Video Games
Motion Twin Teases ‘Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania’ DLC With Brief Trailer [Watch]
After being announced during The Game Awards last month, Motion Twin and Evil Empire have dropped a new teaser trailer for the upcoming Castlevania crossover DLC for Dead Cells. Rather than a slick animated trailer as before, this time around, we get some “blink and you’ll miss it” gameplay footage of the DLC in action. Yeah, it’s not much, but it definitely gets the job done with a nice throwback to the intro to the original Castlevania.
Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania will see the arrival of two new biomes for you to explore, including Dracula’s castle. You’ll also be able to unlock 14 iconic Castlevania weapons including the Vampire Killer, Throwing Axe & Holy Water. Best of all (at least for some), the DLC includes 51 of the original Castlevania music tracks, as well as 12 tracks reimagined in the style of Dead Cells.
The new storyline sees you coming upon a mysterious castle, where a man named Richter has asked you to help him vanquish a great evil within. Enticed by the promise of new loot (rather than a sense of moral duty), you strike out through the grounds and corridors of the gothic castle to find and kill this mysterious Dracula…
The Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC arrives Q1 2023 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch.
Video Games
Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.