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Horror games, from survival horror and indie scares to tabletop Kickstarters — news, releases and the ones that actually terrify.
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Mondo has announced that they are currently developing a new genre board game based on John Carpenter’s classic ‘The Thing’. In the game, titled ‘Infection at Outpost 31’, players race to find out who among them is infected by the creature featured from the film. The game is the first to be created from Mondo’s new partnership with with Project Raygun, an initiative from the board game company USAopoly. The game’s art will be created by Phantom City Creative’s Justin Erickson. When we set out to create the first licensed Mondo board game the biggest question was; what film property would we go after?” Mondo Brand Director Jay Shaw said in a statement. “So many of the films we celebrate at Mondo would be an absolute blast in game form. As soon as John Carpenter’s suspense masterpiece The Thing was mentioned it very quickly became our top choice. The next step was to figure out how to actually make a
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Netflix has announced a new original series, ‘Castlevania’. The “super violent” series, likely to be animated, will be helmed by Adi Shankhar (Judge Dredd) and Federator (Adventure Time). ‘Castlevania’, also known in Japanese as ‘Akumajō Dracula’, is based on the video game franchise by the same name . The game series, first released in 1986, was created and developed by Konami, an centers on the Belmont family, a clan of vampire hunters, and their battle with Lord Alucard. Netflix has not released and other details about the upcoming series other than we will see it premiere later this year. But we will keep you posted. Check out the ‘Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Gameplay Trailer’ below, via IGN.
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Kickstarter has had its share of successful campaigns, but one horror board game is take that to a new level. ‘Kingdom of Death: Monster 1.5’ set a goal of $100,000, but has now raised $8,415, 136. Yes, you read that right. A board game has raised over $8 million dollars from backers and there is still four days remaining in the campaign. ‘Kingdom of Death’, an expansion of the 2012 game, is described as a “cooperative nightmare horror game experience” in which you attempt to build your settlement in a world filled with monsters. “A cooperative nightmare horror game experience. Hunt intelligent monsters and develop your settlement through a self-running campaign. Kingdom Death Monster is an massive cooperative board game about survival in a nightmare-horror world. Survivors fight for their lives against an onslaught of bizarre and fearsome creatures. They will use the fruits of these battles to build a fragile civilization in a place where humans are at the
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Be honest, you have all wondered if your house, or the building down the street, is haunted. There’s now an app for that. Asif Ghafoor, the founder and CEO of Spacious, an online real estate company in Hong Kong, was inspired by Pokemon Go and augmented reality to create the app that reveals potentially haunted places and tells you how people at the location died. It focuses mainly on real estate where people were murdered or committed suicide. Augmented reality is something we’d been thinking about for a while. After Pokemon Go came out at the end of July, the success of that made us realize the potential for our app. We think it’s a technology first. We don’t think anyone else has done this before. Ghafoor stated.” The app is easy to use. After you have downloaded the app, simply point your phone down the street on real estate that is up for sale or rent. Then point the
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Roma Perezogin, an indie game developer, has created a game titled ‘Darkness Anomaly’. Roma has entered his project into The Cryengine competition in hopes of being one of the three winning contestants to split a 1 million dollar prize. Roma has worked on ‘Darkness Anomaly’ alone for the past 2 years and is working towards getting the realistic horror game released. From the Press Release: Darkness Anomaly is a thrilling and innovative open world horror game, with an unique technique of exploring and story telling that we came up with. You will experience the horror on a whole new level. With realistic environment, event-tracking, an amazing storyline in which you make the decisions and its required to pay attention to every little detail in this game. Cryengine gives us the possibility to create a realistic world, a whole town to explore and investigate in, combined with the opportunity that Crytek gives us: Virtual Reality. I would like to tell you
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Beta Test Written and Directed by: Nicholas Gyeney Starring: Manu Bennet, Larenz Tate, Linden Ashby, Sara Coates The correlation of violence in video games leading to violent behavior in real life – it’s a hotly debated topic everyone has an opinion on, whether they’ll admit it or not. Andrew Kincaid, the big boss at a gaming industry giant called Sentinel. is no different. Kincaid thinks that guns in games can be more therapeutic than harmful. His rationale being that the digital release of aggression can be cathartic, making it less likely that said aggression will pour over into the real world. Kincaid and Sentinel’s chief security officer, Orson Creed, seem to be at odds on this issue. Creed is rumored to be pushing for Sentinel to be contractors, creating tech for military use. Kincaid is focused rather on giving players the highest level of game interactivity, and Creed is about to find out just how interactive it can get. A
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Are you bored? Has game night with friends and family become monotonous? Need a new game to play? Have you ever thought about killing someone who cuts you off in traffic? Do you have an interest in serial killers? If the answer is yes, we have the perfect game for you! Culture Heroes has a brand new board game, The Serial Killer Trivia Game. Players can choose to play as Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Aileen Wuornos, Albert Fish or Ted Bundy and set out on a murderous rampage (on the board). As you move across the board you draw scenario cards to reveal your murder methods. The first player to claim five victims wins. Take a stab at it. You’ll have a killer good time. Yes, the game is very real and you can buy it now Amazon. I stumbled across the game while I was looking for a book last night and it caught my eye.
