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‘Silent Hill 2’ Earns Game of the Year From The Horror Game Awards 2024
After the disappointment for horror fans at The Game Awards this year, horror fans got their redemption in short order with The Horror Game Awards 2024. And unlike TGAs, Silent Hill 2 wasn’t shut out. On the contrary, Bloober Team’s remake of Konami’s classic took home Game of the Year honours, along with three other awards.
In addition to Game of the Year, Silent Hill 2 earned awards for Best Performance (Luke Roberts as James Sunderland), Best Soundtrack (Akira Yamaoka) and Best Survival Horror Game. And while Silent Hill 2-related, but technically not, Masahiro Ito won the Lifetime Achievement Award for his career’s work.
Meanwhile, Wrong Organ’s Mouthwashing and The Chinese Room’s Still Wakes The Deep were the other multiple award winners of the show. Mouthwashing took home Best Narrative and the Players’ Choice Award, while Still Wakes The Deep won awards for Technical Achievement and Best Indie Horror.
Capcom earned itself the award for Best Developer, as well as the Best VR award for Resident Evil 4 VR.
In addition to the awards, The Horror Game Awards also had several world premiere trailers of upcoming titles, as well as reveals of new games. You can check out the replay of the stream below to see what’s in store for fans in the coming year.
Meanwhile, here are the winners in each category for The Horror Game Awards 2024:
- Best Performance – Luke Roberts as James Sunderland
- Most Accessible – Slay The Princess – The Pristine Cut
- Lifetime Achievement Award – Masahiro Ito
- Best Soundtrack – Silent Hill 2 (Akira Yamaoka)
- Best Narrative – Mouthwashing
- Players’ Choice Award – Mouthwashing
- Best Survival Horror – Silent Hill 2
- Best Indie Developer – Chilla’s Art
- Best Multiplayer – Lethal Company
- Best Developer – Capcom
- Best VR – Resident Evil 4 VR
- Content Creator of the Year – Markiplier
- Best Indie Game – Still Wakes The Deep
- Technical Achievement Award – Still Wakes The Deep
- Most Anticipated Horror Game – Alien: Isolation sequel
- Game of the Year – Silent Hill 2
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Demo Now Available for First-Person Action Title ‘Vampire Hunter: Nightrise’, Coming July 14 [Trailer]
Over the Moon Games has announced that their upcoming first-person title Vampire Hunter: Nightrise will launch on Steam on July 14. You won’t have to wait until Steam Next Fest next week to get a chance to get your vampire slaying fix in, as the game’s demo is available now.
Touted as “Castlevania meets Tunic,” Nightrise puts players into a vampire’s castle with a single goal: reach him before nightfall. Of course, it’s easier said than done, since you’ll be needing to deal with the castle itself. Rotating fireplaces, moving bookshelves, watching portraits, and hidden passages are open from the start, but they only give way once the player understands how the place works. No keys, only knowledge.
Meanwhile, despite not having a whip, you’re equipped with something just as cool in a stake launcher that pins enemies to walls. You can also fire stakes through flame to ignite them, and even turn the castle’s own furniture into ammunition.
Underneath it all, the player’s faith is a major gameplay mechanic, functioning as as a literal resource that the castle constantly tempts them to trade away for power, quietly shaping how the story ends. As your conviction weakens, the castle’s influence grows stronger. You’ll have to manage faith as carefully as ammunition.
“In Nightrise, almost everything is open to you from the very beginning, if you know how to reach it,” explains Over the Moon Games’ John Warner. “There is something deeply rewarding about learning to overcome an obstacle instead of just finding a key. It creates a real sense of power and wonder. We took huge inspiration from Tunic in that respect, and from Outer Wilds.”