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‘Amnesia: The Dark Descent’ To Receive New “Hard Mode” Later This Month

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Chalk it up to one of those “didn’t see that coming” moments, but according to a blog post by Fractional Games, in conjunction with The Amnesia Collection hitting Xbox One later this month on September 28th, the first game will now sport a new mode.

If you didn’t think Amnesia was hard before, be prepared with its new Hard Mode. Like Soma‘s Easy Mode, this is the exact opposite. Autosaves are gone, and saving now costs you four tinderboxes. On top of that, tinderboxes and oil are much harder to come by. Monsters are now faster, do more damage and will spot you much easier than before. Oh, and your sanity dropping to zero results in death. You can pick between normal mode and Hard Mode when starting a new game, and no, you won’t be able to change halfway through.

For your efforts (and if you care about such things), you’ll be awarded a new trophy called ‘Masochist’. Do note that Hard Mode affects the ‘Illuminatus’ achievement, which you can’t get during playing in Hard Mode as it reduces the amount of tinderboxes throughout the level.

Hard Mode will launch on Xbox and PC versions simultaneously on the 28th. With the PS4 version having the new mode “out by the end of 2018”.

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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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