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‘Volumes Of Blood’ Anthology Gets Its Own Game!

Earlier this year, the terrifying anthology film Volumes of Blood arrived and fans were thrilled. Now, Blood Moon Pictures and Mythmaker Games have teamed up for the newest in table-top terror, Volumes of Blood: Body Count, a card game. In the game, players “take on the role of a horror film director and use killers, locations, weapons, and characters from the Volumes of Blood cinematic universe as you face off against your opponents to create a scene of carnage and build the largest body count. Volumes of Blood: Body Count is fun for the whole dysfunctional family.” The anthology centers on a couple who “plans to purchase an old home but would like one last tour before the closing. They’re guided around the estate by a creepy realtor that may have more in store than they bargained for. Searching floor by floor, they begin to discover the remnants of its sordid and terrifying past… A popular 80’s franchise gets a

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Feb 21, 2018
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Fans Can Now Play ‘The Evil Within 2’ In First-Person

Bethesda just announced today that their terrifying game The Evil Within 2 got a free update, you can now play the game in first-person. The game is normally third–person, but in one part of the game, where players must navigate a trap-filled maze while avoiding a stalking enemy, it’s in first-person. Players really liked the added tension the first person perspective gave; some who played the game on PC found a way to glitch it so the whole game could be played that way. The developers were not upset by this but instead embraced it and made the update for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Players who don’t own the game yet are able to try a free demo of the newly updated game and play the first couple of chapters, to add to this awesome gift the saved data from the demo will be transferred over to the full game if the player chooses to get the whole

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Feb 14, 2018
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‘Five Night’s At Freddy’s’ Movie Finds Its Director

After lingering in development for what seems like forever, a director for the Five Nights at Freddy’s adaptation has been found. Blumhouse announced via Twitter that Chris Columbus will be in the director’s chair. Mr. Columbus, are you ready for Freddy? #FiveNightsatFreddys pic.twitter.com/4F7QEnw16x — Blumhouse (@blumhouse) February 12, 2018 Columbus is most well known for having a history of directing family-friendly films like Harry Potter, Mrs, Doubtfire, and Home Alone, but he is not new to the horror genre having penned the script for Gremlins. The upcoming film is based on the Five Nights at Freddy’s video game which challenges players to survive for five nights. Players are put in the role of a security guard in a pizza restaurant who must survive the possessed animatronic characters who roam the restaurant looking for their next kill. First released back in 2014, the game has had five sequels.

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Feb 13, 2018
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9 Zombie Video Game Clichés That Need To Stop

Zombies are fun. Zombie movies are fun to watch. Zombie video games are more fun! There’s nothing like taking your frustrations out on a bunch of virtual undead eating machines and coming out on top. Some games offer you this and then some but over time there are elements in these games that have been done once or twice that start to become overused to the point that they become an annoying cliché that makes the genre repetitive and no longer fun. Since many developers are starting to get into the “immersion” fad. In gaming, culture immersion is when developers want the player(s) to feel like they are literally in the game, generally, this is applied towards VR devices like Oculus Rift but this practice is starting to find its way into non-VR games. For example, the winter sports game Steep the game can only be played online in a public lobby which many gaming fans find annoying (which it

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Feb 11, 2018
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Death Is Permanent In ‘Song Of Horror’

When you die in a video game, usually you restart from a checkpoint or where you last saved, but many gamers like a challenge, now comes the gaming term that either excites or terrifies players, “permadeath”. Permadeath is a gaming slang term for “permanent death” means exactly as it sounds, when you die in a game that’s it, game over, you must now start from scratch. Most games either don’t have this mechanic as it’s more or less a personal challenge made by the player themselves or in some games like Wolfenstein: New Colossus it’s a difficulty that you can unlock, but for upcoming survival horror game Song of Horror by Protocol Games it’s the game’s main feature. To ease your concerns about the permadeath mechanic in Song of Horror, it’s only permanent for one of 16 playable characters, that’s right, you can control 16 different characters! The game’s protagonist, Daniel Noyer, is at the center of the game’s story

