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PC players will be happy to know that this Halloween that indie game developer Straight Back Games, is hosting an open Beta of their upcoming co-op game The Watchers. The beta starts Halloween and ends on November 3rd. If players are interested in signing up for the Beta, they can join The Watchers Discord and sign up in the #beta-signup channel. Each sign up will get two keys so they can play with a friend online. The Watchers follows twins Luisa and Frederico as they search for clues relating to the disappearance of their mother who was a cult leader. Their search will take them to the now-abandoned headquarters of the cult known as The Watchers of Azazel who’ve vanished after the twins’ mother became the cult’s new leader. The game is co-op and requires teamwork in order to solve puzzles, find objects, and avoid enemies that lurk around. Though there’s no jump scares in the game, it will have
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Protocol Games & Raiser Games announced that their upcoming psychological horror game Song of Horror, will terrify players this Halloween! Players take on the role, or should I say roles, of 1 of 13 playable characters as they investigate the disappearance of writer Sebastian P. Husher. Upon starting their investigation, players will soon realize that otherworldly forces the likes of which they never experienced in a game before is at work! As mentioned there are 13 playable characters in the game to choose from. Each character has their own back-story and their own unique way of interacting within the story. Why 13 characters you ask? Well there’s a permadeath mechanic in this game, meaning that once a character dies…that’s it. Once a character dies, a new one takes their place and picks up the investigation where they left off. What adds to the tension of Song of Horror is the fact that the game itself is non-scripted! The AI used
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Zombie headhunters rejoice! Rebellion had announced the release for their upcoming Nazi-Zombie gore-fest, Zombie Army 4: Dead War! Along with the release comes news that pre-orders are now available and include Hector, a playable British zombie paratrooper! Go solo or team up with friends as you battle your way through a post-war Mediterranean nightmare infested with Nazi zombies, demonically possessed tanks that spawn zombies, and other terrors that you must eliminate to survive! Keep an eye out as the collector’s edition is on its way as well and full of physical and digital collectibles that you can see in the collector’s edition trailer below! Along with the collector’s edition, there’s the Deluxe Edition that has additional items for characters, while the Super Deluxe Edition will include weapon skins, character outfit packs, three new campaign levels, and new weapons to just name a few! Zombie Army 4: Dead War will be out on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC February 4th,
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CD PROJEKT RED has announced today a photo contest inviting gamers and photography enthusiasts alike to capture the fictional world of Night City in the real world. Night City is the setting of the upcoming first-person game Cyberpunk 2077 where players must traverse the seedy underworld of the futuristic city with the aid of Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) who only players can see. If you’ve already seen the trailers and playthrough videos, it will probably make it easier for you to see what they’re looking for. If there’s something in your everyday life that looks like it would belong in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, snap a photo of it and submit it! Minor edits are allowed in pictures in which you must submit both the before and after picture. The contest (and time to submit photos) starts October 14th (TODAY!) and ends December 16th! So what do you get if your picture is selected and voted on by the
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You’ve heard of Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and you may have heard of Dieselpunk but the question is, are you ready for Frostpunk? The makers of This War of Mine, 11 Bit Studios, gave me the opportunity to play the console edition of their city-building game, Frostpunk. As mentioned, Frostpunk is a city-building game where players take on the role of the “Captain”, the leader of a band of survivors from London in an alternative universe where the world is plunged into a never-ending winter apocalypse. As the leader, you have to establish a city around a giant generator that’s also the only source of heat that will keep your people alive. You have to direct your people where to go and scavenge materials from the frozen wasteland to be used to either build industry, or power the generator. Along the way, you will be asked to make some choices that can affect the morale of your people. If you lose the
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PC gamers will be given the opportunity to challenge the gods in order to save their friends in their own Greek Epic Argonus and the Gods of Stone by indie game developer Zojoi, the makers of Shadowgate. Players take on the role of Argonus, who washed ashore after his ship Argo crashed against the strange land that he must now explore in order to find his compatriots, the Argonauts. Argonus will face many perils in the form of creatures from Greek Mythology, puzzles, and the Greek Gods themselves. Argonus’s journey is not entirely dire as he is aided by the goddess Athena. The game was inspired by the works of stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans) whose famed sword-wielding skeletons are one of the many foes you must encounter in this first-person experience. Argonus and the Gods of Stone is available now on Steam and Humble stores, along with the main game, the DLC
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Based on the popular original video game, Doom: Annihilation is an explosive, terrifying thrill ride, out now on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital from Universal Pictures. “On the darkest moon of Mars, scientists have found an ancient portal that allows teleportation throughout the universe. Considered to be mankind’s greatest discovery, it’s actually a gateway from hell, unleashing a swarm of demons looking to steal the souls of everyone who gets in their way. It’s up to Lieutenant Joan Dark and an elite unit of Marines to destroy an ever-growing horde of bloodsucking and soul-stealing beasts and prevent them from taking over planet earth.” Written and directed by Tony Giglio, Doom: Annihilation stars Nina Bergman, Amy Manson, Kate Nicholas, Lous Mandylor, Gina Phillips, and Jemma Morroe.
