Nailing a trilogy can be a make-or-break moment for a game series. The first game debuts to critical and commercial success, players the world over fall in love with it, and then the second game does ...

Back in 2019, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night released as a unofficial successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, crafted by Koji Igarashi, a former Konami veteran who worked on the ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...

Kendall Cunningham is a writer, a podcast host, and a lifelong gamer who has been writing about the industry for nearly 5 years. His work is driven by a love for games that dates back to the NES, with ...

Konami announced a new Castlevania game during the February 2026 State of Play, and it's a 2D side-scroller made in partnership Evil Empire and Motion Twin, the makers of Dead Cells. It's called ...

In celebration of Castlevania's 40th anniversary, Konami has announced Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, a new stylized 2D Castlevania game co-developed by Evil Empire and Motion Twin. It's due out in ...

TL;DR: Konami and Motion Twin are developing Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, a 2D action-exploration game set 23 years after Dracula's Curse. Featuring enhanced whip mechanics, diverse weapons, and a ...

It's been 23 years since Konami released an acclaimed Metroidvania title on the Game Boy Advance, and it still holds up today.