Behaviour has announced that Dead By Daylight will collaborate with the legendary Castlevania, featuring the legendary Trevor Belmont and Dracula!

Time to get your whip ready, as Dead By Daylight will be collaborating with Castlevania via a public test build on Steam starting today, with an official release on the 27th of August. The upcoming exciting collaboration will feature the first shape-shifting vampire, Dracula, with Trevor Belmont as the survivor.

Originally released by KONAMI on the Famicom Disk System in 1986, the Dead by Daylight team has joined forces with the original Castlevania team to bring 8-bit glory to the survival horror game Dead by Daylight. This time around, Dracula’s powers and his castle are linked, with The Entity bringing both into his realm. Whenever Dracula is a featured killer in a trial with an original map, players will see the castle looming on the horizon of the map.

As Dracula enters Dead By Daylight: Castlevania, he will be the first shapeshifting Killer and a vampire in The Fog. As you embodied Dracula, you can shapeshift as a Vampire to stalk your prey and conjure flames that burn the flesh and render its bone to ash, a Bat to creep around in the shadow and gain ground with a blink, and the Wolf as a relentless hunter for fresh blood.  

Since his first introduction in 1989’s Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, Trevor Belmont has entered Dead By Daylight: Castlevania to fulfil his Belmont clan history and take on the Entity Realm. Though not the brawniest Belmont, he will have the skills that set him apart from the others, with the ability to seek out allies and use his legendary skills as a vampire hunter to truly honour the Belmont Clan.

Are you excited about the exciting collaboration? If so, Dead By Daylight: Castlevania is currently available as part of the Steam public test build until its official release date, August 27, 2024. 

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A home computer version of Castlevania will be available to play on the classic computer's emulator console. Zuiki has announced that it will release the X68000 version of Castlevania on its X68000 Z mini-console on May 30, 2024. The company will bundle the game with Block Hole, a puzzle shooter game that is also known in Japan as Quarth.

Pre-orders for the physical package are immediately available on Zuiki Store at ¥5,478 (~$35.45). The package will feature a game case modeled after floppy disks that were used in classic PCs. The actual game cartridge will appear in the form of an SDHC card that the owner can insert into the X68000 Z console.

Konami originally released the X68000 version of Castlevania in 1993 in Japan. This version was also a remake of the game's inaugural edition which came out on the Famicom Disk System in 1986. The company later ported this version as-is in the Original Mode of Castlevania Chronicles, which it gradually released worldwide on the PlayStation in 2001.

This new port will add another entry to the list of classic Castlevania games that get brought over to modern consoles. Konami released the Castlevania Advance Collection which primarily featured the series' GBA entries for the Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC in 2021. Nintendo also added the Game Boy version of Castlevania Legends to its Nintendo Switch Online lineup in October 2023.

The Castlevania and Block Hole Deluxe Pack will be available for X68000 Z on May 30, 2024.

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