Video Games
[Video] There’s a Fun ‘Tremors’ Easter Egg in ‘Far Cry 5’!
If you’ve spent several hours this past week (as I have) prowling around Hope County, Montana in Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5, you’ve possibly come across one of two Easter egg tributes to Stephen King’s IT that can be found in the game. One of them is located inside of O’Hara’s Haunted House, an operational attraction you can actually walk through!
But IT isn’t the only horror film that gets a fun tribute in Far Cry 5.
YouTube’s GoluptiousToast Gaming just brought a Tremors Easter egg to our attention, which he found in a house down the road from the Spread Eagle bar. Inside the house, there’s a phone you can interact with; pressing the square button while near the phone plays a message from a man named Burt, who’s heading South to a “small desert valley.”
“It ain’t perfection, but sometimes bein’ prepared is about cuttin’ your losses,” he says.
The man leaving the message is clearly supposed to be Tremors character Burt Gummer, a survivalist who took up residence in the small desert valley known as… Perfection!
Video Games
Inspired by 80s Slashers, Short Horror Experience ‘Dead Stop – No Vacancy’ Launches August 13 [Trailer]
Fresh from their work on last year’s Beneath, developer Camel 101 has announced that their next title, a short, standalone first-person horror experience in Dead Stop – No Vacancy, will launch on Steam on August 13. Accompanying the announcement is the release date trailer, which thanks to the narration, is appropriately hammy.
Players in No Vacancy step into the shoes of Nancy, a hard-edged investigative reporter whose journey to the town of Crestfall takes an unexpected turn. Stranded without directions or a GPS signal, she arrives at the remote Paradise Motel just as daylight begins to disappear. What initially appears to be an inconvenient stop soon becomes an investigation into the motel’s dark history, and whatever may be hiding beneath it.
No Vacancy is the first entry in Dead Stop, a new anthology of short, standalone horror games inspired by classic horror stories and unsettling places. In this case, the game takes inspiration from 80s slasher films.
Rather than relying on cutscenes to tell its story, No Vacancy‘s has the player discover the story through the various objects you examine in the game. As such, you’ll also be dealing with various environmental puzzles built around the motel’s dark history. Completing the vibe is the game’s throwback graphics, which don’t quite have the typical PS1-era aesthetic, but it’s enough to give you that old-school feel.
Ahead of the game’s launch, you can also check out the demo via the Steam page.