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Problems With Alone In The Dark? 360 Users, REJOICE!
A lot of people, myself included, have had some issues while playing Alone In The Dark. A friend of mine, played the 1st level, and quit. I’ve been fighting my way through the game since it’s release, and I am near completion. Problems consist of, hard to control character, mainly in 3rd person view, hard to accurately aim and shoot, and kill enemies. The list goes on, but here is exactly what they are fixing for the Playstation 3 version that is coming out September 15th. The 360 players will get a patch around the same time as the PS3 versions release.
“[A] controllable camera (which forces a button toggle for right-analog-stick object attacks), a quicker-moving main character, the ability to run without holding down a button, more damage from object attacks, fewer restrictions on how you can combine objects, a pause function when you enter your coat/inventory, easier vehicle handling, shortcuts on the controller for the flashlight (and to pull up your gun), and the removal of batteries from your inventory (flashlights now work for as long as you want them to).”
Well I do like the game, and I’ll eventually post a review on it once I beat it, but this will make me like it a bunch more, and hopefully you jaded players out there will too!
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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August
We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.
A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.
Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.
Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”
“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.
“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”