{"id":3964,"date":"2009-06-04T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"castlevania-lord-of-shadows-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3964-castlevania-lord-of-shadows-announced","title":{"rendered":"Castlevania: Lord of Shadows announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At yesterday&rsquo;s E3 event which is currently being held in LA, Konami announced that development on a new Castlevania game is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Castelvania franchise has been running since 1987, and the Lord of Shadows will be the series&rsquo;s first full scale release venture onto current generation hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The game was actually announced last year, but at the time it did not carry the Castlelvania name.<\/p>\n<p>Originally bearing the title &ldquo;Lord of Shadows&rdquo; the game was described as a &ldquo;dark fairytale&rdquo; which focused on exploration and puzzle solving with a dramatic marketing tag reading &ldquo;one man&#8217;s journey to discover the true meaning of sacrifice amidst murder and betrayal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game is being developed by Mercury Steam. Mercury Steam previously released Clive Barker&rsquo;s Jericho which received mixed reviews but was generally considered to be a bit bland and forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting development, Hideo Kojima&rsquo; studio Koijima Productions has announced that it is assisting Mercury Steam with the tile. The Metal Gear Solid creator stated &#8220;My role is to support them,&#8221;, and went on to say &#8220;I&#8217;m going to help them to give birth to this Castlevania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Castlevania: Lord of Shadows will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3, with no mention of a PC version coming to market. It will be quite sad if this game does not come to PC, as the Castlevania franchise is one of the original cornerstones in PC gaming.<br \/>No more information was given on the new Castelvania title, but Kojima did reveal that more would be shown in the very near future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Gear Solid creator assisting  with new Castelvania title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}