Sega fans, be fang-ful. Castlevania is a series many fans will associate with the Nintendo Entertainment System. Konami’s franchise made quite an impact when it launched on the console in 1987 (1986 for the Japanese Famicom Disc System version) and would be followed by two 8-bit sequels. Titles like Super Castlevania IV, Belmont’s Revenge, Aria…
Documentary from GamersNexus is on the way, apparently. Last year, we reported that Sega used the British Police to recover a selection of dev kits and consoles it had “negligently disposed of” from a business owner who claimed to have a legitimate claim of ownership. Described as a “preservation disaster” by some within the retro…
“He had been supporting me for over 20 years”. Shutaro Iida, who worked alongside Koji Igarashi on the Castlevania and Bloodstained series of games, passed away on February 10th at the age of 52, we’re sad to report. He had been battling cancer since 2024. Iida’s list of credits is remarkable, and his impact on…
In March, Discord will be rolling out facial scanning and ID checks globally for users who don’t want to be locked into a “teen-appropriate experience”. Some of the stuff being restricted is fairly specific, and even if you were locked out of it because, say, you had privacy concerns and weren’t comfortable giving Discord your…
Werner “Wesp5” Spahl, author of the essential Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Unofficial Patch, appears to have the inside scoop on the initial, canceled version of its sequel, pulled from Hardsuit Labs by publisher Paradox in 2021, as opposed to The Chinese Room-developed game we got last year. Over the past few days, Wesp5 has…
The GameDiscoverCo newsletter studies how people find the games they play. You may remember the time they analyzed the names of bestselling games on Steam to learn what they had in common. Their latest look at Steam is an in-depth study of keywords in capsule descriptions—the paragraph of summary under the icon on the top-right…
There’s something extremely English about the slack-skinned medieval peasantry of God Save Birmingham. They all look like they ate a lot of sausage sandwiches in their time. And soon, food will be able to have its revenge—one of the new weapons being added to the survival/crafting sim is a big old haunch of meat. Scythes…
The worst part of Smash Bros. is that it’s not on PC, and the best part of Rivals of Aether—aside from platform-generating rhinoceros beetle Kragg—is that it is on PC. But the excellent sequel, Rivals of Aether 2, lacks the character I got on with most in the short time I played the original game:…