{"id":2049483,"date":"2026-07-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2049483"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:00:00","slug":"the-full-blood-of-dawnwalker-game-will-be-released-on-disc-bandai-namco-and-rebel-wolves-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2049483","title":{"rendered":"The full Blood of Dawnwalker game will be released on disc, Bandai Namco and Rebel Wolves confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/dawnwalker\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      The Blood of Dawnwalker<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">The full Blood of Dawnwalker game will be released on disc, Bandai Namco and Rebel Wolves confirm<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Fang goodness.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/brencis-danwalker-artwork.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A bald-headed, ferocious looking soldier, who looks like they&apos;ve lost all vitality and life from their visage. Probably because they have - it&apos;s the lead vampire from The Blood of Dawnwalker. Brencis. Behind him, a sun is eclipsed.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"brencis-danwalker-artwork.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Rebel Wolves<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-07-18T10:00:00+00:00\">July 18, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"e7789384-9df1-48f6-8ae4-d1182c849deb\" data-name=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker\" data-follow-text=\"Follow The Blood of Dawnwalker\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following The Blood of Dawnwalker\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow The Blood of Dawnwalker\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following The Blood of Dawnwalker\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow The Blood of Dawnwalker\" title=\"Follow The Blood of Dawnwalker\"><br \/>\n  Follow The Blood of Dawnwalker<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Promising new medieval vampire role-playing game The Blood of Dawnwalker will be, hallelujah, released on a good old fashioned disc.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, told me this in an interview recently, smiling and stating simply that: &#8220;Yes, it is coming to the disc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But not all game-discs are made equally. By that I mean that some game discs behave more as glorified passcodes for the game, as a way of proving ownership before you&#8217;re made to download the full game from the store of whichever console you&#8217;re playing on. These discs would serve little worth years from now if such a game was made unavailable to download.<\/p>\n<p>The Blood of Dawnwalker disc, however, will contain the full game. &#8220;The full game data is on disc,&#8221; publisher Bandai Namco clarified for me today, &#8220;with a day-one patch recommended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker - Official Story Teaser Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7jHZfUfG5vU?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/7jHZfUfG5vU\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The Blood of Dawnwalker &#8211; Official Story Teaser Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>The Blood of Dawnwalker.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jHZfUfG5vU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bizarre topic to raise with a game-maker in an interview, and yet, following Sony&#8217;s revelation that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-ending-playstation-discs-physical-media-january-2028\">stop producing PlayStation game discs by 2028<\/a>, and Rockstar&#8217;s revelation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/grand-theft-auto-6-preorders-gta6-no-disc\">Grand Theft Auto 6 will come with a code inside a game box<\/a>, it&#8217;s become suddenly very topical. And it&#8217;s a decision of Sony&#8217;s that&#8217;s clearly hit a nerve, as people continue to decry it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/marvels-wolverine-story-trailer-sony-disc-outrage\">even in comments for games like Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine that <em>will <\/em>come on a disc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-blood-of-dawnwalker-hands-on-preview\">The Blood of Dawnwalker is due 3rd September, and I played four hours of it recently<\/a> and was enormously encouraged by it. I thought the combat had depth and that the game&#8217;s big ideas around sandbox freedom and time being limited worked really well. It&#8217;s already one of the more interesting RPGs of recent years; potentially it&#8217;s another breakout success.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Promising new medieval vampire role-playing game The Blood of Dawnwalker will be, hallelujah, released on a good old fashioned disc.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, told me this in an interview recently, smiling and stating simply that: &#8220;Yes, it is coming to the disc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But not all game-discs are made equally. By that I mean that some game discs behave more as glorified passcodes for the game, as a way of proving ownership before you&#8217;re made to download the full game from the store of whichever console you&#8217;re playing on. These discs would serve little worth years from now if such a game was made unavailable to download.<\/p>\n<p>The Blood of Dawnwalker disc, however, will contain the full game. &#8220;The full game data is on disc,&#8221; publisher Bandai Namco clarified for me today, &#8220;with a day-one patch recommended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker - Official Story Teaser Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7jHZfUfG5vU?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/7jHZfUfG5vU\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The Blood of Dawnwalker &#8211; Official Story Teaser Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>The Blood of Dawnwalker.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jHZfUfG5vU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bizarre topic to raise with a game-maker in an interview, and yet, following Sony&#8217;s revelation that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-ending-playstation-discs-physical-media-january-2028\">stop producing PlayStation game discs by 2028<\/a>, and Rockstar&#8217;s revelation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/grand-theft-auto-6-preorders-gta6-no-disc\">Grand Theft Auto 6 will come with a code inside a game box<\/a>, it&#8217;s become suddenly very topical. And it&#8217;s a decision of Sony&#8217;s that&#8217;s clearly hit a nerve, as people continue to decry it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/marvels-wolverine-story-trailer-sony-disc-outrage\">even in comments for games like Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine that <em>will <\/em>come on a disc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-blood-of-dawnwalker-hands-on-preview\">The Blood of Dawnwalker is due 3rd September, and I played four hours of it recently<\/a> and was enormously encouraged by it. I thought the combat had depth and that the game&#8217;s big ideas around sandbox freedom and time being limited worked really well. It&#8217;s already one of the more interesting RPGs of recent years; potentially it&#8217;s another breakout success.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News The Blood of Dawnwalker The full Blood of Dawnwalker game will be released on disc, Bandai Namco and Rebel Wolves confirm Fang goodness. 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