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VR Horror ‘The Persistence’ Gains New Modes in Free Update Later This Week
Fans of Firesprite Games’ The Persistence will be getting a free update loaded with features later this week. In an update posted to PlayStation Blog, The Persistence‘s game director, Stuart Tilley, has revealed that in addition to a host of accessibility features, the game will feature four brand-new game modes.
Currently, The Persistence only has the main Campaign and a Survival Mode where you play through Campaign again using only 10 clones. The new modes in the update include:
- Glass Cannon – You need to make it through 24 rooms with increasing difficulty to get to an escape pod.
- Campaign+ – Your typical keep all your Gear and Upgrades from your previous Campaign playthrough, but are now faced with an ultra hardcore difficulty mode.
- First Blood – A stealth-based challenge mode where you need to make your way through another huge procedurally generated deck to the escape pod, armed only with a knife.
- Permadeath – If you die once during the campaign, that’s all she wrote.
Also available is Assist Mode. Finding the game too difficult? You can fine-tune aspects of the game’s difficulty to help you get through parts of the game that are proving too challenging, such as enabling infinite ammo, auto shield, reduce damage and more.
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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.”