Gaming: Castlevania Is Finally Back, And It's In Exactly The Right Hands

Dead Cells studios Evil Empire and Motion Twin are working on a new 2D Castlevania adventure, Belmont's Curse.

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Every once in awhile the world stops delivering us a nonstop cavalcade of horrors—and questionable videogame trailers—to simply serve up something obviously good and right. Today that happened with Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, a new 2D action platformer from Evil Empire and Motion Twin, developers of the excellent Dead Cells.

This game has seemed destined to exist since the 2023 Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC, which proved the developers clearly had the chops to make a full-on new game in the series. But it's been a long time coming, even as Konami has restarted development on Silent Hill and Metal Gear. Castlevania's been stuck with crossovers and retro re-releases until now.

Source: PC Gamer