Capcom announces the Dark Risen expansion pack for Dragon's Dogma will arrive on April 23 for North America and April 26 for Europe. The expansion pack includes a new area to explore, new enemies, more skills, and more character items.

Included within the DLC pack:

• A massive new underground realm to explore featuring over 25 terrifying new enemies
• More skills/equipment/augments:
• Level 3 Skills
• DD: DA provides each character class with a new tier of skills, giving players new devastating abilities and skills to master
• Over 100 pieces of new equipment
• All new high level weapons and armor sets for players venturing into the underground caverns
• 14 new character/Pawn augments
• New tiers of equipment enhancement
• And there's more:
• Increased character customization options
• Item appraisal
• Option to select Japanese voice over

Capcom also announced the game itself will be getting a retail disc re-release which will include the Dark Risen pack and arrives around the same time as the DLC version of the pack.

They also stated those who buy the re-release version instead of the DLC version of the pack will get a few extra "freebies" along with game saves being tweaked to take advantage of the new features added in the game.