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‘Quadrant’ Goes Episodic, Coming in March
We finally have a release window for the indie horror game Quadrant, which is set in the 1970s and follows a member of a bio-hazardous waste removal crew that’s dispatched to investigate a NASA lab that’s been quarantines after an alien creature escaped and promptly murdered everyone inside.
A recent announcement from its developer confirms the game will arrive in three separate chapters, starting with the first that’s slated to arrive on Steam Early Access in mid-March.
“After discussing this as a team, we feel there are several very good, and very important, reasons for this,” the studio explains. “Releasing the game in chapters allows us to focus solely on each chapter, insuring we can put all efforts into making each chapter the very best it can be.”
Early Access games have gradually developed a poor reputation, thanks to a slew of games that have been either bad or broken, as well as a growing number that have gone without updates. The makers of Quadrant don’t want you to worry about that.
“One thing we’d like to make very clear about releasing in Early Access, is that we do not intend on releasing a broken game.”
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The chapters we release will be fully functional and playable, tested rigorously for bugs and glitches before we release. The main reason we are releasing in Early Access is because we’ve come to the conclusion that it is by far the best platform for chapter releases of the game.”
Sounds good. Now for the (sort of) bad news. Each episode will be released roughly 2-3 months apart, and they’re currently exclusive to Steam. Quadrant will come first to PC, followed by Mac. Now word on a console release yet.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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