At the Tripe-I-Showcase (that is happening right now, at time of writing), developer of super-addictive-mega-hit, Vampire Survivors, Poncle have made a couple of substantial announcements for it’s popular auto-shooter game.
That’s right, Vampire Survivors is finally making its way to both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 this summer. No specific date has been announced but it’s certainly not far away!
Not only that, but Poncle also released some information on it’s next DLC pack ‘Operation Guns’ which is a collaboration with Konami to bring classic shooter Contra to the Vampire Survivor world. The DLC will include:
- 11 gun-slinging characters
- 22 new weapons between base versions and evolutions. They’re not all guns – some of them trigger explosions too!
- 1 large stage and 1 bonus stage
- 13 music tracks directly from the Contra series and 6 brand new covers
- A 6-chapter Adventure
They released the following statement as part of the announcement:
“Today we are announcingÂ
Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns, our second collab DLC, made in collaboration with the KONAMI’s Contra team!
You might have noticed a couple of very obscure hints in Vampire Survivors about how much we admire and remember fondly playing all the iconic game series sparked by KONAMI over the years, which is why when we got the opportunity to work with their Contra team we took it immediately!
It’s been surreal and a lot of fun to retrieve old memories of playing Contra with randos at the arcade, or with friends on a home console, and reinterpret them in a Vampire Survivors sauce. In fact we got a bit carried away and added more content to the DLC pack than initially planned, trying to pick & mix some of the old and some of the new, some of the obvious and some of the unexpected.
This was yet another dream come true for many in our team, so thank you all for your continued support and making this a reality!
Will the agents of the Contra Force resist the urge to join the Vampire Survivors in their doomed search for a vampire? “
The new DLC launches on 9 May 2024 for all current platforms Xbox, Steam, Switch and mobile.