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Last month Space Goat Productions, the company behind the Evil Dead comics, announced that their new Evil Dead 2 game would soon begin its Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is live and has already raised almost double it’s goal of $70,000, with 30 days to go. The campaign is offering great perks. Check it out! Space Goat President Shon Bury states, “We’ve built a reputation with the Evil Dead books of really being able to please core Evil Dead fans. We’re going to do the same thing with the official board game. Evil Dead is such a great world to work in. Making a brutal survival horror game filled with jokes and exciting gameplay just came naturally. Designer Taylor Smith said. “It’s a cooperative game with a twist: Players can turn evil and go after their former allies, who then have to decide to save their Deadite friends or put them down for good and carry on with the mission. From
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Imagine a world where your character in a video game unknowingly controls real person’s actions. That’s what the premise of the new film, titled Beta Test, from producer/writer/director Nicholas Gyeney. Starring Arrow’s Manu Bennett and Larenz Tale (House of Lies), Yuji Okumoto (Inception), and Linden Ashby (Teen Wolf), Betta Test is produced by Mirror Images LTD. From the Press Release: The film’s storyline revolves around Max Troy (Tate, House of Lies, Hush), a Seattle-based video game champion and game tester who is about to test the latest game sensation from global video game juggernaut, Sentinel. As Max begins procedural dissection of the game, he begins to realize this new game is not like any other. As Max completes new tasks, events in the real world begin to mirror them. Soon, Max uncovers a deep-rooted conspiracy from within the walls of Sentinel, which leads him to discover that the game’s protagonist, Orson Creed (Arrow), is a real man, in the real
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Space Goat Play (a division of Space Goat Productions) has announced the launch of their Kickstarter campaign for their official Evil Dead 2 board game created in conjunction with Studiocanal. Space Goat is not new to Evil Dead, they also releases the Evil Dead comic series. Space Goat President Shon Bury states, “We’ve built a reputation with the Evil Dead books of really being able to please core Evil Dead fans. We’re going to do the same thing with the official board game. Evil Dead is such a great world to work in. Making a brutal survival horror game filled with jokes and exciting gameplay just came naturally. Designer Taylor Smith said. “It’s a cooperative game with a twist: Players can turn evil and go after their former allies, who then have to decide to save their Deadite friends or put them down for good and carry on with the mission. The game its self is a “…tile and miniature-based
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Mondo has announced that they are currently developing a new genre board game based on John Carpenter’s classic ‘The Thing’. In the game, titled ‘Infection at Outpost 31’, players race to find out who among them is infected by the creature featured from the film. The game is the first to be created from Mondo’s new partnership with with Project Raygun, an initiative from the board game company USAopoly. The game’s art will be created by Phantom City Creative’s Justin Erickson. When we set out to create the first licensed Mondo board game the biggest question was; what film property would we go after?” Mondo Brand Director Jay Shaw said in a statement. “So many of the films we celebrate at Mondo would be an absolute blast in game form. As soon as John Carpenter’s suspense masterpiece The Thing was mentioned it very quickly became our top choice. The next step was to figure out how to actually make a
Continue reading →
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Netflix has announced a new original series, ‘Castlevania’. The “super violent” series, likely to be animated, will be helmed by Adi Shankhar (Judge Dredd) and Federator (Adventure Time). ‘Castlevania’, also known in Japanese as ‘Akumajō Dracula’, is based on the video game franchise by the same name . The game series, first released in 1986, was created and developed by Konami, an centers on the Belmont family, a clan of vampire hunters, and their battle with Lord Alucard. Netflix has not released and other details about the upcoming series other than we will see it premiere later this year. But we will keep you posted. Check out the ‘Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Gameplay Trailer’ below, via IGN.
