigate reports of dropped or slow connections when playing Titanfall on Xbox One, following a spate of Xbox Live sign-in errors last night. Are you among those hit? Perhaps this will help.
First details of an intriguing new world creation game.
Cubical Drift has announced that Planets, its rather dazzling interplanetary crafting and exploration sim, will come to Xbox One providing the developer receives enough funding for the project via Kickstarter.
Casting call looking for actors to voice and mo-cap multiple characters.
AllGamesBeta recently spotted a casting call for an "untitled video game" in production by Take-Two - the parent company of Mafia's publisher 2K Games. Could this be the surest sign yet that Mafia 3 is alive, well and in development?
"Futuristic gun-toting, kick-ass astronaut" to helm developer rebrand.
Enterprising NeoGAF sorts have dug up a logo trademark filing for Leap Experience Pioneers, a relatively unknown Microsoft studio that appears to be working on a new Xbox One exclusive. The image in question, a picture of an astronaut super-imposed on the acronym "LXP", is said to reflect the studio's "pioneering" spirit.
"We're actively working on a resolution".
Issues with Astro headsets were reported earlier in the week, and are currently being resolved by the company with a firmware update that should be available soon. But, now reports are coming in via Xbox's official forums that those aren't the only brand affected. Reports suggest that while things like in-game audio and Skype calls seem to be functioning as normal, voices of users utilising the adapter are distorted in party chat with a kind of crackling sound.
All better now though - you may wish to power-cycle your Xbox One.
Xbox Live had a bit of a stomach upset last night, but Microsoft appears to have sorted everything out now. No explanation has been given for the downtime, though Microsoft PR man Major "Larry Hryb" Nelson says it wasn't "a Titanfall issue".
More drugs, sex and violence, basically.
Ubisoft's open-world action crime saga, Watch Dogs, has been given an R18+ rating since announcing its delay. In September last year Watch Dogs was classified as MA15+, but now according to a reclassification includes greater impact in its levels of violence, drug use and sex.
"I think we struck the right balance," assures Microsoft.
Mystery continues to swirl around the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall, in development at Bluepoint Games with Respawn's input. The last gen version of the game will launch on 25th and 28th March in North America and Europe respectively, and is, we're told, "coming along really well" despite a total absence of publicity.
"We believe the game will prove to be worth the wait," says CD Projekt.
CD Projekt has pushed back The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's release date from the end of this year to February 2015, in order to achieve "the quality that will satisfy us, the quality gamers expect from us". These are Dark Times, my fellow adventurers. Where will we turn to get our fill of sleazy barmaid sex scenes this Christmas? To Dragon Age? Pah. Dragon Age's sex scenes wouldn't melt the frosting on a supermarket brand choc ice.
This week's Deal of the Week is all about the Arcade.
Not buying Titanfall? Not keen on Dark Souls 2, either? Perhaps I can tempt your morbidly entertainment-averse soul with the below Deals of the Week - there's an unspectacular but hearty selection of Arcade titles on offer.
"Why are you charging me for something that you shipped with the game?".
Titanfall for Xbox One hits North American stores today, but Respawn's labours are only just beginning. The developer must now update the game with new content and to patch out the inevitable bugs - a process that could go on for years, depending on Titanfall's popularity, and reviews suggest that it'll be very popular indeed.
Respawn, EA and Microsoft collaborate to smooth out launch wobbles.
Titanfall releases today on Xbox One and PC in North America, and as you'd expect, there have been a few connection problems. Respawn has now patched the game's servers to deal with an issue whereby Private Lobbies would take an eternity to load. Are you playing the game? Let us know how you're getting on.
But it's marked "unavailable".
Watch Dogs will receive a closed beta test on Xbox One, as revealed by an Xbox Marketplace listing that has presumably been made public in error.
Astro users report a crackling bug, but a fixing firmware release is on the way.
Turtle Beach has gone and published a list of headsets that the new Xbox One headset adapter is currently compatible with.
fo on quests, characters, maps.
Cheer up, Peter Molyneux. There may actually be a dog in Fable Legends after all, if a new Lionhead video is any indication. Within, game director David Eckelberry comments of the prospect of hero pets that "we're looking at that one, especially some characters who have a pet all the time". There's talk of "canine love", too. Auspicious stuff.
Xbox, broadcast.
Turn on your Xbox One, get the latest update, and you can start broadcasting your mad skills to the world. Just in time for Titanfall, too.
Prepare for Titanfall by, er, sorting out your Battlefield bugs.
DICE has released a new Battlefield 4 Xbox One update, which raises the multiplayer's maximum rank to 120, among other things. Lots of other things. This is a monster patch. If I had the power, I'd hand you an Xbox Live Achievement for reading all the way to the bottom of the page.
But "we don't want to give up anything for higher res".
Titanfall on Xbox One will initially run at a resolution of 792p, upscaled to 1080p, but Respawn may optimise the game to run at a higher resolution after release, via a downloadable patch.