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Just last month, Creepy Jar released their psychological thriller survival simulation game Green Hell on STEAM and has received high praise for the unique approach to the genre. With the success of its release for the PC, Creepy Jar has announced that they plan on porting the game to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2020! Green Hell is a first-person exploration/survival game where players take on the role of a husband searching for his missing wife, Mia, in the Amazon Rainforest. While in the sweltering jungle, threats become prevalent as every step is a fight for survival. Players will have to bushcraft in order to survive the harsh jungle environment. Players will also have the ability to perform “body checks” where they can inspect their body for wounds and parasites that can affect the character’s health. Not only are the dangers in the player’s surroundings, but they’re also in the player’s mind where the character’s will is put to
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CAPCOM has announced at the Tokyo Game Show that they’re currently in works of developing a new five-player online co-op game set in the “Resident Evil” universe with the working title of Project Resistance. CAPCOM will make the game in partnership with NeoBards Entertainment. Four players take on the roles of survivors who are trapped in a twisted man-made game of survival with one player taking on the role of the “Mastermind” who controls what horrors awaits the team of survivors. Each survivor has a certain set of skills that will help aid their teammates as they go through the twisted mazes and obstacles that the Mastermind has put in place. Players must work together to solve puzzles and fight enemies that the Mastermind may unleash on them in order to escape before time runs out! The Mastermind has control of the environment and can track the movements of the four survivors through security cameras. The Mastermind can manipulate the
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Nothing puts you into the autumn mood than a stroll through the woods…creepy woods that is! Bloober Team were really awesome and shared with me their latest psychological horror masterpiece, Blair Witch, a game based on the 1999 cult classic found-footage film The Blair Witch Project that had such an intense marketing campaign that people really thought the film and the legend behind it were real. Without further ado, let’s take a spoiler-free look at Blair Witch It’s 1996 Players take on the role of Ellis, a former cop with a troubled past that seems to be on a mission of redemption to those around him as he voluntarily partakes in a search of a missing 9-year old boy who has gone missing in the Black Hills forest. This is not the first time Ellis was searching for anyone in these woods as a couple of years prior he helped look for three missing college students in the same woods.
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PC players will be happy to know that this Halloween that indie game developer Straight Back Games, is hosting an open Beta of their upcoming co-op game The Watchers. The beta starts Halloween and ends on November 3rd. If players are interested in signing up for the Beta, they can join The Watchers Discord and sign up in the #beta-signup channel. Each sign up will get two keys so they can play with a friend online. The Watchers follows twins Luisa and Frederico as they search for clues relating to the disappearance of their mother who was a cult leader. Their search will take them to the now-abandoned headquarters of the cult known as The Watchers of Azazel who’ve vanished after the twins’ mother became the cult’s new leader. The game is co-op and requires teamwork in order to solve puzzles, find objects, and avoid enemies that lurk around. Though there’s no jump scares in the game, it will have
Continue reading →
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Protocol Games & Raiser Games announced that their upcoming psychological horror game Song of Horror, will terrify players this Halloween! Players take on the role, or should I say roles, of 1 of 13 playable characters as they investigate the disappearance of writer Sebastian P. Husher. Upon starting their investigation, players will soon realize that otherworldly forces the likes of which they never experienced in a game before is at work! As mentioned there are 13 playable characters in the game to choose from. Each character has their own back-story and their own unique way of interacting within the story. Why 13 characters you ask? Well there’s a permadeath mechanic in this game, meaning that once a character dies…that’s it. Once a character dies, a new one takes their place and picks up the investigation where they left off. What adds to the tension of Song of Horror is the fact that the game itself is non-scripted! The AI used
Continue reading →
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Zombie headhunters rejoice! Rebellion had announced the release for their upcoming Nazi-Zombie gore-fest, Zombie Army 4: Dead War! Along with the release comes news that pre-orders are now available and include Hector, a playable British zombie paratrooper! Go solo or team up with friends as you battle your way through a post-war Mediterranean nightmare infested with Nazi zombies, demonically possessed tanks that spawn zombies, and other terrors that you must eliminate to survive! Keep an eye out as the collector’s edition is on its way as well and full of physical and digital collectibles that you can see in the collector’s edition trailer below! Along with the collector’s edition, there’s the Deluxe Edition that has additional items for characters, while the Super Deluxe Edition will include weapon skins, character outfit packs, three new campaign levels, and new weapons to just name a few! Zombie Army 4: Dead War will be out on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC February 4th,