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Feb 4, 2018
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New Enemies Await In ‘Metal Gear: Survive’

Fans and gamers will return to the stealthy futuristic world of Metal Gear in the first upcoming game since Hideo Kojima left Konami in 2015. Kojima was the father of the Metal Gear series and the next installment of the game Metal Gear Survive will be the first Metal Gear game he was not involved in. Metal Gear: Survive takes place between the games Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that will take players literally to another world. The story is about a group of soldiers who are sucked into a wormhole and transported into another world that’s full of beings known as the “creatures” resembling zombies. Players can play solo with AI teammates or actually team up with other players to survive this open world game with the objective to recovers parts needed to get you and your teammates home. The game will require internet so players can use the microtransactions

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Feb 4, 2018
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How Will You Survive In ‘Vampyr’?

DONTNOD Entertainment who is known for their popular episodic hit Life is Strange will take players to the streets of London in their new game Vampyr. It’s London during the 1918 flu pandemic and Doctor Jonathan E. Reid struggles with his new affliction no he does not have the flu, he just became a vampire. Players take control of Reid as he tries to keep to his Hippocratic Oath of doing no harm but at the same time, he needs to feed on blood to survive. Players help Reid make decisions which can affect London. Player’s decisions can impact the lives in London by keeping things calm or causing its destruction. Reid can unlock abilities every time he feeds but he can also complete the game by not killing anyone at all, he just won’t gain abilities. The game will have four different endings that can be unlocked depending on the actions players make. Reid has the ability to turn

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Feb 3, 2018
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What Secrets Hide In ‘Remothered: Tormented Fathers’?

2018 seems to be the year for horror video games that want to make you not just experience a game but you feel like your partaking in a horror movie, I Love It! Darriil Arts brings the terror in the soon to be released horror game, Remothered: Tormented Fathers a survival horror game resembling The Evil Within, Clock Tower, and Amnesia, in mechanics and style. You not only have to investigate to uncover the truth but you have to hide from enemies and use button smash techniques to survive your encounters with enemies. Players take on the role of Rosemary Reed, visiting Dr. Felton who’s sick with an unknown illness and is being cared for by a nurse named Gloria. Rosemary’s true reasoning behind coming to Felton’s home will turn her visit into a nightmare as Rosemary begins to investigate the disappearance of Felton’s daughter Celeste. Rosemary Believes the disappearance is part of some massacre that was kept secret and

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Feb 1, 2018
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‘Clue’ Remake In The Works

Fox is letting Ryan Reynolds extend his wings and going solo with producing his first movie with his company Maximum Effort and the movie he’ll be working on, a live-action adaptation of the popular board game Clue. No details of the story had been released but Reynolds will be teaming up with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who he has already worked with before on both Deadpool films. A film version of the game already exists and attempts to remake it has come up in 2011 and 2016 with the projects being abandoned. The original film was made in 1985 and starred Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren. The comedic twist of the game’s storyline where Curry’s character, the butler Wadsworth, takes the colorful characters on a marathon of sleuthing to solve the murder of Mr. Boddy who was murdered by one of the guests he was blackmailing. The film

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Jan 26, 2018
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John Cena In Talks To Star As Duke Nukem

Paramount Pictures is gearing up for a video game to film adaption of Duke Nukem. Last year during the E3 Convention Gearbox Studios CEO Randy Pitchford revealed that the adaption was in the works and that they were looking for a studio. Paramount snagged the film and are now searching for both a writer and a director. The studio was eyeing WWE wrestler turned actor John Cena, who has now entered negotiations to play the title character, Duke Nukem, a cigar-chomping, flat-top having, sunglasses-wearing firearm expert with serious strength. In the games, Duke is on a mission to fight aliens to protect Earth. Duke Nukem, developed by Apogee Software, was first released in 1991 for PC gamers and has spawned 18 games released on multiple platforms. Platinum Dunes, the company owned by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller, will be producing. Bay is behind films like Transformers, Bad Boys, The Rock, and many others. You know that means, we

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Jan 23, 2018

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‘Volumes Of Blood’ Anthology Gets Its Own Game!

