If you were waiting for a Dark Souls inspired game to set your heart aflutter with vampiric themes and pulse-pounding combat…then you might want to wait a bit longer, as Code Vein definitely isn’t that game.

Bandai Namco is one of the eclectic publishers, it’s kinda difficult to pin down what exactly they’re all about. Ubisoft are publishers usually driven to create immersive, expansive open worlds, Sony often places an emphasis on cinematic presentation and narrative and EA likes money; they all kinda have some form of speciality that they’re known by. Bandai Namco on the …

Code Vein is choosing to side-step the release madness of September, instead choosing to take the extra time and develop the game more for a new, unannounced release date in 2019.

Bandai Namco's interpretation of the SOuls formula is racing towards a September release, and Code Vein is still doing might fine doing it.

Code Vein thrusts you into a world where vampires are killing each other in the quest for small drops of blood. And its main characters certainly like to whine about it.

Some folks are already referring to Code Vein as the Dark Souls of anime games, perhaps an unfair comparison for a new title that is seeking to revive the idea of over the top action that is coupled with a decent degree of trial and error in its gameplay.

Bandai Namco has found its necks game. Giggle. Called Code Vein, the Japanese publisher got the ball rolling on the project with a short teaser and a few more details in Famitsu magazine this week. Promising vampiric action minus the bare-chested shininess, Code Vein drops players into a world devastated by monsters and disease as humanity has but one last stronghold to eke out an existence in.

Vampires are still kind of cool. They’re history’s greatest supernatural public domain asset, characters who have popped up in numerous media while Bram Stoker’s estate really wishes that the old bastard had done a copyright on his Dracula story. Bandai Namco wants a piece of that. After some teasing last week with copious amounts of blood and a Dark Souls-styled slogan of “Prepare to dine”, the publisher finally revealed their next project: Code Vein.