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Crytek Teasing The Return of ‘Crysis’?
If you’re like many a PC gamer who cried when your rig couldn’t run Crysis, you might have to do it again. The official Twitter account for the series, which hasn’t been active since 2016, has updated with a rather cryptic tweet, indicating a possible new entry (or something else) in the dormant series.
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— Crysis (@Crysis) April 13, 2020
For those in need of a refresher, the last Crysis game came in 2013 with Crysis 3, which despite showing off the sweet visuals that the series had become known for, failed to land a proper audience. If you’d like to learn more about the series, you can definitely check out GVMER’s documentary on the series.
Crytek’s most recent project has been the PvPvM shooter, Hunt: Showdown, which has received positive reviews and continues to receive new updates.
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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.