– Acclaimed PlayStation®3 Action RPG Title Debuts across Australia New Zealand as an Exclusive Retail Limited Edition –

SYDNEY, Australia – 1st July 2010 – NAMCO BANDAI Partners Australia New Zealand, one of the video game industry’s leading distribution, marketing and sales companies, this week announced the PAL Asia launch of Demon’s Souls exclusively for PlayStation®3 (PS3™). The universally acclaimed action RPG title from renowned Japanese publisher Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) is available as an exclusive European limited edition retail pack containing the game, soundtrack CD, a new artbook and a brand new strategy guide.

The European version of the game features the English voiceover with fully localised subtitles in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. The exclusive new strategy guide has been written by two passionate North American fans of the game in collaboration with the entire fan community, offering European fans a unique and exciting insight into the innermost workings of the game universe.

Demon’s Souls is a darkly beautiful and uniquely captivating RPG experience that takes players on an unforgiving journey into the kingdom of Boletaria, a blighted fantasy universe inspired by medieval Europe. The revolutionary online connectivity delivers a seamless adventure for an enhanced single player experience or an exhilarating multiplayer game. Work together to overthrow awe-inspiring bosses, or alternatively, force your way into the games of other skilled players, challenging them to deadly PvP battles.

Along your journey you can leave hints and clues for those who will come after you, and whether intentionally or through your own inadvertent demise, bloodstains you leave behind will let your successors view a replay of your death, giving them clues to help them avoid your unpleasant fate. Unprecedented in its depth and subtlety, peerless in its relentlessly challenging gameplay, Demon’s Souls is the ultimate action RPG.

Featuring the game text-localised in five European languages, a brand new hardback artbook filled with mesmerizing concept and game art images, a new strategy guide written by the fans, plus the deeply atmospheric original soundtrack of the game on CD, the limited edition retail pack of Demon’s Souls is available now across the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, only for PS3.

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