Well, two games by that developer were available on GOG in the past (somehow I missed/forgot the removal of Guilty Gear X2, thought only Isuka was affected), another more recent one was released here just recently (BlazBlue) and the original two BloodRayne games are still around. There's hope.

I'm wondering which publisher is behind the new game / who owns the franchise now.

Unfortunately i am not really excited for it. As you can see in the name of the webpage this one is called: Blood Rayne Counter Strike. It's a first person shooter with some vampire assets. You can earn money for buying better fangs and stuff but all in all nothing special.

I try to expect the worst & hope to be pleasently surprised ;)

hehe, was actually my first tought too when I read BRCS :D

In the famous words of Professor Farnsworth: "Eh wha?" ;)

Seriously though, where is that quote you people talk of? Am I blind or something?

That is sad. :(

What a shitty website design. Half of the letters are cut off the top of the screen and half are cut off on the bottom. I thought my zoom was set too high, but zooming out only shrinks the words in the center of the webpage. Tried both IE and Chrome with the same results.

While I appreciate the boobage, I have never liked the anime style of drawing. So, the game will be a pass for me. Most likely it will be a console exclusive for the PS4 or Wii.

Oh hell this isn't legit Bloodrayne is it? =(

I don't think we'll ever get a legit BloodRayne. And as much as I love Arc System Works and their Guilty Gear series, I highly doubt they'll be able to develop a BloodRayne game making justice to the classic ones we love.

I thought the new Legacy of Kain is already supposed to be just that.

I disagree: it's worse than that. Because what all LoK fans were waiting for was a multiplayer only arena game.

Well, that could have possibly been a factor, but what really happened is that NoScript prevented me from seeing it. Once I allowed their page to fully load the quote popped up alright.

so pretty much the same situation as the Mechwarrior reboot, then?

I think it's worse than the MechWarrior reboot, even though I never played a MechWarrior game. I assume MechWarrior fans don't particularly praise the excellent writing of the plot, the character development and the overall intertwined storyline, like the Legacy of Kain fans do.

We wanted a story-focused game, because that had always been the strongest aspect of the series, but we got a freaking mindless online multiplayer arena PvP battle game. Weeee. -_-

As far as I'm concerned, Legacy of Kain ended with Defiance, this new thing is just some completely unrelated piece of crap set in a world with the same name.

So who owns the Bloodrayne IP now? Terminal Reality went bankrupt some time ago but nobody said anything about their IPs.