First Trailer For Netflix's Castlevania Animated Series
Announced earlier this year, here’s the first trailer for Netflix’s animated Castlevania series.
New PS4 Game Slain: Back From Hell Leaves A Bad First Impression
Slain: Back from Hell is a side scrolling hack and slash title out now for the Playstation 4 and PC. It looks and sounds like it could be a Castlevania spin off. But that’s not enough to save it from vapid combat and tedious gameplay.
Witness A Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Speedrunner Beat The Game Blindfolded
Using mist to leap off an enemy and reach a higher ledge would be tough enough on its own in Symphony of the Night, but doing so blindfolded? Let’s leave that to the experts, like amazing Castlevania speedrunner romscout.
Track: Blood Relations of Heaven and Earth | Artist: Masahiro Kimura, Masanari Iwata, Harumi Ueko | Album: Castlevania Dracula X OST
Slain Looks Like Heavy Metal Castlevania
Sometimes we play games because we want stories, or otherworldly out-of-body experiences, or to drive a Euro Truck. Other times, we just want to kill some shit. Slain happily obliges.
Neca Figures Really Capture Contra's Good Side
Figure maker Neca has been doing great things with their video game appearance line over the past couple of years. Lance and Bill from Contra might be the best yet. It’s all about those bullets.
Fan Makes Cool Paper Versions of Classic Game Scenes
The very first stage of the original NES Castlevania, the spooky Ghost House from Super Mario World, our first battle with Bowser in Super Mario Bros. Scenes we probably all remember and encountered one way or another, from the NES days, that Mark Green resurrected with brilliant dioramas.
Army of Darkness As An NES Metroidvania Game
The setting and the story of the third Evil Dead movie would have been perfect for a Metroidvania game. Something similar to the first Castlevania. We never had one, so CineFix imagined how it’d look.
That's One Pissed-Off Simon Belmont
Wouldn’t want to be on the other end of that Vampire Killer. Even if it’s solid stone and doesn’t move.
Sources: When You Work At Konami, Big Brother Is Always Watching
Konami, the company behind Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill, does not appear to be a fun place to work. That’s according to reports in the Japanese press and new information shared with Kotaku by people close to the company. They describe a game development environment where Big Brother is always watching…
Konami's New Initiative: Erotic Castlevania Pachinko
Once upon a time, there was a company called Konami that would release all sorts of delightful video games in all kinds of genres under big, beloved franchises with names like Suikoden, Contra, Gradius, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Zone of the Enders.
With the successor to Castlevania funded on Kickstarter, now is a great time to read former Kotaku columnist Leigh Alexander’s take on what makes Castlevania so great—and why people keep going back to it.
Castlevania Successor Makes Over $1 Million In A Single Day
Koji Igarashi’s hustle to make a new Castlevania-style game has paid off: his spiritual successor to a series Konami keeps screwing up—because Konami is Konami—has in less than 24 hours made over $1 million on Kickstarter.
The Successor to Castlevania Finally Revealed
Koji Igarashi is best known for work on countless Castlevania games. He’s left Konami and is now ready to work on a new one. It’s not called Castlevania. It’s not for Konami. But it might just be what fans have been eagerly awaiting.
SNES Turned Into Dracula's Tomb From Castlevania
Thanks to its smooth design, modding the PAL version of the Super Nintendo seems like a fun thing to do. There's a lot of room for redecoration. Belgian artist Vadu Amka transformed one of these into a Castlevania-themed crypt of Dracula.
She Hears A Nintendo Theme Once, Then Makes Beautiful Music
Sonya Belousova is one of today's most accomplished young composers and pianists. Watch her demonstrate her skill by listening to a series of Nintendo themes — most for the first time ever — and then coming up with gorgeous arrangements on the spot.
The Best 3D Castlevania Is This Custom-Made Board Game
A massive game board inspired by the original NES classic, 11 characters with upgrade-able weapons and abilities, battle dice, movement dice and more than 100 item and monster cards — this is the ultimate Castlevania board game.
Custom SNES Is An Homage To Everything Castlevania
Artist Vadu Amka turned his PAL SNES console into the embodiment of darkness, just in time for October.
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