No official press release yet, but among the news published today on Frogwares Official Site is the announcement that

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A Sequel to Dracula Origin is in the works. Graf Dracula survived the last encounter with Professor Abraham Van Helsing, but he has now to fight to recover his full power. In this episode you will play as the Prince of Darkness, fighting your old sorrows and the competition of a fierce challenger to survive.
Venice, Paris, London, are on your agenda for this new adventure. Warm Blood will be your best friend, Garlic and stake your worst enemies!!!

A couple of artworks are shown, so let's hope to know a little bit more about this new adventure!

UPDATE: the game will be a casual adventure.

Plus, Sherlock Holmes vs Arsenio Lupin Remastered Edition is Gold!! The game is now proposing a 1st and 3rd person perspective, the help system as Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper and includes a progressive walkthrough if you are stuck. Game Graphics benefit latest graphics improvements of our engine as well as sounds.

I loved DRacula Origin, how exiting to play from the other perspective.

Thanks Carla!

Ana

Ooooooh !! Playing as Drac himself ??

Terrific !!

Thanks for that news, Carla

Great news! Thanks Carla.

Man, that gives me the creeps to think of playing Dracula himself, the GOOD creeps. I can't wait, but I guess I'll have to because unlike Dracula, I can't just fly out of the window, go the my lair, hide in my coffin, and sleep until the new game is out.

Jody

Playing as Dracula sounds interesting. I can't remember any game where you played as Dracula. As other vampires maybe, but not as Dracula himself.

And I'm glad to hear the remastered Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin hasn't been forgotten. I'd like to be able to finish that game.

Didn't like the ending of Origin, though I realize it made sense for Dracula to survive given the title. I'm more interested in sequel to A Vampire Story.

Thanks for the news, Carla! Sounds exciting.

How long is usually the wait time from "gone gold" to release?

Uh..... sort of depends. Usually a few weeks for the disk version? For a download -- a few days?

Sounds good, although I am a bit worried about the title of those screenshots (the "casual" bit).

I noticed it myself too Pollo, and I was hoping it's just a mistake because the news on the site above Dracul Origin is a casual game.
I'm waiting for more official news...

Oh Boy!!!!!!

Great news....I could never play Sherlock Holmes vs Arsenio Lupin because of motion sickness....

This is "Wonderful"

Thanks . Carla

Doesn't look like a hog, no stuff scattered around.

Unfortunately for us looks like it will be an adventure-casual, not a long length adventure game, still very interesting but...

What a disappointment, if that's the case !!

That's a shame that the Dracula sequel will be a casual game; I was really looking forward to playing as Dracula. Oh, well, I will wait for more information before I decide now.

Yes it sounded like a great idea for an adventure game. I enjoyed Dracula Origin and would have liked the same format for the sequel.

Oh, boo! I'm sad now about the 'casual' part..

I had so enjoyed the first Dracula Origin...

CSI NY was such a far cry from the other CSI's that I gave my copy away.

Why do they do this to existing Adventure franchises, instead of simply starting a brand-new line for each casual game series? I hate when they spread a franchise over both genres.

Because its cheap and lazy.

Well mj2c, obviously you have never played a Frogwares game, because they are far from cheap or lazy whether they are casual or adventure.

Ana

Ive played loads. These houses usually go from full games to casuals because of cost, no? Certainly not for artistic merit:-)

They switch to casuals because they sell better, not because they want to cut back on their talents. Frogware casual and many other casual developers produce top notch games.

Ana

With admittedly only partial information, my "take" is that the developers are making less and less money on disk versions of games, so that a higher percentage of their income is now coming from the download portals.

Many of the download portals don't distinguish between price -- so that (for instance) at BigFish, a full-fledged adventure game that cost (again, for instance) half a million USD to create is the same price as a casual game that took ten thousand USD to create.

So for a rapid infusion of cash (and who doesn't need that in the current economy?) it makes sense to make two or three casual games or even two or three episodic-like games, rather than one long, elaborate adventure game.

Just my guess.

That's sad news for those of us who prefer the long, elaborate adventure games. I hope we will still see successful adventure games being made, that they don't dwindle down significantly.