I've said it before and I'll say it again: Castlevania has some of the best music in all of gaming. Lost Painting from Symphony of the Night is like my go-to thinking song, but so many other entries have tracks that are just ...

Every day feels the same, but if you focus on the little things that you have some power over, you might be able to make things better. It's just going to take some time, which is bad news, because time is running out. Doom is in the air, i...

Netflix has made a short-and-sweet announcement that the Castlevania animated series has secured a fourth season. The news was announced via an animated teaser on the official Netflix Twitter.The first season of Castlevania hit the streamin...

A year ago, hearing a beloved game from my youth was getting ported to mobile would have only extracted an unenthusiastic groan from me. Classic console games are meant to be played with controllers and no amount of touchscreen buttons can ...

One of the greatest video games of all time, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, is now available to purchase on iOS and Android, giving fans the chance to carry Konami's 1997 PlayStation classic with them wherever they may wander.Directed ...

That's...a lot of colons! Games with Gold is getting silly and melancholy next month, as the four new games run the full gamut of emotions. On the former side you have Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero and Sonic Generations, and on the latter th...

Fans of the anime adaptation of Konami's legendary video game series Castlevania will be pleased to hear that the third season is exactly one month away, and will hit streaming service Netflix on March 3.The first season - written by Warren...

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...