After recent rumours of a new DS Castlevania, Konami have finally announced what we all already knew; A new DS will be making its way to the DS by the end of the year. Titled Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, the game will introduce the new Glyph attack system. What that actually means is a complete mystery for now, but from the sounds of things it will involve combining something to do special attacks, with over 100 different possible combinations.

Order of Ecclesia will also include far more outdoor environments, ranging from Forests to Oceans, as well as the traditional areas of Dracula's castle. As you can expect the game will also include the usual insanely large weapons, and legions of dead/undead/living creatures for you to destroy, and the team seems to have gone back to the more traditional Castlevania artstyle for the character designs.

The game should be released in America this Autumn, so with any luck it'll be here before Christmas.