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'Dark Souls 3' DLC release date news 2016: Expansion pack arriving earlier than planned

"Dark Souls 3" has only been released two months ago, but fans are already excited for the game to be expanded with downloadable content (DLC).

The first "Dark Souls 3" DLC is said to arrive earlier than expected. | Steam

Three expansion packs are planned for the game. "Dark Souls 3" game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has confirmed in an interview with GNN Gamer (via NeoGAF) the first one will be released this fall.

The same number of expansions was released for the first two "Dark Souls" games and definitely did a good job at extending the breadth of the action role-playing video game series.

The same can be said with the DLCs coming to "Dark Souls 3." It is expected that the expansion packs are bringing along new maps, bosses and enemies. There will be weapons and armor sets as well that will help players defeat these new adversaries.

The "Dark Souls 3" season pass has been leaked earlier this year. However, instead of three DLCs, it only included two. It remains a mystery if this will be the case even with a trilogy DLC series announced. It will certainly be strange for the third DLC to be excluded from the bundle.

According to reports, this "Dark Souls 3" DLC will be released this August, which is a month ahead of fall. This expansion pack is expected to be previewed next month in the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2016.

Miyazaki said that the three DLCs will be the final "Dark Souls" project that developer FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment will ever release, at least for the time being.

They will offer "large" amount of new content so that they will be enough for "Dark Souls 3" players to spend long time exploring, especially with no new games planned for the franchise in the future.

"Dark Souls 3 will have several DLCs like previous games. But there's absolutely no plan right now for any sequels, spin-offs or tie-ins. But I can't say for certain the possibility is zero percent," Miyazaki said.