‘Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen’ Release Date Announced

Dragon’s Dogma is an RPG from Japanese developers that delivered a surprising amount of depth and featured gameplay not unlike that of a western RPG. The game enjoyed a healthy amount of sales—enough for its publisher to justify wanting to turn the whole thing into a franchise instead of allowing it to languish as a one-off title.

It’s been a year since Dragon’s Dogma release, and Capcom has only just now announced its plans to release an expansion pack for the game. Titled Dark Arisen, it’s a full fledged expansion pack rather than a DLC, and is set to include an all new campaign that expands upon the original game.

The announcement was made at the end of a live Famitsu broadcast. A video of the game in action can be seen below. The footage was released at TGS 2012 last year. 

The publisher has given Dark Arisen a Japanese release date of April 25 for both the Xbox 360 and PS3, where it will retail for 4,990 yen—or $56. Expect it to sell for slightly under $50 when it hits the shelves elsewhere in the world. Given its international popularity, I expect that it’ll be out in the west at the same time as its release in Japan.