Some games wear their influences on their sleeve; Timespinner has a full-body tattoo that reads "I ♥ Symphony of the Night" from the top of its head to the soles of its feet. That's by no means a bad thing. Aspiring to one of th...

[Update: Well, I think we can call this a done deal, as the ESRB has also released a "T for Teen" rating for Castlevania Requiem for PS4. The ratings board describes Requiem as "a collection of two action platformers in which players assume...

That's right! Now Sony has unveiled its own smaller replica old-timey console! Coming this December, the PlayStation Classic will remind you of the days when d-pads mattered a whole lot more because they aren't even offering a DualShock con...

For as much crap as we love to give Konami over basically everything it does as a company, and we do love it, the publisher has done right by Super Bomberman R. Here we are, more than a year and a half out from its initial release, and the ...

I am ecstatic that I can go online today and buy so many new games for old systems. Just a few years ago, the only options similar to this at least on the NES were reproduction carts – games that either never came out in the west or n...

He just wanted to vacuum up some ghosts, that's all. When Mario's plucky brother Luigi entered that dank gothic mansion yesterday, during Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Direct, he was armed with his funny ghost-bustin' device and an amusing s...

When it was announced that Netflix was producing a Castlevania series, I was cautiously optimistic about it. I love the series to the bottom of my heart, my personal favorite entries are Symphony of the Night, Harmony of Dissonance, and Ro...

[Update: VIZ Media has confirmed it has only acquired the rights to season one of the show.] The popular Netflix Castlevania series will be seeing a home release in the near future. VIZ Media announced on Twitter that it has plans to releas...

People have been dying to know when the second season of Netflix's hit Castlevania series would be airing and now we have an answer. Make sure to schedule some time off on October 26, as season two hits the service that day. The news comes ...

Like any Kickstarter Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night hit a few bumps in the road, most notably the recent delay of the E3 backer demo. It was delayed last week, but in record time project lead IGA (Koji Igarashi) has announced that survey...

We know that Netflix's Castlevania show is getting a third season according to one of its principle cast members. But wait, there isn't a second season yet! That's coming still, apparently, according to the show's writer Warren El...

Although the backer demo for Koji Igarashi adventure Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was supposed to go live yesterday, the development team have unfortunately revealed that the beta will not be ready for another week.Speaking on Bloodsta...

I ate the Netflix Castlevania show up when it aired back in July of 2017 -- and it was pretty easy to do at just four episodes. Thankfully Netflix renewed it for an eight-episode second season, set to air this summer, but lead voice actor R...

[Update: Inti Creates posted a breakdown of the individual sales statistics for Curse of the Moon and the Switch was the leading platform by a wide margin. Around 56% of sales came from Nintendo's platform, with Steam coming in second at 19...

So far nothing catastrophic has happened to the Bloodstained Kickstarter project. Sure the team keeps bumping things back, but at this point that's expected of any Kickstarter campaign of this magnitude -- there hasn't been any "better than...

Inti Creates knows their way around platformers. I know I've sung their praises many times before, but they just aren't in the pantheon of super-stardom that they deserve. This is a team who's been perfecting the genre for 20 years, da...

Inti Creates have announced that nostalgic 8-bit platformer Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon will be slightly delayed in Europe on the Nintendo 3DS and worldwide on Xbox One.Although the game will still drop on PS4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch,...

Some of my friend's favorite pasttimes involve predicting and watching Super Smash Bros. reveals. I mean at this point any character could make it into the roster, and this latest rumor definitely has legs. Born out of Vergeben, who co...

The beat goes on in studio Koji Igarashi, as his team sink their fans into the development of not-Castlevania-but-it-is-really adventure title Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. A new survey has been released to garner fan feedback on the g...

Konami have announced a new Castlevania title coming to the iOS platform in Japan. Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls will see players co-operate to explore Dracula's castle in an all-new adventure.The game will feature the heroic duo of shady ...

According to a post on the team's official Twitter, the Castlevania-but-not-really title Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will have its release date announced very soon, before the end of March, in fact.Having been in development for a num...

Series' producer Warren Ellis has announced that the second season of Netflix' Castlevania anime will be screened this Summer, exclusively on the paid-television service. The second season will also double its episode count from four to eig...

Fine purveyors of video game vinyl and original art; Mondo, have unveiled a selection of Konami-themed items that will be on sale at San Diego Comic-Con next week.An 18x24 poster for hard-as-nails side-scroller Contra, featuring original ar...

Now that the Castlevania series has premiered on Netflix and everyone who's interested has gotten their peepers on it, it's time to move forward to the next shiny thing. Showrunner Adi Shankar, fresh off of the announcement he was working o...

At RTX this weekend, I got a chance to sit down with the director of Netflix's Castlevania, Sam Deats, and Frederator Studios director of marketing, Nate Olson. We chatted about the recently launched series and how it overcame its developme...