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This New Gameplay Teaser For Sci-Fi Survival Horror ‘Negative Atmosphere’ Shows the Disturbing Stilt-Walker
Earlier this year, a small development team from England, Sunscorched Studios, showed off a slice of its sci-fi survival horror game Negative Atmosphere. It was in the very early stages, but it channeled the atmosphere of the now living-impaired Dead Space franchise (though still trying to do its own thing), and that ensured it got people’s attention.
Now, we get to see how it’s been progressing with a new gameplay teaser that shows an intimidating foe called the ‘Stilt-Walker’. The short teaser shows understandably foul-mouthed protagonist Dr. Samuel Edwards notice something emerging from a wall, and the ship’s A.I. advises him rather strongly to run from the horror hiding in the darkness. Safe to say, Edwards doesn’t heed that advice and we’re treated to his violent death via eye-poking.
Negative Atmosphere is inspired by the likes of Dead Space and more thematically, System Shock. It’s set during a space-faring Cold War between two human factions, and that seems to be the cause of a frightening pandemic that has erupted on the ship known as the Rusanov. Said pandemic has created some disturbing monsters, including the Stilt-Walker seen in the trailer.
It may be a survival horror, but the developer claims survival itself may only be temporary, as the tagline for this latest look at the game is NO HELP IS COMING. NO RESCUE IS EN ROUTE. ESCAPE IS NOT AN OPTION.
There’s no set release date for the PC version of the game, but the project only began a year ago, and the studio is only a handful of rather young people, so it may you’ll have to wait for that eye-poking a while longer. In the meantime, here’s a few screenshots.
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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