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Remedy Entertainment Outlines DLC Roadmap For ‘Control’
After the discovery of potential future DLC for Remedy’s Control, the devs have today officially revealed the roadmap for the action-thriller.
For starters, a free Photo Mode is coming to the game later this Fall. More information on this is expected later.
In December, a new game mode (also free) will be available in the form of Expeditions. “This will be a challenging new end-game mode in which Jesse must help Security Chief Arish explore the mysterious Formation and its strange surroundings.”
Control‘s first paid expansion will hit early next year. “The Foundation” delves into the history of the Oldest House, where Jesse must explore what lies beneath the Bureau as she returns order to the Foundation and the Oldest House itself.
Following that, in mid 2020, the second paid expansion hits. Called “Awe”, the expansion “will take Jesse into a new part of the Oldest House, the Investigations Sector, where the Bureau closely examines Altered World Events.” And yes, if you zoom in on the text for “Awe” in the image below, get ready for a surprise.
Lastly, for those running into performance issues, Remedy will be releasing a new update soon that promises to apply “bug and crash fixes to missions, combat and overall game play”. As well, stability will be improved, and framerates will be improved “through optimizations made to multiple systems and content.”
Control is currently available for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.
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