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Blast Your Way Through Hell in Upcoming Shmup ‘Void Gore’
Normally, you wouldn’t think of a shoot-’em-up aka a shmup to be horror-centric. The closest you’d get would be Konami’s classic Lifeforce aka Salamander. That’s not stopping eastasiasoft and Panda Indie Studios, as Void Gore has you blasting your way out of Hell tomorrow.
Set for release on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch via the eShop, Void Gore casts you as an ace pilot descending through the levels of hell in order to get rich in the process. Players will earn coins as they blow away supernatural horrors in the classic vertical scrolling shmup style, then spend them on upgrades to keep yourself alive.
Void Gore not only features “a classically gritty pixel art style with parallax scrolling”, but each level is randomized. You’ll also be chaining kills together to increase your score multiplier as you face off against other players on the leaderboard.
If you do fall while making your way through Hell, you’ll have to start back at the first stage. But at least you get to keep the cash you’ve earned to get your upgrades back to where they were.
Bits and pieces of the cancelled DOOM 4 project have made their way online over the years in various forms, and it’s no exception with the latest batch of media. Per Video Games Chronicle, X users @Runhob and @WadOverdose, who previously had posted unreleased material from the cancelled shooter, over the weekend released more images, including a piece of concept art that until now had only been available in cropped images on Instagram.
@Runhob over the weekend posted the aforementioned concept art by concept artist Christian Piccolo, depicting an epic vision of Hell. The original piece had been posted to Piccolo’s Instagram back in 2017, but was obviously only a square piece of the original art. That in turn was followed by more images from an early build of DOOM 4, showing off a couple of weapons and the urban environment that had resulted in many referring to the game as “Call of Doom”, due to the derided Call of Duty inspirations.
Not to be outdone, @WadOverdose posted images of very early models of enemies from the game, including one referred to as a Combiner, which as @WasOverdose noted, would have used a similar merging mechanic that was seen in Cronos: The New Dawn.
All of this comes after last week’s “reset” by Xbox, which has resulted in layoffs and pivots by all of its studios, including DOOM developers id Software letting go 100 of its staff members.
Meanwhile, id has just released the first DOOM: The Dark Ages expansion in Revelations, which is available now on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and the PC via Steam.