{"id":90151,"date":"2026-09-25T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90151"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:44:59","slug":"castlevania-turns-40-and-konami-may-have-just-teased-a-3d-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90151","title":{"rendered":"Castlevania Turns 40, And Konami May Have Just Teased A 3D Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Castlevania celebrated its 40th anniversary this week&#8211;an impressive milestone in video games and a terrifying\u00a0pair of\u00a0numbers\u00a0for anyone who was born in 1987. Konami marked the occasion with a new video paying tribute to the original whip-slinging hero of the 1986 Famicom game, as well as all of the other influential entries in the Castlevania series over the last four decades. It&#8217;s a cute little retrospective, and it might also be teasing something else from Konami, if our tinfoil-hat-speculation is right.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/U9hmHw0JFUc  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right near the end of the video, Castlevania&#8217;s\u00a0first protagonist, Simon Belmont, takes a quick stroll past a series of\u00a0non-ruined portraits\u00a0in Dracula&#8217;s castle. Eagle-eyed observers will note that these feature cover art from three of the 3D-era games&#8211;Lament of Innocence, Curse of Darkness, and Lords of Shadow. The fourth one is for Castlevania: Belmont&#8217;s Curse, which launches in October 2026. Could Konami be teeing up a new compilation that bundles together the PS2 and Xbox 360\/PS3-era 3D Castlevania games?<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1896679\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Castlevania-portraits.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1896679\" \/>Portraits of ruin? Nah, just some really good games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company isn&#8217;t saying anything, and there&#8217;s a good chance that the games were chosen purely because<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castlevania celebrated its 40th anniversary this week&#8211;an impressive milestone in video games and a terrifying\u00a0pair of\u00a0numbers\u00a0for anyone who was born in 1987. Konami marked the occasion with a new video paying tribute to the original whip-slinging hero of the 1986 Famicom game, as well as all of the other influential entries in the Castlevania series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90154,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151\/revisions\/90154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}