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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.
After teasing fans last month, Frogwares has announced an August 18 release date for The Sinking City 2. Announced during the Future Games Show, the developer also shadow dropped a new demo, along with a new trailer, appropriately titled “Welcome to Arkham.”
As for the demo, players will get to experience the opening hour of the full game and offers an early look at Frogwares’ take on survival horror. It also provides the first opportunity to properly meet the new protagonist, occult adventurer Calvin Rafferty, and begin uncovering the reasons behind his tragic and arduous journey into the flooded and Eldritch monster-infested city of Arkham.
Set in a Lovecraftian vision of 1920s America, in the infamous city of Arkham, a supernatural flood has driven out all but the most deranged residents, leaving decay and eldritch horrors that roam the streets. Players step into the role of Calvin Rafferty, an occult adventurer whose cavalier actions have led to devastating consequences. After a dreaming ritual goes wrong, his girlfriend, Faye, is left trapped in a mysterious sleep. Now Calvin must navigate the drowned streets of a derelict city in a desperate attempt to bring her back. On his quest, he’ll come face to face with a plague of otherworldly creatures, the Slither, who possess and twist the dead into lethal, walking puppets.
The Sinking City 2 is currently in development for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. And while you wait for that demo to download, check out Harrison’s preview.