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Konami’s told VG247 the Collector’s Edition for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has not been cancelled.

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Konami’s released the 360 demo of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow in the run-up to its release this week.

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[Going to Eurogamer Expo? Of course you are. Here, Keza MacDonald brings you the main highlights of the show and what games from the remainder of 2010 and 2011 you should be playing this weekend at Earls Court.]

Heading to London for the Eurogamer Expo this weekend? Or wondering what you’re missing? Here’s a day-by-day rundown of who and what will be at the show. Highlights: Gears of War 3, a Peter Molyneux presentation that’s sure to be eminently quotable, LittleBigPlanet 2, Killzone 3, Dragon Age II and squillions more!

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Reviews are going live for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and it looks as though critics are pretty pleased with Mercury Steam’s revamp of the classic franchise.

The lowest score so far is an 8/10, and we’ve grabbed as many as we’ve seen so far, and posted the list below the break.

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Konami has sent over some lovely screens and a release date for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

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Gamerzines has outed a Collector’s Edition for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, retailing on a Mexican retailer.

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow producer Dave Cox has revealed to XBW 360 that the game will ship with two discs on 360 compared to one Blu-ray on PS3.

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Update: Now with more E3 trailer!

Original: Konami announced that Mercury Steam’s take on the Castlevania franchise, Lords of Shadow will be released this fall.

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow’s Dave Cox has revealed that the game started out as a remake of the original 8-bit classic.

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Castlevania: Lord of Shadow producer Dave Cox has revealed that the game would not be as good if it wasn’t for Hideo Kojima’s “experience and wisdom”.

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Dave Cox, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow’s producer, has said the game will last “around 15 hours for an average player”.

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Hideo Kojima has reiterated that his production company is playing more of a supervisory role than anything else with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

He said this already when it was announced at E3, but apparently, he wants to make sure everyone knows it. It’s really Konami Europe’s Dave Cox and Mercury Steam’s baby.

“Kojima Productions is playing more of a support role,” Kojima told to Famitsu. “Castlevania is one of Konami’s most important brands, one that’s seen many releases since the original, and they’ve all been received warmly, but there’s never been a Castlevania created to really satisfy Western gamers. People like Dave were influenced by Castlevania to become game designers, and now they’re making titles like God of War.

“This has become a big project, one with the idea that we needed to make a Castlevania which had that same kind of feverish Western support, and that’s why Kojima Productions came in to help. I think it’s safe to look forward to this title both as a Castlevania game and as an action game.

“It’s got great gameplay and great action, and the graphics are good even to Japanese eyes,” he added.

Kojima’s role so far, he says, is “having them fix things based on my objective viewpoint”, like reworking the hero’s face, which Kojima felt needed to be more “heroic”.

More over on 1UP.

Here. According to that rather sketchy translation, Spanish developer Mercury Steam is working with Konami on an unknown console game for release on PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2009 or 2010. Mercury Steam did Clive Barker’s Jericho for Codemasters last year.