The catch is it’s not called Castlevania. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon was created by Art Play Inc.(Koji Igarashi) and Inti Creates to use as a stretch goal for their Kickstarter project Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. It is meant to be a prequel to…
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is progressing nicely. It’s not playing hide and seek like its Japanese cousin, Shenmue 3, and it’s no MIA like Echoes of Eternea. At last year’s E3, lead developer Koji Igarashi revealed not only gameplay, but also a backer exclusive…
Earlier this month the Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night forums were abuzz with news that Koji Igarashi’s newest side-scrolling platfomer was coming to Nintendo Switch. Initially the team wouldn’t comment on the reveal, but a recent Kickstarter update has confirmed the news. Bloodstained has dropped…
Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night raised a ridiculous sum of money with its Kickstarter campaign. When a project has 64,867 backers, it’s safe to assume people are pretty excited about it. News of the game being delayed until 2018 was mildly disappointing, though not entirely unexpected. It was the announcement of procedural…
Delays for Kickstarter video game projects aren’t uncommon, in fact they’re almost expected. So it’s no huge surprise that the release date for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has been pushed back from March 2017 to the first half of 2018. What is more notable…
E3 was wonderful this year, and while our coverage of it has been minimal, that doesn’t mean we’ve completely ignored it. Well, not all of us anyway. Among the handful of crowdfunded games on offer at the once largest gaming trade show in the world…
Our weekly dose of hot takes, occasionally well formed opinions, and fevered outbursts is back; yup, it’s the Question of the Week! Although E3 festivities are kicking off in high gear, so far there isn’t much to talk about on that front – unless you enjoy the Elder Scrolls…
E3 is just around the corner, and don’t for one second assume the world’s second largest gaming trade show is just for the big boys. Indeed, the little-indies-that-could get a seat at the table as well, and one of them is the Kickstarted Bloodstained: Ritual…
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is one of the most successful videogame crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter – anywhere, really. Despite the myriad of updates over the last few months, we at Cliqist haven’t talked about it since June 2015. Deciding to remedy that, I chose…
There are absolutely hundreds of video games which have seen successful funding on Kickstarter over the years. Even so, it’s always interesting to watch and see which campaigns do so stunningly well that they get into the top ten video game crowdfunders of all time….
[dropcap size=big]S[/dropcap]o far this year, Kickstarter has shown that getting successfully funded has been getting tougher. In April, only 17 campaigns found success while 100 failed. If nothing changed it seemed that this was the new normal for crowdfunding, and quite an unfortunate turn for…
[dropcap size=big]Y[/dropcap]ou know a tale of dark awesomeness is upon us when Koji Igarashi is behind a project. Many know Igarashi as a video game designer and the former producer of the Castlevania video game series. His best known work is perhaps being the assistant…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]f you’ve been online at all this past month and love video games then there’s little doubt you’ve not already heard of Yooka-Laylee and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Although they cannot use the names of massive properties the developers’ were associated with (Rare…
Fans of the Metroidvania genre owe a great deal to Koji Igarashi. This video game designer played a large hand in what many consider to be the best of the best – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. He spent dozens of years with Konami, but…
2018, another in a growing line of trash-fire years, is finally over. On the indie gaming front, it was okay year, if not spectacular. Return of the Obra Dinn, A Case of Distrust, and WayHaven Chronicles: Book One are likely the only games your humble…
If there’s two things I hate in the gaming industry today that everyone else loves, it’s Bethesda and nostalgia. Bethesda has a long record of suing indie developers over spurious copyright claims while pretending to be the victim. Meanwhile they’ve been ruining Fallout and The…