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THQ Nordic Acquires Rights to ‘Alone In The Dark’ Series
The landscape for survival horror franchises is a rather bleak one. Silent Hill is in an ironic limbo, Dead Space is trapped in a vacuum, and Clock Tower has stopped ticking. Resident Evil, despite a wobble, is very much still in…residence (sorry). Until recently the Alone In The Dark franchise was locked in a dank room in Atari’s basement while legal wrangling went on for custody.
Well, doomed IP saviors THQ Nordic are at it again. Having picked up Kingdoms of Amular and Timesplitters recently, the publisher has now gained the rights to one of survival horror’s most important franchise in Alone In The Dark from Atari. It also picked up Act of War, a strategy game.
While Resident Evil gets credit for pushing survival horror into the mainstream, it’s Alone In The Dark that paved the way for Capcom’s juggernaut. Unfortunately, despite multiple attempts to revive the franchise, the godawful Alone In The Dark Illumination looked to be the sad, sour end.
It’ll be interesting to see what comes from this acquisition. A reawakening of a survival horror giant would see the genre heavyweights in rude health. Now THQ Nordic, see if EA are interested in letting go of that Dead Space IP, eh?
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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August
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.”