{"id":43161,"date":"2012-08-17T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43161"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T09:41:16","slug":"castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-heading-to-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43161-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-heading-to-pc","title":{"rendered":"Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 heading to PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Konami Digital Entertainment\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11897-Konami-Digital-Entertainment\">Konami<\/a> has confirmed that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 will be coming to PCs in addition to the Xbox 360 and PS3 releases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCastlevania: Lords of Shadow successfully rebooted the franchise but now we want to go further and exceed people\u2019s expectations on what to expect from the sequel,\u201d said producer Dave Cox.<\/p>\n<p>The PC version is currently being developed in-house at Mercury Steam, and will bring the current-gen Castlevania experience to the platform for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new game tells a much broader tale and one that spans centuries. It is a game that pushes whatever format it is on to the absolute limit, and we are delighted that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2\u2019s rich blend of first-class fighting, deep exploration and rich storytelling are set to delight and enthrall PC users, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Konami revealed Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 at a pre-E3 show in June, along with a trailer for the upcoming action adventure game featuring Gabriel Belmont (the predecessor\u2019s protagonist).<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel leaves his Gothic castle and decides to take on a horde of enemies with some new supernatural powers, looking a little &#8220;darker&#8221; than we\u2019ve seen him before.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the trailer is when it climaxes with another familiar face in the Castlevania series popping up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DfR-cVx7Q8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Castlevania announcement teased by Konami\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38467-castlevania-announcement-teased-by-konami.html\" target=\"_blank\">Castlevania announcement teased by Konami<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38815-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-confirmed-debut-trailer.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 confirmed, debut trailer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43018-metal-gear-rising-revengeance-trailer-and-release-date-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer and release date revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/42820-big-games-of-gamescom-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Big games of Gamescom 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43013-gamescom-news-you-need-to-know-so-far.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gamescom: news you need to know so far<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konami confirms that PC gamers will be getting some vampiric action <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":43162,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,4439,6278,4440,3159,4657,4526,819],"class_list":["post-43161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-castlevania","tag-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-pc","tag-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2","tag-dracula","tag-lords-of-shadow-2","tag-new-castlevania","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43161","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43163,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43161\/revisions\/43163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}