Earlier this year, the terrifying anthology film Volumes of Blood arrived and fans were thrilled. Now, Blood Moon Pictures and Mythmaker Games have teamed up for the newest in table-top terror, Volumes of Blood: Body Count, a card game. In the game, players “take on the role of a horror film director and use killers, locations, weapons, and characters from the Volumes of Blood cinematic universe as you face off against your opponents to create a scene of carnage and build the largest body count. Volumes of Blood: Body Count is fun for the whole dysfunctional family.” The anthology centers on a couple who “plans to purchase an old home but would like one last tour before the closing. They’re guided around the estate by a creepy realtor that may have more in store than they bargained for. Searching floor by floor, they begin to discover the remnants of its sordid and terrifying past… A popular 80’s franchise gets a

Continue reading →
Feb 21, 2018
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Fans Can Now Play ‘The Evil Within 2’ In First-Person

Bethesda just announced today that their terrifying game The Evil Within 2 got a free update, you can now play the game in first-person. The game is normally third–person, but in one part of the game, where players must navigate a trap-filled maze while avoiding a stalking enemy, it’s in first-person. Players really liked the added tension the first person perspective gave; some who played the game on PC found a way to glitch it so the whole game could be played that way. The developers were not upset by this but instead embraced it and made the update for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Players who don’t own the game yet are able to try a free demo of the newly updated game and play the first couple of chapters, to add to this awesome gift the saved data from the demo will be transferred over to the full game if the player chooses to get the whole

Continue reading →
Feb 14, 2018
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‘Five Night’s At Freddy’s’ Movie Finds Its Director

After lingering in development for what seems like forever, a director for the Five Nights at Freddy’s adaptation has been found. Blumhouse announced via Twitter that Chris Columbus will be in the director’s chair. Mr. Columbus, are you ready for Freddy? #FiveNightsatFreddys pic.twitter.com/4F7QEnw16x — Blumhouse (@blumhouse) February 12, 2018 Columbus is most well known for having a history of directing family-friendly films like Harry Potter, Mrs, Doubtfire, and Home Alone, but he is not new to the horror genre having penned the script for Gremlins. The upcoming film is based on the Five Nights at Freddy’s video game which challenges players to survive for five nights. Players are put in the role of a security guard in a pizza restaurant who must survive the possessed animatronic characters who roam the restaurant looking for their next kill. First released back in 2014, the game has had five sequels.

Continue reading →
Feb 13, 2018
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9 Zombie Video Game Clichés That Need To Stop

Zombies are fun. Zombie movies are fun to watch. Zombie video games are more fun! There’s nothing like taking your frustrations out on a bunch of virtual undead eating machines and coming out on top. Some games offer you this and then some but over time there are elements in these games that have been done once or twice that start to become overused to the point that they become an annoying cliché that makes the genre repetitive and no longer fun. Since many developers are starting to get into the “immersion” fad. In gaming, culture immersion is when developers want the player(s) to feel like they are literally in the game, generally, this is applied towards VR devices like Oculus Rift but this practice is starting to find its way into non-VR games. For example, the winter sports game Steep the game can only be played online in a public lobby which many gaming fans find annoying (which it

Continue reading →
Feb 11, 2018
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Death Is Permanent In ‘Song Of Horror’

When you die in a video game, usually you restart from a checkpoint or where you last saved, but many gamers like a challenge, now comes the gaming term that either excites or terrifies players, “permadeath”. Permadeath is a gaming slang term for “permanent death” means exactly as it sounds, when you die in a game that’s it, game over, you must now start from scratch. Most games either don’t have this mechanic as it’s more or less a personal challenge made by the player themselves or in some games like Wolfenstein: New Colossus it’s a difficulty that you can unlock, but for upcoming survival horror game Song of Horror by Protocol Games it’s the game’s main feature. To ease your concerns about the permadeath mechanic in Song of Horror, it’s only permanent for one of 16 playable characters, that’s right, you can control 16 different characters! The game’s protagonist, Daniel Noyer, is at the center of the game’s story

