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The Chinese Room's cofounder told Paradox 'we can't make Bloodlines 2' but then they did make Bloodlines 2 and it was like 'untangling an anaconda f***ball of competing priorities'

"We can't make Bloodlines 2, we can't make Skyrim, but we can make Dishonored."

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"We can't make Bloodlines 2, we can't make Skyrim, but we can make Dishonored" – After Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines sequel's critical flop, studio co-founder says "you couldn't get away with it now"

The Chinese Room's Dan Pinchbeck says the original "came out at a really interesting" time

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Bloodlines 2 update adds more customization options, and the developer is considering 'the ability to play only Phyre's side of the story on your second playthrough' for a future patch

"Skip to the end…"

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's biggest mistake is being called Bloodlines 2

A rose by any other name would… be quite a bit better, actually.

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All Cross of Saint James locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

What's art without a little blasphemy?

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All security camera locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Dismantle the I.A.O. surveillance state with Silky.

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All Anarch Tag locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Fletcher wants 30 Anarchy Tags scrubbed from existence.

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Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 review – an interestingly toothless piece of noir fiction

Arriving more than two decades after the original, this sequel was mired in development disaster – resulting in an interesting almost-failure

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 review

You get an identity crisis, you get an identity crisis, we all get an identity crisis!

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All the playable clans in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 and their clan abilities

Here's how to choose which vamps you want to call family in Bloodlines 2.

PC Gamer

Bloodlines 2’s new vision is smaller, tighter — and dividing fans

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s narrative director urges fans to expect a smaller, more focused story as concerns grow over cut features and the game’s troubled development.

Windows Central

No character creation, no guns, no clans. What happened to Bloodlines 2? — It’s not the game fans were promised

Discover every feature cut from Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, from character creation to RPG systems, ahead of its October 2025 release

Windows Central

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is not the faithful sequel I'd hoped to see, but maybe that's a bigger marker of progress than it seems

Opinion | I've come through the disappointment and emerged newly hopeful – for my own sanity

GamesRadar

I've played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game

They're ready to go and fit into the game perfectly, so why are they being sold separately?

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Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game's DLC clans, but it's not very convincing: 'We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land'

The long-awaited Bloodlines sequel will launch with six playable clans, but you'll need to pay extra for two of them.

GamesRadar

Bloodlines 2 devs rush to reattach foot blown off by day-one DLC paywalling 2 factions in an RPG about factions: "As you know, the date has pushed back, but that has been to fatten it out"

The Chinese Room has "made a huge amount of changes" over time

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 devs aren't "making GTA," so fans of the original action RPG shouldn't expect a "big, open world, sprawling game where the horizon is your limit"

They value "quantity of detail over scope"

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Bloodlines 2 studio The Chinese Room has bought its own independence, but also laid off employees in the process

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After 7 years and the "increasingly likely" chance it'd be sold off, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room is once again an independent studio

The devs wanted to "scratch the creative itch of continuing to work on new, original intellectual property"

MusicRadar

"It’s just $50, and it’s the best reverb for the buck": Video game soundtrack composer Jason Graves reveals his go-to reverb plugin behind the sounds of Still Wakes the Deep

After scoring Dead Space and Call of Duty, Graves' most recent video game project takes him offshore to a monster-infested oil rig

PC Gamer

Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has laid off employees, but Paradox says the game is still coming in October

A number of TCR employees revealed the layoffs on social media, and Paradox has effectively confirmed "staffing changes" at the studio.

PC Gamer

Oil rig horror game Still Wakes the Deep is going underwater in a surprise story expansion that arrives next week

Siren's Rest is set 10 years after the events of The Chinese Room's nautical horror game.

TechRadar

Still Wakes the Deep is getting a haunting new story expansion called Siren's Rest next week, set more than 10 years after the original game

The Chinese Room has announced Siren's Rest, a brand new story expansion for its 2024 horror game Still Wakes the Deep.

PC Gamer

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is getting a fancy art book from Dark Horse that'll shed some light on its rebooted development

The Art of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is set to release a month after the a long-awaited RPG.

PC Gamer

PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Plus: Den of Wolves, Revenge of the Savage Planet, FBC: Firebreak, Echoes of Elysium, gaming keyboards tested, and much more!

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