We've got some copies of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night up for grabs in today's contest! Have all of you good little gamer boys and gamer girls been keeping up with the hottest games this year? It's time to slap together those GOTY lists...

Retro fans Hamster have returned to Nintendo's "Vs." series for this week's Arcade Archives release, which sees the original Castlevania title now available for download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released back in 1986 for Nintendo's Famico...

In mid-2018, much to the chagrin of Castlevania fans everywhere, Konami announced Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls: a mobile multiplayer series spinoff. Since then we haven't really heard much about it, but Konami is changing that with a...

Watching developers play other people's games is always interesting. Most of the good ones end up looking at the other dev's work both for what it is while also thinking about how it was made, making for more layered, insightful commentary...

Unless it was made by just one person, it's a bad idea to give all the credit for a game's success or failure to a single individual. Koji Igarashi has produced many of the best games in the Castlevania series, but he's far from the only re...

It's nearly time again to turn the calendar, which means it's time to turn our attention to a new slate of Xbox Games with Gold. The headliner comes just in time for Xbox's biggest exclusive of the year. The star attraction in August's Gam...

Technically, Konami is still making games with some of their classic franchises. They have a new Contra game in the works, a new 2D Castlevania title set for release this year, and last I checked, the servers for Metal Gear Survive were sti...

We're a month on from the long-awaited release of Koji Igarashi's gothic adventure Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. After a lengthy crowdfunding and development process, the Castlevania coder's Castlevania-like game finally launched to ge...

After spending a literal 24 hours with Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, I've come to the conclusion that it stands a very real chance of being one of my favorite games of 2019. I honestly didn't expect it! As much as I adore Iga's brand o...

Konami has released the previously-announced update to their recent retro compendiums Konami Arcade Classics, Contra Anniversary Collection and Castlevania Anniversary Collection. The patches, which are live in their respective releases rig...

Legendary producer Koji "IGA" Igarashi recently sat down with Gematsu at BitSummit this previous weekend, and had a few things to say about Bloodstained (which is about to launch imminently) and Castlevania. After breathing a sigh...

It seems to have taken us a long time to get to this point. But after a lengthy development process that included crowdfunding campaigns, delays, demos, and a lot of promises, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has finally been made availabl...

Castlevania went through a pretty rough patch after 2008's Order of Ecclesia. While the original Lords of Shadow was a fine God of War-like romp, it was far removed from what made the series famous in the first place, and the sequel flub ki...

The Castlevania Anniversary Collection is coming soon (May 16) and when it arrives, it'll ship with eight games: Castlevania, Castlevania II, Castlevania III, Super Castlevania IV, Castlevania: The Adventure (Game Boy), Castlevania II: Belm...

Roughly a month ago Konami announced the Castlevania Anniversary Collection and gave us four of the eight games they were set to include. Now, thanks to a PlayStation Blog post, we have all of them. So, let's get onto it! We already kn...

Castlevania is making a comeback. Well, kind of, right? A kinda-comeback? Konami is pumping out re-releases and anniversary collections in an attempt to prop up the series again, and Bloodstained was created in response to people's love for...

It's hard to believe that the metroidvania genre nearly died a decade ago. With Konami and Nintendo basically moving on from the likes of Castlevania and Metroid, it fell on indie developers to continue the legacies that those series starte...

The various rumors and rated collections were true! The Konami Anniversary Collection series has been announced by the company. Packaging different series in separate compilations, the first pack available will be the Arcade Classics collec...

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Konami's funky multiplayer-focused greatest-hits remix of past games, is playable on Xbox One. The 2010 Xbox 360 title just joined the backward compatible list. The game never quite lived up to its home-run...

Pumping myself up for a Castlevania collection with a tantalizingly vague name? What could go wrong! It would seem that Konami has a compilation in store for Castlevania fans who enjoyed revisiting Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood o...

Physical media fans Limited Run Games has announced that they will be selling a physical release of Inti Creates' retro-infused title Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, the precursor to the highly anticipated Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night...

Gothic adventure Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which has long been in development, has received a rating from the Entertainment Software Review Board, so it's gotten one step closer to release, even though the crowdfunded title is yet ...

And just like that, I'm thankful that I inadvertently let Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon slip through my fingers when it first released (and again after recently burning through Castlevania: Requiem, now that I think about it). Inti Create...

In the primordial days before your mom was on the internet, we grew up in fear of the other. In the '80s and '90s, we frequently spoke of the mist-shrouded land across the ocean that controlled most of the games we played. Whether we discus...

Konami has announced that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is now backward compatible on Xbox One. While many people don't look back on it too fondly, it and its direct sequel are the last official Castlevania games released by Konami. They act...