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Sci-Fi Horror Game ‘INTERPOINT’ Receiving Overhaul Next Month
Released in Early Access back in April 2019, Three Dots’ sci-fi adventure horror game INTERPOINT will be receiving a massive overhaul in January. According to the latest entry on the game’s Steam page, the team has grown unsatisfied with the alpha, and has spent the past year and a half reworking the game.
According to the announcement, after becoming dissatisfied with the alpha build of the game, Three Dots “concluded that everything needs to be changed.” Their initial approach didn’t produce the expected results, resulting in the team having to “rethink the project and our approach to its development altogether.”
“Over the past 1.5 years, our three-person team has reimagined every part of the game and re-created it. We redesigned all levels, many aspects of the gameplay, puzzles, changed the visual style and effects, and most of the plot to make INTERPOINT better and more interesting.”
The resultant “re-imagining” is the major update, which encompasses Episodes 1-3 of INTERPOINT. You can get a peek at the overhaul in the teaser below.
INTERPOINT puts you in the role of Harry German, a scientist working for Delta Labs. In the early 2020s, Delta Labs created the Quantum Entanglement Device, which allows portals to be opened to countless parallel universes. However, all of the other worlds discovered were either an almost exact copy of ours, or completely surreal worlds with unknown creatures. As these things go, something goes wrong, and Harry finds himself far from home.
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‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope’ Launches August 20 [Trailer]
GSC Game World will be bringing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl fans the first expansion next month when “Cost of Hope” launches on August 20. The release will coincide with a new 2.0 update for the game. The devs will release more info on the expansion and the update in the coming weeks.
In Cost of Hope, players once again step into the role of Skif — the protagonist of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — as a mysterious PDA signal draws him into events unfolding alongside the main game’s story. Players will explore uncharted locations, encounter unexpected allies and enemies, discover powerful weapons, and experience a new story. With dozens of hours of content, your choices will shape the future of the Zone in this major new chapter of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. saga.
Launching in line with Cost of Hope will be a “massive” Update 2.0 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Available as a free update to all owners of the game, the update will upgrade the game to a new version of Unreal Engine 5, as well as bring a variety of new content and improvements.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl will launch for PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store and GOG.com, the Xbox Series and PlayStation 5.