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Get Your Splatterpunk Fix With ‘Hotline Miami’-like ‘GARAGE: Bad Trip’

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Dennaton Games’s Hotline Miami and its sequel are some of the best games released this decade. They’re also some of the best over-the-top gorefests. Now, what if you took Hotline Miami’s top-down, kneejerk action concept, kept the gore, and instead of mobsters, you were blowing away zombies/monsters? Well, with the recently-released GARAGE: Bad Trip by Zombie Dynamics, you can.

Inspired by VHS-era B-movies, GARAGE: Bad Trip was originally released on the Nintendo Switch back in May, but has just made its way onto Steam. You play as a former drug dealer named Butch, who wakes up in the trunk of a car inside an underground parking garage. Turns out that a mad doctor has been toying with the dead, which as a result are now roaming around. It’s up to you to clean things up and set things right.

That of course, involves using multiple weapons at your disposal.

The game has that same frantic twitch gameplay from Hotline Miami, and yes, the zombies are a quick bunch. Zombies aren’t the only ones to worry about, as you’ve got things like rats, mutants and punks that will be just as unmerciful. A game that’s truly for Splatterpunk enthusiasts. You can check it out on its Steam page above, or head to the official site.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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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.”

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