Continue reading →
Feb 4, 2018
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New Enemies Await In ‘Metal Gear: Survive’

Fans and gamers will return to the stealthy futuristic world of Metal Gear in the first upcoming game since Hideo Kojima left Konami in 2015. Kojima was the father of the Metal Gear series and the next installment of the game Metal Gear Survive will be the first Metal Gear game he was not involved in. Metal Gear: Survive takes place between the games Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that will take players literally to another world. The story is about a group of soldiers who are sucked into a wormhole and transported into another world that’s full of beings known as the “creatures” resembling zombies. Players can play solo with AI teammates or actually team up with other players to survive this open world game with the objective to recovers parts needed to get you and your teammates home. The game will require internet so players can use the microtransactions

Continue reading →
Feb 4, 2018
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How Will You Survive In ‘Vampyr’?

DONTNOD Entertainment who is known for their popular episodic hit Life is Strange will take players to the streets of London in their new game Vampyr. It’s London during the 1918 flu pandemic and Doctor Jonathan E. Reid struggles with his new affliction no he does not have the flu, he just became a vampire. Players take control of Reid as he tries to keep to his Hippocratic Oath of doing no harm but at the same time, he needs to feed on blood to survive. Players help Reid make decisions which can affect London. Player’s decisions can impact the lives in London by keeping things calm or causing its destruction. Reid can unlock abilities every time he feeds but he can also complete the game by not killing anyone at all, he just won’t gain abilities. The game will have four different endings that can be unlocked depending on the actions players make. Reid has the ability to turn

Continue reading →
Feb 3, 2018
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What Secrets Hide In ‘Remothered: Tormented Fathers’?

2018 seems to be the year for horror video games that want to make you not just experience a game but you feel like your partaking in a horror movie, I Love It! Darriil Arts brings the terror in the soon to be released horror game, Remothered: Tormented Fathers a survival horror game resembling The Evil Within, Clock Tower, and Amnesia, in mechanics and style. You not only have to investigate to uncover the truth but you have to hide from enemies and use button smash techniques to survive your encounters with enemies. Players take on the role of Rosemary Reed, visiting Dr. Felton who’s sick with an unknown illness and is being cared for by a nurse named Gloria. Rosemary’s true reasoning behind coming to Felton’s home will turn her visit into a nightmare as Rosemary begins to investigate the disappearance of Felton’s daughter Celeste. Rosemary Believes the disappearance is part of some massacre that was kept secret and

Continue reading →
Feb 1, 2018
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‘Clue’ Remake In The Works

Fox is letting Ryan Reynolds extend his wings and going solo with producing his first movie with his company Maximum Effort and the movie he’ll be working on, a live-action adaptation of the popular board game Clue. No details of the story had been released but Reynolds will be teaming up with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who he has already worked with before on both Deadpool films. A film version of the game already exists and attempts to remake it has come up in 2011 and 2016 with the projects being abandoned. The original film was made in 1985 and starred Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren. The comedic twist of the game’s storyline where Curry’s character, the butler Wadsworth, takes the colorful characters on a marathon of sleuthing to solve the murder of Mr. Boddy who was murdered by one of the guests he was blackmailing. The film

Continue reading →
Jan 26, 2018
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John Cena In Talks To Star As Duke Nukem

Paramount Pictures is gearing up for a video game to film adaption of Duke Nukem. Last year during the E3 Convention Gearbox Studios CEO Randy Pitchford revealed that the adaption was in the works and that they were looking for a studio. Paramount snagged the film and are now searching for both a writer and a director. The studio was eyeing WWE wrestler turned actor John Cena, who has now entered negotiations to play the title character, Duke Nukem, a cigar-chomping, flat-top having, sunglasses-wearing firearm expert with serious strength. In the games, Duke is on a mission to fight aliens to protect Earth. Duke Nukem, developed by Apogee Software, was first released in 1991 for PC gamers and has spawned 18 games released on multiple platforms. Platinum Dunes, the company owned by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller, will be producing. Bay is behind films like Transformers, Bad Boys, The Rock, and many others. You know that means, we

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Jan 23, 2018