Castlevania season 3 Netflix release date: Will there be another series?

Castlevania seasons one and two are currently available to stream and download on Netflix now. Castlevania season two dropped on the global streaming site last week and fans have been binge-watching the new series over the weekend. You sign up to a month free trial to watch both seasons of Castlevania and afterwards you are […]

Netflix’s ‘Castlevania’ showrunner Adi Shankar on nerddom and season two

It’s easy to draw a line from producer Adi Shankar’s scrappy Bootleg Universe — his slew of short indie films about the Punisher, Power Rangers and other pop culture heroes uploaded on YouTube — to his recent work as showrunner of Netflix’s recently released animated Castlevania series. His approach taps into what made beloved characters […]

Castlevania on Netflix falls one whip short of a good crack

Enlarge / Bad news for the bishop. (credit: Netflix) The only great thing about the first-ever animated Castlevania TV series is how it ends: with a taste of a promising follow-up. The new Netflix “series,” which is technically an 80-minute movie broken up into four chunks, concludes with everything you would want from such a […]

What’s on TV: ‘Castlevania,’ ‘Snowfall,’ ‘Candy Crush’

It’s a holiday week, but if you’re up from people setting off fireworks early, you can check out six new comedy specials on Netflix Tuesday morning as part of The Standups, with Deon Cole, Beth Stelling, Nate Bargatze, Dan Soder, Nikki Glaser, and Fortune Feimster. Then, later this week the service drops season one of […]

Netflix’s ‘Castlevania’ Series Casts ‘The Hobbit’ Star Richard Armitage, a ‘Preacher’ Actor, and More

Producer Adi Shankar, the guy responsible for bootleg short films like the R-rated Power/Rangers and Venom: Truth in Journalism, has been hyping his upcoming animated television adaptation of the popular Nintendo video game Castlevania for a while now, and when the teaser trailer was released last month, fans finally got a taste of what he was talking about. Now, in […]

Castlevania: Netflix reveal first look at violent anime series based on Nintendo game

The retro-style trailer is a must-see for any fans of the original NES game as it harks back to the popular role playing game known and loved by many.  Opening up with someone inserting a game cartridge into the beloved console, the Netflix logo appears behind on a round screen TV in classic 8-bit style. […]

‘Castlevania’ Teaser: Netflix Taps into Nintendo Nostalgia for Animated Series

Following the success of ’80s-nostalgia genre hit Stranger Things and the announcement of a prequel to Jim Henson’s ’80s magnum opus Dark Crystal, Netflix continues to dig deep into our childhoods. The streaming service has upped its nostalgia game, brushing off an old Nintendo cartridge (literally!) in the first teaser for its animated adaptation of […]

Steam’s Latest Hit Is Like Castlevania, Except More Random

My favorite moment in Dead Cells so far came right after I won my first boss fight. I gained the ability to make climbable vines sprout from certain surfaces, allowing me to access areas I hadn’t previously been able to. Classic Metroidvania stuff, right? The twist: Dead Cells’ levels, unlike those of a Castlevania or Metroid, […]