Takayuki Nakayama, one of the developers for Street Fighter 6, let slip that there might have been some plans to make a new Darkstalkers game that has now been shelved.

Nakayama, was on X celebrating the 10th anniversary of the end of the game, Otoranger. In a follow up post he then stated that he had joined the Otoranger team, but before then was looking at making a fighting game that was not Street Fighter. He used a bat emoji which many have interpreted to mean Darkstalkers.

His replies were full of people wondering if the game will return and bemoaning the fact that there is no new Darkstalkers content.

Eventhubs, a fighting game news website, reported on this and got a reply from none other than Nakayama himself who then clarified that this might not be exactly what he meant, but will have to talk about it some other time if possible.

Darkstalkers was released in 1994 with two sequels from 1995 and 1997 respectively. It had a cult following as many praised its premise, characters, gothic aesthetic and gameplay. However, for all sorts of reasons, it hasn't gotten a sequel since. At most, it has been added to collections, but no new content.

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