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Power Up Studios, creators of Night Of A Million Billion Zombies, is also working on Blood: Butchers Block.
Blood: Butchers Block is a 3D first person action horror game for the PC that takes place immediately after the movie Blood: A Butchers Tale. The movie surprisingly has a line up of actors who have been in some big name movies, and also voices for the game. A shipment of ground meat contaminated with vampire blood is accidentally shipped to a community picnic, in the idyllic gated suburb of Red River. The meat transforms people into ghoulish vampires, thirsty for human blood. People who are attacked and killed by vampires become vampires themselves, and the vampire plague spreads quickly through the community.
As an ordinary citizen attending the BBQ, the player is challenged to fight for their lives against legions of blood-thirsty ghouls and superhuman vampires, protect family members, save neighbors, and ultimately escape the doomed community. Play as Dad, Mom, or daughter Sally, and use whatever you can find as a weapon, from firearms to gardening tools, to defend yourself and your family. Get help from your neighbors, such as a vigilante posse of shotgun-toting PTA members patrolling the streets in a 4×4, and Lydia, the neighborhood’s tough and sarcastic Goth teenager.
BLOOD: Butcher’s Block features voice acting by Alex Zahara (Stargate SG-1, Masters of Horror) as Roger Goreman, Anne Openshaw (Stargate: Atlantis, Across the River to Motor City) as Donna Goreman, Dan Payne (Stargate SG-1, Alice, I Think) as Viktor Revik, and Emily Perkins (Ginger Snaps) as Lydia Lewis.
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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