Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (PS5) News Articles
Thursday27th Nov 2025
News Bloodlines 2 Publisher Accepts the Blame Over $37 Million Failure
"Responsibility lies fully with us as the publisher"
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 publisher Paradox Interactive has announced it is writing down $37 million in development costs after sales of the vampire title failed to meet expectations. It's also taking ownership over the overall release's failure, including the lukewarm critical...
Tuesday25th Nov 2025
News 'Not Enough Time, Not Enough Money': The Dismal Vampire Bloodlines 2 Was Doomed from the Start
Ex-dev spills some blood
Much has already been written about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 and its desperately troubled development, but it's still interesting to hear about the project from someone who was actually there, on the inside. In a rather revealing interview with Cat Burton on YouTube, Dan Pinchbeck, the game's creative...
Wednesday17th Sep 2025
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Adds DLC Clans to Base Game Following Backlash
Bloody good show
Following a widespread backlash against Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 and its paywalled clans, publisher Paradox Interactive and developer The Chinese Room have officially ditched their DLC plans. Two clans — which basically act as your character's class — were set to be locked behind a paid DLC pack, or the game's...
Monday8th Sep 2025
News PS5 Pre-Orders for Bloodlines 2's Premium Edition to Be Refunded as Paradox Promises Changes
Out for blood
If you already pre-ordered the Premium Edition of anticipated RPG sequel Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, you’ll be refunded this week. That’s because publisher Paradox has promised “adjustments”, after the pricier Premium Edition attracted criticism for including two character classes as DLC. Fans of the game were
Wednesday27th Aug 2025
Rumour Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Publisher Plans to Back Down from Crap DLC Decision
The smell of blood
A backlash against day one DLC for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 may have convinced publisher Paradox to reconsider its plans. As it stands, the upcoming action RPG will launch with an additional $22 DLC pack that contains two character classes — the kind of thing that most would argue should be part of the base...
Wednesday20th Aug 2025
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Locks Character Classes Behind $22 DLC Pack
Fangs for nothing
As if there wasn't enough scepticism surrounding Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, it's been revealed that the troubled project will push players to spend extra on a DLC pack that includes two additional clans — which are basically your character classes. Eurogamer reports that said DLC pack, titled 'Shadows and Silk',...
Tuesday19th Aug 2025
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Commits to October 2025 Launch on PS5
Finally?
After many years and many delays, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will attempt to release on the PS5 on 21st October 2025. You can catch the new trailer above. The trailer mentions to pre-order now, but as of right now, there are no listings on the PS Store. Fight your way through a modern-day Seattle on the brink of an open war...
Tuesday25th Mar 2025
News Of Course Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Has Been Delayed Again
Now coming to PS5 in October 2025
The upcoming PS5 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been hit with yet another delay, this time pushing the game back from the first half of this year to October 2025. This is the closest the title has ever come to a day and date release date after multiple years of delays, suggesting The Chinese Room has...
Monday24th Mar 2025
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Bites an ESRB Rating
Signs of life from the MIA vampire RPG
We've been waiting for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, well, since the first released back in 2004. But in a real sense, the revival of the hugely influential vampire RPG was announced in 2019, and it sounds like the game has been stuck in various kinds of development hell for years. Still, it was just...
Friday1st Nov 2024
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 PS5 Offers Tasty Gameplay Morsel
"Blue-bloods in the castles, peasants in the gutter. Same old story"
Out of the shadows, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has emerged with a rare look at gameplay in a new trailer. A sequel that some ageing RPG fans have been waiting two decades for, Bloodlines 2 was supposed to be out several times over by now and is currently targeting a...
Wednesday9th Oct 2024
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Seemingly Afflicted By World of Darkness Curse
Paradox officially sick of the RPG game
In strict accordance with the traditions of The Masquerade, the ancient mandate that decrees all vampire kindred must live in a way that does not reveal their existence to humans, we haven't heard much about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 lately. The sequel to one of the most groundbreaking CRPGs ever...
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Gameplay Revealed, Out on PS5 in the 'Coming Months'
First gameplay in a while
The Chinese Room has today resurfaced with new gameplay for upcoming RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. Long in development, this is the first opportunity to see it in action in quite some time, with two videos published. A deep dive into the game's mechanics and setting is provided by members of the development...
Tuesday31st Oct 2023
News Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Reveals Its Protagonist
The name's Phyre
New Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has today shared a fresh look at the RPG's protagonist: Phyre. This is a fully customisable main character, with you allowed to select their gender and the clan they belong to, as well as outfits and who they feed on. There'll be four clans in the game, and who...
Monday4th Sep 2023
News Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Has a New Developer, Out in 2024
The Chinese Room now making the RPG
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture team The Chinese Room has been confirmed as the new studio behind the troubled Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, with an updated release window set for late 2024. It's unclear how much of the work original developer Hardsuit Labs put into the project will carry over into the...
Thursday8th Jun 2023
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Publisher Is Refunding All Physical PS5, PS4 Pre-Orders
An eternity of waiting
The publisher behind Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, coming to PS5 and PS4, will be automatically refunding all physical preorders, with refunds for digital preorders available on request. This comes as Paradox Interactive posted a development update for the game on its website. While refunding preorders is usually a...
Wednesday17th Nov 2021
News Unknown Dev Making Good Progress on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
"Quite some time" before release date revealed
Development of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is said to be going well according to Paradox Interactive, but who it is actually doing the work we still don't know. Hardware Labs was taken off the project at the beginning of this year and replaced by another team. The game's troubled production...
Tuesday23rd Feb 2021
Oh dear
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is not having the best time of it. Announced in March of 2019, the sequel to the beloved RPG has seen delay after delay, and now it seems the game is in a more precarious position than ever. The last we heard was that the title would be unlikely to release in the first half of this year; now, it's not...
Monday7th Dec 2020
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Unlikely to Release in First Half of 2021
The waiting game
What on earth happened to Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2? Originally scheduled to launch at the beginning of this year, developer Hardsuit Labs has pushed back its release time and time again, which in combination with high-profile departures over the past few months, has fans worried. Now Paradox Interactive CEO Ebba...
Tuesday11th Aug 2020
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Has Been Delayed to 2021
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To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is no longer scheduled to launch in 2020. Harduit Labs has delayed the vampiric RPG to 2021, with both a PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 version in the works. The team states it needs more time so that it can meet the bar of quality and ambitions it...
Friday8th May 2020
News Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Has a PS5 Version in the Works
Thirsty for more
It certainly looks like today is the day for developers to confirm that they're working on PlayStation 5 versions of games. Joining Scarlet Nexus is Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, which confirmed it would release a next-gen version as part of Inside Xbox's third-party gameplay reveal event yesterday. It was announced for...
