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You know it’s been a good year for horror when a genuine hit still slips through the cracks. Summer brought endless discussion of Obsession, The Backrooms, Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil and The End of Oak Street. All four pulled in nine-digit box office totals. Earlier in the year, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was...
A demo of the mystery detective game Quiet Express: Cabin 909 is now available on Steam. Players must find a nonexistent cabin and prevent a train disaster. Quiet Express: Cabin 909 is a mystery game with time loops. The train is doomed to crash in seven days, and the player has to stop it. The...
The Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes are now available on Nintendo Switch 2 as digital releases. Owners of the handheld console can replay these landmark entries in the franchise. The release lets players return to Raccoon City and relive key events from the series on a portable system. In Resident Evil 2 and...
The internet has made it much easier to find obscure comics from around the world. Examples include bandes dessinées, science-fiction serials and stories buried in old magazine anthologies. For every comic translated for release outside its home country, such as Valerian or Yoko Tsuno, dozens more never are. Many are long out of print and...
Publisher CygamesEdge has released a demo of Where the Seeds Fall on Steam and shown a cinematic trailer. The full game launches on November 5 on PC, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. The game follows a soldier who tries to escape the World Tree together with the Fallen Child, a creature that foretells doom...
Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have shown the first act of Stranger Than Heaven, which begins in 1915. Protagonist Makoto Daito flees the US for Japan to escape racism and hostility, and Snoop Dogg plays the ship’s captain. After arriving in Kokura-era Japan, Daito faces rejection even from his own compatriots. The story will...
Doug Cockle, who voices Geralt in The Witcher games, has shared a funny story from the run-up to the premiere of Netflix’s The Witcher season 1. Cockle recalled how Henry Cavill invited him to the London premiere of the Netflix series. In an interview with Ginx TV, the actor admitted that he didn’t believe the...
Saber Interactive’s boldness with Hellraiser: Revival has impressed the creator of the franchise. Hellraiser creator Clive Barker told Dread Central that he is “damn proud” of the game. He had feared the developers would have to make serious concessions to censorship, but he was pleasantly surprised by how far they managed to go. In Barker’s...
The big-screen adaptation of the iconic video game franchise Street Fighter claimed the top spot at the North American box office, earning roughly $31 million over its opening weekend. Released by Paramount and Legendary, the film debuted in 3,575 theaters. That figure falls short of the launch of Mortal Kombat II, which brought in $38.5...
Only two episodes remain in the anime adaptation of Tite Kubo’s manga. The team behind Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity has released a final trailer ahead of the last two episodes. The video recaps the events of the final arc and shows the paths Ichigo Kurosaki and Yhwach took before their decisive battle....
