Video Games
Fan Recreates Opening From ‘Silent Hill’ From a First-Person Perspective
Once again, leave it up to the fans to come up with more Silent Hill goodies for the rest of us to enjoy. While this isn’t the entire game (more of a concept demo), game designer and Silent Hill fan Zero Trace Operative has spent “5 grueling months” recreating the opening of the first game in first-person.
Despite only being five minutes long, it’s still cool to see something like this come out that doesn’t involve a Pachinko machine. According to Zero’s blog about the project, the assets used in the demo are traced from model extractions rather than being ripped directly from the actual game. This resulted in “a 99% faithful rebuild of the world from scratch” that still holds its charm today.
Zero has no plans to continue further work on this, and considers it complete. Still, you know someone out there is itching to get going on a Silent Hill remake of their own.
Perhaps this could be a catalyst?
Video Games
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.