Bloodlines 2's first DLC arrives next week, and it'll let you wield guns and melee weapons properly, unlike the base game The DLC will offer a "new take" on the Brujah clan. PC Gamer · Apr 26
Bloodlines 2's Valentine's patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says 'I love you' like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal Love bite. PC Gamer · Feb 14
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." PC Gamer · Nov 24, 2025
"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 GamesRadar · Nov 24, 2025
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…" PC Gamer · Oct 31, 2025
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. PC Gamer · Oct 24, 2025
All Cross of Saint James locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 What's art without a little blasphemy? PC Gamer · Oct 22, 2025
All security camera locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Dismantle the I.A.O. surveillance state with Silky. PC Gamer · Oct 22, 2025
All Anarch Tag locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Fletcher wants 30 Anarchy Tags scrubbed from existence. PC Gamer · Oct 21, 2025
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 The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 review You get an identity crisis, you get an identity crisis, we all get an identity crisis! PC Gamer · Oct 17, 2025
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 · Oct 8, 2025
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 · Sep 15, 2025
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 · Aug 26, 2025
GamesRadar · Aug 23, 2025 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
PC Gamer · Aug 22, 2025 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?
PC Gamer · Aug 21, 2025 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 · Aug 21, 2025 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
GamesRadar · Jul 30, 2025 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"
PC Gamer · Jul 21, 2025 Bloodlines 2 studio The Chinese Room has bought its own independence, but also laid off employees in the process You win some, you lose some
GamesRadar · Jul 21, 2025 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 · Jun 30, 2025 "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 · Jun 23, 2025 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 · Jun 13, 2025 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 · Jun 12, 2025 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.