The European division of Namco Bandai has just confirmed that Dark Souls 2 is expected to be released next year in March, which is quite a long ways off for the moment. The publisher confirmed after a Dark Souls 2 banner advert was spotted in LA outside the convention centre which will be hosting E3 in approximately a week.

The game was originally announced before Christmas last year citing rumours of it being revealed earlier for next generation consoles and PC.  I guess we'll be seeing more on the game very shortly at E3 along with learning other details about the game.

Hopefully after the comments of making the game more straightforward, they've changed their minds on this, and hopefully make a great sequel to the original Dark Souls that it supposedly deserves.