Castlevania Advance Collection leaked courtesy of an Australian rating

News
By published

PC release not confirmed.

Alucard
(Image credit: Konami)

In 2019, Konami released the Castlevania Anniversary Collection, collecting eight of the classic Castlevania games and making them available again, including on PC. It didn't include all of the fan favorites, however, like Rondo of Blood or its sequel Symphony of the Night. Word of a new collection, not yet announced by Konami, has snuck out via the Australian Classification Board. On June 18, the Castlevania Advance Collection was rated M for "fantasy violence" in Australia.

The name suggests this will be a bundle containing the Castlevania games released on GameBoy Advance: 2001's Circle of the Moon, 2002's Harmony of Dissonance, and 2003's Aria of Sorrow. So no, Symphony of the Night seems likely to be left out again. Sorry.

The rating for the Castlevania Advance Collection describes it as "Multi Platform", so a PC release is not yet confirmed, but since the Castlevania Anniversary Collection did make it to Steam it's a fair assumption this will too.

Meanwhile, Netflix is working on a brand new Castlevania series now that the popular animated show has wrapped up its fourth season.

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.