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Bloodlines 2’s new vision is smaller, tighter — and dividing fans

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s narrative director urges fans to expect a smaller, more focused story as concerns grow over cut features and the game’s troubled development.

Windows Central

No character creation, no guns, no clans. What happened to Bloodlines 2? — It’s not the game fans were promised

Discover every feature cut from Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, from character creation to RPG systems, ahead of its October 2025 release

Windows Central

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is not the faithful sequel I'd hoped to see, but maybe that's a bigger marker of progress than it seems

Opinion | I've come through the disappointment and emerged newly hopeful – for my own sanity

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I've played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game

They're ready to go and fit into the game perfectly, so why are they being sold separately?

PC Gamer

Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game's DLC clans, but it's not very convincing: 'We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land'

The long-awaited Bloodlines sequel will launch with six playable clans, but you'll need to pay extra for two of them.

PC Gamer

Bloodlines 2 devs rush to reattach foot blown off by day-one DLC paywalling 2 factions in an RPG about factions: "As you know, the date has pushed back, but that has been to fatten it out"

The Chinese Room has "made a huge amount of changes" over time

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 devs aren't "making GTA," so fans of the original action RPG shouldn't expect a "big, open world, sprawling game where the horizon is your limit"

They value "quantity of detail over scope"

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Bloodlines 2 studio The Chinese Room has bought its own independence, but also laid off employees in the process

You win some, you lose some

PC Gamer

After 7 years and the "increasingly likely" chance it'd be sold off, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room is once again an independent studio

The devs wanted to "scratch the creative itch of continuing to work on new, original intellectual property"

GamesRadar

"It’s just $50, and it’s the best reverb for the buck": Video game soundtrack composer Jason Graves reveals his go-to reverb plugin behind the sounds of Still Wakes the Deep

After scoring Dead Space and Call of Duty, Graves' most recent video game project takes him offshore to a monster-infested oil rig

MusicRadar

Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has laid off employees, but Paradox says the game is still coming in October

A number of TCR employees revealed the layoffs on social media, and Paradox has effectively confirmed "staffing changes" at the studio.

PC Gamer

Oil rig horror game Still Wakes the Deep is going underwater in a surprise story expansion that arrives next week

Siren's Rest is set 10 years after the events of The Chinese Room's nautical horror game.

PC Gamer

Still Wakes the Deep is getting a haunting new story expansion called Siren's Rest next week, set more than 10 years after the original game

The Chinese Room has announced Siren's Rest, a brand new story expansion for its 2024 horror game Still Wakes the Deep.

TechRadar

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is getting a fancy art book from Dark Horse that'll shed some light on its rebooted development

The Art of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is set to release a month after the a long-awaited RPG.

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PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Plus: Den of Wolves, Revenge of the Savage Planet, FBC: Firebreak, Echoes of Elysium, gaming keyboards tested, and much more!

Evening Standard

Bafta Games Awards 2025: a great night for British gaming

Astro Bot won big, but so did local titles like Still Wakes the Deep and Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Evening Standard

The full list of nominations for the Bafta Games Awards

The 21st edition of the awards take place in April.

PC Gamer

This year has proved yet again that horror games do best when devs keep it small-scale

Small but mighty.

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Evening Standard

The best games of 2024: from Black Ops 6 to Astrobot, what came out on top?

The Standard team picks their favourite releases, from AAA to indies

PC Gamer

The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?

From disappointing launches to delays to cancellations, it's been a rough time for the Swedish publisher, but it's trying to bounce back.

PC Gamer

Bloodlines 2 is 'a bit more of an action RPG,' Paradox exec says: 'People who have seen it talk about Dishonored'

Paradox deputy CEO Mattias Lilja says The Chinese Room is putting its own stamp on the game.

GamesRadar

Paradox boss says Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is doing well, it's "a bit more of an action RPG" and "people who have seen it talk about Dishonored"

The long-delayed sequel has changed devs and seemingly found its footing

Windows Central

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 delayed out of 2024 — here's what you need to know

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is being delayed out of 2024, and will now be arriving at some point in the first half of 2025.

PC Gamer

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time to 'add more endings to the game' along with some extra polish

It's now expected out in the first half of 2025.

GamesRadar

Still Wakes the Deep's creature movements were created by a "technical glitch," and they were so good it immediately "unnerved everyone"

They were almost too good

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