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‘Resident Evil VII’, ‘Friday The 13th: The Game’ Snag Honours at the 2017 Golden Joystick Awards!

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It’s that time of the year when publications do their yearly awards for the games that rise above the rest. The 2017 Golden Joystick Awards took place on Friday, and despite the event being dominated by Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and it snagging four awards, horror gaming fans had moments to call their own.

For starters, Capcom’s Resident Evil VII snagged “Best VR Game”, despite losing out on “Best Gaming Performance” for Jack Brand’s portrayal of Jack Baker to Ashly Burch in Horizon Zero Dawn, and the coveted “Ultimate Game Of The Year” to Breath Of The Wild. It’s also impressive when you realize that the VR version was available only to PS4 users, and not PC.

Meanwhile, in what was a surprise to many, was Gun Media’s Friday The 13th: The Game snagging the “Best Indie Game” award. The game (which we’ve talked about and reviewed many times on this site) was also up for “Best Multiplayer Game”, but lost out to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. This is all in spite of the hiccups Gun Media had with the game at launch, but turned things around quickly to remedy many of the initial complaints by fans. Obviously, the care that Gun Media took to get things on track was paid back by the fans. Congrats!

To see the full list of winners (as well as the nominees), you can check out The Daily Telegraph’s coverage here.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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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.”

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