Dave Irwin is a writer on Game Rant with over six years worth of experience in the games industry. During this time, he has written countless guides, as well as features and reviews for a wide variety ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin is the second game in the series to appear on the Nintendo DS, following up on Dawn of Sorrow. Whereas Dawn of Sorrow ...

There’s nothing quite like defeating a boss in a game. A good boss encounter will forever be etched into the minds of players, while a bad one will just disappear. For example, Donkey Kong Bananza has ...

It was almost too perfect when Vampire Survivor’s first Konami collaboration was with Contra. It seemed like, for a quirky game blatantly, shamelessly paying homage to Castlevania while leaning on a ...

The appeal of Konami’s recently released Castlevania collection is, in theory, that it’s a new way to play three meaty Castlevania adventures from the Nintendo DS era (Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, ...