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‘Unreal’ Turns 20! Grab it for Free Today!

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A landmark shooter just turned 20. No, it’s not a Doom clone. It’s Epic’s Unreal! Released on May 22nd, 1998, Unreal brought a cutting-edge 3D graphic engine to the masses (by comparison, id Software’s Quake was only a mere eight months old when Unreal was released). Sure, it wasn’t as fun as Quake, but man, the game looked miles above what id had done.

In fact, without Unreal, we wouldn’t have many of our modern horror games (at least not looking the way they do), as the Unreal Engine has been the root of many of our games, including Clive Barker’s Undying, Alice: Madness Returns, Deadlight, the Outlast series, Friday the 13th: The Game and the list goes on.

To celebrate, Epic has the game available for free for the next 24 hours on both Steam and GOG.com. In addition, GOG.com also has the rest of the series on sale for a very reasonable 80% discount. That one is available until May 29th. Really, you have no excuse to not get in on video game history with this one.

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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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