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‘LET IT DIE’ Headed to PC This Fall!
Grasshopper Manufacture’s LET IT DIE was a sleeper hit for the PlayStation 4. The 2017 free-to-play hack ‘n slasher received so-so reviews when it was released, but that hasn’t stopped it from logging over four million downloads as of April 2018. And now, PC gamers will get to experience it when the game heads to Steam this Fall!
Details such as system specs or a specific release date haven’t been announced yet, unfortunately.
For those unfamiliar with LET IT DIE, the game has you in the far-off year of 2026, where you play as an unnamed person tasked with scaling a tower in South Western Tokyo (which recently became an island) that’s filled with bizarre enemies and traps. You’re guided on your journey by a skateboarding grim reaper named Uncle Death, who instructs you to scrouge up pieces of armor and weaponry to increase your chances of survival in the tower.
Death is not the end for you, however. While if your character dies, you do end up losing all of your equipment and are sent back down the tower, your recently-deceased character and their equipment is saved to the game’s servers. That data means that other players can potentially encounter the ghostly version of your previous character as an enemy, allowing them to have the opportunity to slay you and snag your stuff. You can do the same thing with their former characters, too!
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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.”