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CD PROJEKT RED has announced today a photo contest inviting gamers and photography enthusiasts alike to capture the fictional world of Night City in the real world. Night City is the setting of the upcoming first-person game Cyberpunk 2077 where players must traverse the seedy underworld of the futuristic city with the aid of Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) who only players can see. If you’ve already seen the trailers and playthrough videos, it will probably make it easier for you to see what they’re looking for. If there’s something in your everyday life that looks like it would belong in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, snap a photo of it and submit it! Minor edits are allowed in pictures in which you must submit both the before and after picture. The contest (and time to submit photos) starts October 14th (TODAY!) and ends December 16th! So what do you get if your picture is selected and voted on by the
Continue reading →
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You’ve heard of Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and you may have heard of Dieselpunk but the question is, are you ready for Frostpunk? The makers of This War of Mine, 11 Bit Studios, gave me the opportunity to play the console edition of their city-building game, Frostpunk. As mentioned, Frostpunk is a city-building game where players take on the role of the “Captain”, the leader of a band of survivors from London in an alternative universe where the world is plunged into a never-ending winter apocalypse. As the leader, you have to establish a city around a giant generator that’s also the only source of heat that will keep your people alive. You have to direct your people where to go and scavenge materials from the frozen wasteland to be used to either build industry, or power the generator. Along the way, you will be asked to make some choices that can affect the morale of your people. If you lose the
Continue reading →
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PC gamers will be given the opportunity to challenge the gods in order to save their friends in their own Greek Epic Argonus and the Gods of Stone by indie game developer Zojoi, the makers of Shadowgate. Players take on the role of Argonus, who washed ashore after his ship Argo crashed against the strange land that he must now explore in order to find his compatriots, the Argonauts. Argonus will face many perils in the form of creatures from Greek Mythology, puzzles, and the Greek Gods themselves. Argonus’s journey is not entirely dire as he is aided by the goddess Athena. The game was inspired by the works of stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans) whose famed sword-wielding skeletons are one of the many foes you must encounter in this first-person experience. Argonus and the Gods of Stone is available now on Steam and Humble stores, along with the main game, the DLC
Continue reading →
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Based on the popular original video game, Doom: Annihilation is an explosive, terrifying thrill ride, out now on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital from Universal Pictures. “On the darkest moon of Mars, scientists have found an ancient portal that allows teleportation throughout the universe. Considered to be mankind’s greatest discovery, it’s actually a gateway from hell, unleashing a swarm of demons looking to steal the souls of everyone who gets in their way. It’s up to Lieutenant Joan Dark and an elite unit of Marines to destroy an ever-growing horde of bloodsucking and soul-stealing beasts and prevent them from taking over planet earth.” Written and directed by Tony Giglio, Doom: Annihilation stars Nina Bergman, Amy Manson, Kate Nicholas, Lous Mandylor, Gina Phillips, and Jemma Morroe.
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Just last month, Creepy Jar released their psychological thriller survival simulation game Green Hell on STEAM and has received high praise for the unique approach to the genre. With the success of its release for the PC, Creepy Jar has announced that they plan on porting the game to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2020! Green Hell is a first-person exploration/survival game where players take on the role of a husband searching for his missing wife, Mia, in the Amazon Rainforest. While in the sweltering jungle, threats become prevalent as every step is a fight for survival. Players will have to bushcraft in order to survive the harsh jungle environment. Players will also have the ability to perform “body checks” where they can inspect their body for wounds and parasites that can affect the character’s health. Not only are the dangers in the player’s surroundings, but they’re also in the player’s mind where the character’s will is put to
Continue reading →
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CAPCOM has announced at the Tokyo Game Show that they’re currently in works of developing a new five-player online co-op game set in the “Resident Evil” universe with the working title of Project Resistance. CAPCOM will make the game in partnership with NeoBards Entertainment. Four players take on the roles of survivors who are trapped in a twisted man-made game of survival with one player taking on the role of the “Mastermind” who controls what horrors awaits the team of survivors. Each survivor has a certain set of skills that will help aid their teammates as they go through the twisted mazes and obstacles that the Mastermind has put in place. Players must work together to solve puzzles and fight enemies that the Mastermind may unleash on them in order to escape before time runs out! The Mastermind has control of the environment and can track the movements of the four survivors through security cameras. The Mastermind can manipulate the
Continue reading →
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Nothing puts you into the autumn mood than a stroll through the woods…creepy woods that is! Bloober Team were really awesome and shared with me their latest psychological horror masterpiece, Blair Witch, a game based on the 1999 cult classic found-footage film The Blair Witch Project that had such an intense marketing campaign that people really thought the film and the legend behind it were real. Without further ado, let’s take a spoiler-free look at Blair Witch It’s 1996 Players take on the role of Ellis, a former cop with a troubled past that seems to be on a mission of redemption to those around him as he voluntarily partakes in a search of a missing 9-year old boy who has gone missing in the Black Hills forest. This is not the first time Ellis was searching for anyone in these woods as a couple of years prior he helped look for three missing college students in the same woods.
Continue reading →
