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Friday9th Feb 2024
News Dead Cells Post-Launch Support Coming to an End After Five Years of Updates
One last hurrah incoming
Dead Cells is the excellent side-scrolling roguelike action game from Motion Twin. We loved it back when the vanilla version launched years ago, but it's since received many huge updates, adding a vast amount of extras to keep the experience fresh. Now, though, the studio has announced that the next update to the game will...
Tuesday27th Jun 2023
News Dead Cells' Free PS5 Upgrade Promises Next-Gen Features This Week
The gift that keeps on giving
Dead Cells, released in 2018 for PS4, is getting a free PS5 upgrade this week (on 29th June), which comes with the sorts of bells and whistles we've come to expect at this point. Enhance your future runs with haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and audio feedback when it does. Dead Cells continues to go from strength...
Monday5th Jun 2023
News Dead Cells DLC Planned Until 2025 as Game Sells 10 Million Copies
Devs are tinkering and experimenting for future updates
Dead Cells developer Motion Twin has today announced the hit indie rogue-like title has now surpassed 10 million sales across all platforms. A native PS5 version is planned for release on 11th August 2023, and the studio shall continue to support the game until at least 2025. Co-developer Evil...
Tuesday23rd May 2023
News Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Coming to PS5, Huge Physical Bundles Revealed
All DLC to date included
The impeccable Dead Cells, alongside its superb Return to Castlevania expansion, is coming natively to PS5. Confirmation comes as publisher Merge Games and developer Motion Twin have announced all-new physical bundles, which will be available on both PS5 and PS4 from 11th August. These retail releases will include all...
Monday27th Mar 2023
News Dead Cells Is Helping Bring Konami's Castlevania Back to Stores on PS5
Return, to Castlevania
The recently released and really good Dead Cells expansion, Return to Castlevania, has been out for a couple of weeks now, and it's a fun and nostalgic diversion. It looks like we might be getting a bundled physical edition of the game native to PS5 as well, which is a pretty tempting proposition As spotted by Gematsu, a...
Tuesday7th Mar 2023
News Get Gothic and Return to Castlevania in Dead Cells DLC, Available Now on PS4
It's not a phase, mum
Dead Cells' nostalgic Return to Castlevania DLC is finally here, and we got a suitably epic launch trailer to get us all gothed up and ready for action. Return to Castlevania is Dead Cells' fourth paid expansion (and the most expensive at $10). Punters will be venturing into two new randomly generated biomes based on the...
Friday24th Feb 2023
News Unlock a Secret 'Richter Mode' in Dead Cells Return to Castlevania DLC
Whip it real good
Excellent action-platformer Dead Cells is paying homage to the legendary series that inspired it with the upcoming Return to Castlevania DLC. In a new trailer, we learn of a secret Richter Mode, which is sure to appeal to the purists out there. If you can find the requisite secret room (or, let's be honest, get fed up and Google...
Friday20th Jan 2023
News Get Your First Glimpse of Dracula's Castle in This Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Teaser
Did you know that Alucard is actually Dracula spelt backwards?
Dead Cells really is the gift that just keeps on giving, isn't it? Since it first launched back in 2018, developer Motion Twin has supported the excellent roguelike with both paid and free DLC updates (like Rise of the Giant, Bad Seed,
Friday9th Dec 2022
News Return to Castlevania with Dead Cells' Crossover DLC on PS4
Coming soon
Dead Cells released over four years ago, and developer Motion Twin has been constantly adding to it and releasing DLC packs. The support has been pretty extraordinary for this rogue-like action platformer, and the trend continues with what seems like its most ambitious expansion yet. Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania brings the indie hit...
Thursday6th Oct 2022
News Dead Cells Boss Rush Mode Will Be the Ultimate Test of Skill, Coming to PS5, PS4 Late October
One after the next
Dead Cells is getting a new update in the form of the eponymous Boss Rush, which adds in exactly that mode, but also a whole bunch more. There are new skins and mutations to unlock, along with a new weapon to master and skill to utilise, and best of all, it's all free and coming to consoles later this month. The show's star here...
Thursday4th Aug 2022
News Enter the Panchaku in Dead Cells' Massive New Update, Coming Soon to Console
Unorthodox, but effective
Dead Cells is an excellent roguelike that wowed us back when it launched, and developer Motion Twin has been churning out a steady stream of support for the title ever since. The next update, called Enter the Panchaku, is out now on PC and coming to PlayStation "soon", and we got a couple of trailers outlining what we can...
Friday24th Jun 2022
News Dead Cells' Huge Accessibility and Difficulty Options Update Is Out Now
Breaking Barriers
Dead Cells released for PS4 back in 2018, and it's just received what is arguably its most significant update yet. The rogue-lite action title's awaited accessibility patch — nicknamed 'Breaking Barriers' — is out now, bringing a wealth of options that make the game much more approachable. It also includes difficulty sliders,...
Friday19th Mar 2021
News Excellent Roguelike Dead Cells Tops Five Million Sales
Coming back for more
Dead Cells is one of the very best roguelikes available on PlayStation 4, and the market appears to have recognised that. Developer Motion Twin has confirmed sales of the game have now surpassed five million across all platforms, with one-fifth of that impressive statistic sourced from the recent mobile port released in China...
Wednesday29th Jan 2020
News Dead Cells: The Bad Seed DLC Adds New Areas, Weapons, and More in February on PS4
Back to life
Dead Cells arrived on PlayStation 4 back in 2018, and gave the roguelike genre a shot in the arm. If you've yet to play it, expect a side-scrolling action game with ultra-responsive controls, endlessly replayable random maps, and Metroidvania-style level design. It's already a jam-packed game, but the Bad Seed DLC is almost here to add...
Thursday23rd May 2019
News Rise of the Giant DLC for Dead Cells Has Arrived on PS4, and It's Totally Free
Die and die again
Remember Dead Cells? This game from Motion Twin launched on PS4 last August, and it's easily one of the best rogue-lite action titles on the system. Since its release, the small studio has been hard at work updating the game, and it's just launched the first major DLC with the Rise of the Giant expansion. Even better, it's free of...
Friday3rd Aug 2018
News Awesome Animated Short Amps Anticipation for Dead Cells
Out next week
Dead Cells is one of those games that makes a brilliant first impression; we were instantly smitten with it when we randomly tried it at a convention last year. The good news is that the Castlevania-inspired roguelite launches next week on the PlayStation Store, and in order to celebrate that developer Motion Twin has prepared a pretty...
Tuesday10th Jul 2018
News Dead Cells Comes to Life on PS4 in August
Dead exciting
We've rather liked the look of Dead Cells since it was first shown off some time ago, and we now finally have a release date for the roguelike action game. You'll be making your way through procedurally generated dungeons from 7th August 2018. The above trailer tells you all you need to know: as you battle your way across the game's...
Friday26th Jan 2018
News Dead Cells Looks Like One to Watch on PS4
Rogue-lite coming this year
As we've no doubt pointed out several times before, the PlayStation 4 is home to a huge variety of games, and it's marvellous. The PlayStation Blog will often announce new titles heading for the platform, and the latest looks like it could be worth keeping an eye on. Making its way to PS4 in 2018 after a stint in Early...
