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 ...

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 ...

Announced with a reveal trailer during the February 2026 State of Play, Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is a new 2D action platformer coming from Konami alongside Motion Twin and Evil Empire--those last ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tay Garcia is a Staff Writer at DualShockers and a Brazilian journalist who has been covering games professionally since 2017. Her work spans news, reviews, previews, lists, guides, and features, with ...

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 ...

Retro Game Friday is a column by Michael Blaker covering various games from the past. This week he covers Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, set to launch this year, is being made by Konami and two studios behind the roguelike Dead Cells, Evil Empire and Motion Twin. Given the history of those two studios, I ...