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Haunted PS1 Hosts EEK3 2020 Showcase Featuring Over 40 Horror Games
So, the people behind the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc from a few months back? Well, they were back at it again over the weekend with EEK3 2020 (obviously a play on E3), assembling a showcase of indie horror games from itch.io that all share that retro PS1 aesthetic we love. Said showcase was made into a video, featuring trailers of 40 recently-released and upcoming games, as well as bumpers hosted by a skeleton and a ghost.
In addition to the showcase video, there’s a virtual showfloor to explore, complete with characters from selected games looking after the stalls, as well as a 3D space where the trailers burst out of arcade cabinets. You can check that out over on the EEK3 2020 itch.io page.
Bloober Team has released a new developer diary for the upcoming Cronos: Lazarus DLC for Cronos: The New Dawn. Titled “Becoming the Warden,” the video features members of the dev team chatting it up about (obviously) The Warden, who unlike The Traveler in the main game, will focus more on faster, more aggressive action.
“We came back on the setting of Cronos because we wanted players to experience this super strong character,” says Game Design Director Marc Albinet. “The second reason was that we also wanted to provide a different flavor, a different taste of the original game.”
The DLC also puts greater emphasis on the more “emotional” human side of the story, where players learn of the cost of going up against The Collective. Cronos: Lazarus sees The Warden isolated in the Terminal and severed from the Collective, where he devotes every waking moment to awakening a lost Essence he refuses to let fade. However, his sanctuary, has been compromised. A new kind of hunter has been deployed with one directive: to find and eliminate him.
Scarred and broken by a lifetime of survival in the wasteland, The Warden is not at full strength, but even in his damaged state, he retains the ability to move fast, strike hard and survive against mounting pressure. In addition to being able to deploy a decoy to distract foes and being able to turn invisible to strike against distracted foes, The Warden can also teleport, which fits with the more aggressive playstyle of the DLC. He also has a souped-up version of the Dagger PS-3713 in the Gladius.
Cronos: Lazarus is slated to launch later this fall for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch 2.