Fans of FromSoftware’s “Dark Souls” franchise have been all abuzz recently following the trailer for the new “Elden Ring” game.
The title sees the developer going back to a Souls-style genre in what appeared to be an original IP with a world created by both “Dark Souls” creator Hidetaka Miyazaki and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin.
The game definitely looked a lot like a “Dark Souls” entry and now Martin has confirmed that is very much a new title in that franchise which ran from 2011-2016.
Martin was recently interviewed by Chicago’s WTTW network after receiving an honorary doctorate. During this he was asked about the experience of working on video games. He responded:
“Actually it’s considerably different. I’ve played some video games. I’m not a big video gamer. But the game is called the Elden Ring and it’s a sequel to a game that came out a few years ago called Dark Souls and it came out of Japan.”
Martin thus confirms the “Elden Ring” is a new ‘Souls’ entry, though it’s not clear how deep the connection is as yet and whether this is a true “Dark Souls IV” or something more akin to a same universe spin-off.
Martin also confirms he’s finished his work on the title several years ago with his contribution mainly to filling out this world:
“I worked up you know a fairly detailed background for them, and then they took it from there so really it’s been several years since I’ve last seen them. But they would come in periodically and show me some monsters they’d designed, or the latest special effects, or the cool things, but the game has been very slowly developing and it’s coming out in January I believe so I’ll be as excited as everyone else to see it.”
“Elden Ring” is scheduled to launch on January 21st on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
