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[Trailer] Dark Fantasy Wild West Shooter ‘Weird West’ Comes to PC, Consoles This Fall
Developer WolfEye Studios has announced that their upcoming dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West in Weird West will finally be released this fall for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The developer has also released a new trailer to coincide with the announcement.
Weird West mixes lawmen and gunslingers with werewolves, demons, and other fantastical creatures in a mashup of an overhead shooter with RPG elements. You’ll take control of one of five characters, each with their own story and motivations. Each character will journey through various locations in the game, eventually having their stories cross paths with each other.
Being a blend of an RPG and overhead shooter, you’ll utilize a combination of top-down shooting and each character’s unique abilities, while balancing out their strengths and weaknesses.
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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.