Capcom is reviving, revamping and repackaging fighting games almost faster than we can keep track of them but, if the latest rumor is correct, yet another series is set for a comeback. Specifically, DarkStalkers 4 is allegedly in the works, with Capcom's fighting guru Yoshinori Ono heading up the proceedings, according to a source at GamesBeat. The game will reportedly run on a modified version of the Street Fighter X Tekken engine.

Capcom has been quietly pushing the Darkstalkers series back into the public consciousness recently, having released the original Darkstalkers on PSN late last year, and a recent ESRB rating points to the possible PSN release of Darkstalkers 3 as well. The company also recently registered a new Darkstalkers trademark in Europe. For what it's worth, Capcom has been teasing the possibility of a return to Darkstalkers for several years now.

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Well, here we are in the rumor mill once again. Hopefully this time it's true though. In any case, I saw this headline and just came furiously all over my desk due to the excitement. We got any other hardcore Darkstalkers fans out there in the GB community? Mildly interested? Not interested at all? Discuss!

I guess the guy that leaked this also leaked a lot of other Capcom stuff, so I would believe a Darkstalkers 4 is coming.

The only Darkstalkers I played was that one on the PSP with awful load times. I don't know what makes them different from Street Fighter apart from the designs.

No Midnight Bliss, no sale.

So how are they gonna reconcile the difficulty of animating the myriad deformation-based attacks in 3D?

Isn't that an excuse they made at some point?

interesting that it will run on the SFx tekken engine, kind of excited to hear more.

@StarvingGamer said:

So how are they gonna reconcile the difficulty of animating the myriad deformation-based attacks in 3D? Isn't that an excuse they made at some point?

most likely by having less playable characters.

Mildly excited.

Enjoyed the original on my cousin's old Saturn, always liked the style.

My renewed interest in fighting games has already died out. Call me again in ten years.

HELL YES!!!!

My waning interest in fighting games has been reborn!

I still had a candle lit for hand drawn sprites as the series has always had amazing art work, but I know that would of been crazy since Capcom doesn't do that anymore. I just hope it plays like Darkstalkers 3.

@McGhee said:

My renewed interest in fighting games has already died out. Call me again in ten years.

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I've always been fasinated by the Darkstalkers character design. Pretty excited about this and I hope they use the SF4 art style.

Well after they had that image saying "Darkstalkers are not dead!" at Comic con, I would expect there to be at least something to do with Darkstalkers in the works.

@StarvingGamer said:

So how are they gonna reconcile the difficulty of animating the myriad deformation-based attacks in 3D? Isn't that an excuse they made at some point?

I guess the same way the handled Morrigan's Soul Eraser in MvC3: take it out.

Finally Capcom revives a fighting game franchise you can care about. No really Darkstalkers is the only Capcom fighter I care about.

@TechHits: I don't know how they would get away with that in the modern era of 30+ roster sizes in mainstream fighting games.

@WilltheMagicAsian: That would suck majorly because the crazy morphing is what gave Darkstalkers its unique flavor. I can't even imagine what they would do for Lord Raptor.

No Rival Schools, no sale.

Can't they just launch a new IP?

@StarvingGamer said:

@TechHits: I don't know how they would get away with that in the modern era of 30+ roster sizes in mainstream fighting games.

@WilltheMagicAsian: That would suck majorly because the crazy morphing is what gave Darkstalkers its unique flavor. I can't even imagine what they would do for Lord Raptor.

Yeah, it would, Darkstalkers just doesn't translate well to 3D. I really doubt they'd spend the time making this 2D though. Is it even confirmed if it's more like Vampire Hunter or Vampire Savior? I'd assume it's more like Savior if SFxT is the direction Capcom is heading towards with dial-a-combos.

I want this to happen too, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Yes, good, wish it was on that Xrd/DBF engine just for aesthetic reasons, but it's fine.

Man. Y'all got me excited for nothin'.

THIS IS THE MEANEST NECRO I'VE SEEN IN SO LONG. MY SOOOOOOUL