Continue reading →
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Kickstarter has had its share of successful campaigns, but one horror board game is take that to a new level. ‘Kingdom of Death: Monster 1.5’ set a goal of $100,000, but has now raised $8,415, 136. Yes, you read that right. A board game has raised over $8 million dollars from backers and there is still four days remaining in the campaign. ‘Kingdom of Death’, an expansion of the 2012 game, is described as a “cooperative nightmare horror game experience” in which you attempt to build your settlement in a world filled with monsters. “A cooperative nightmare horror game experience. Hunt intelligent monsters and develop your settlement through a self-running campaign. Kingdom Death Monster is an massive cooperative board game about survival in a nightmare-horror world. Survivors fight for their lives against an onslaught of bizarre and fearsome creatures. They will use the fruits of these battles to build a fragile civilization in a place where humans are at the
Continue reading →
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Be honest, you have all wondered if your house, or the building down the street, is haunted. There’s now an app for that. Asif Ghafoor, the founder and CEO of Spacious, an online real estate company in Hong Kong, was inspired by Pokemon Go and augmented reality to create the app that reveals potentially haunted places and tells you how people at the location died. It focuses mainly on real estate where people were murdered or committed suicide. Augmented reality is something we’d been thinking about for a while. After Pokemon Go came out at the end of July, the success of that made us realize the potential for our app. We think it’s a technology first. We don’t think anyone else has done this before. Ghafoor stated.” The app is easy to use. After you have downloaded the app, simply point your phone down the street on real estate that is up for sale or rent. Then point the
Continue reading →
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Roma Perezogin, an indie game developer, has created a game titled ‘Darkness Anomaly’. Roma has entered his project into The Cryengine competition in hopes of being one of the three winning contestants to split a 1 million dollar prize. Roma has worked on ‘Darkness Anomaly’ alone for the past 2 years and is working towards getting the realistic horror game released. From the Press Release: Darkness Anomaly is a thrilling and innovative open world horror game, with an unique technique of exploring and story telling that we came up with. You will experience the horror on a whole new level. With realistic environment, event-tracking, an amazing storyline in which you make the decisions and its required to pay attention to every little detail in this game. Cryengine gives us the possibility to create a realistic world, a whole town to explore and investigate in, combined with the opportunity that Crytek gives us: Virtual Reality. I would like to tell you
Continue reading →
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Beta Test Written and Directed by: Nicholas Gyeney Starring: Manu Bennet, Larenz Tate, Linden Ashby, Sara Coates The correlation of violence in video games leading to violent behavior in real life – it’s a hotly debated topic everyone has an opinion on, whether they’ll admit it or not. Andrew Kincaid, the big boss at a gaming industry giant called Sentinel. is no different. Kincaid thinks that guns in games can be more therapeutic than harmful. His rationale being that the digital release of aggression can be cathartic, making it less likely that said aggression will pour over into the real world. Kincaid and Sentinel’s chief security officer, Orson Creed, seem to be at odds on this issue. Creed is rumored to be pushing for Sentinel to be contractors, creating tech for military use. Kincaid is focused rather on giving players the highest level of game interactivity, and Creed is about to find out just how interactive it can get. A
Continue reading →
Gaming
Are you bored? Has game night with friends and family become monotonous? Need a new game to play? Have you ever thought about killing someone who cuts you off in traffic? Do you have an interest in serial killers? If the answer is yes, we have the perfect game for you! Culture Heroes has a brand new board game, The Serial Killer Trivia Game. Players can choose to play as Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Aileen Wuornos, Albert Fish or Ted Bundy and set out on a murderous rampage (on the board). As you move across the board you draw scenario cards to reveal your murder methods. The first player to claim five victims wins. Take a stab at it. You’ll have a killer good time. Yes, the game is very real and you can buy it now Amazon. I stumbled across the game while I was looking for a book last night and it caught my eye.
Continue reading →
Gaming
Last month Space Goat Productions, the company behind the Evil Dead comics, announced that their new Evil Dead 2 game would soon begin its Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is live and has already raised almost double it’s goal of $70,000, with 30 days to go. The campaign is offering great perks. Check it out! Space Goat President Shon Bury states, “We’ve built a reputation with the Evil Dead books of really being able to please core Evil Dead fans. We’re going to do the same thing with the official board game. Evil Dead is such a great world to work in. Making a brutal survival horror game filled with jokes and exciting gameplay just came naturally. Designer Taylor Smith said. “It’s a cooperative game with a twist: Players can turn evil and go after their former allies, who then have to decide to save their Deadite friends or put them down for good and carry on with the mission. From
Continue reading →
Gaming
Imagine a world where your character in a video game unknowingly controls real person’s actions. That’s what the premise of the new film, titled Beta Test, from producer/writer/director Nicholas Gyeney. Starring Arrow’s Manu Bennett and Larenz Tale (House of Lies), Yuji Okumoto (Inception), and Linden Ashby (Teen Wolf), Betta Test is produced by Mirror Images LTD. From the Press Release: The film’s storyline revolves around Max Troy (Tate, House of Lies, Hush), a Seattle-based video game champion and game tester who is about to test the latest game sensation from global video game juggernaut, Sentinel. As Max begins procedural dissection of the game, he begins to realize this new game is not like any other. As Max completes new tasks, events in the real world begin to mirror them. Soon, Max uncovers a deep-rooted conspiracy from within the walls of Sentinel, which leads him to discover that the game’s protagonist, Orson Creed (Arrow), is a real man, in the real
Continue reading →
Gaming
Space Goat Play (a division of Space Goat Productions) has announced the launch of their Kickstarter campaign for their official Evil Dead 2 board game created in conjunction with Studiocanal. Space Goat is not new to Evil Dead, they also releases the Evil Dead comic series. Space Goat President Shon Bury states, “We’ve built a reputation with the Evil Dead books of really being able to please core Evil Dead fans. We’re going to do the same thing with the official board game. Evil Dead is such a great world to work in. Making a brutal survival horror game filled with jokes and exciting gameplay just came naturally. Designer Taylor Smith said. “It’s a cooperative game with a twist: Players can turn evil and go after their former allies, who then have to decide to save their Deadite friends or put them down for good and carry on with the mission. The game its self is a “…tile and miniature-based
Continue reading →
