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October Games Teams With Full Moon Features to Create Game Based on ‘Puppet Master’! [Trailer]
If you’re in the mood for more asymmetrical multiplayer mayhem in the vein of Dead By Daylight, October Games’ Horror Legends might be your thing. Released last week, the devs have a DLC treat for those who’ve already taken the plunge: they’ve partnered with Full Moon Features to not only do a crossover with Ted Nicolaou’s 1991 film Subspecies, but the devs are creating a game based on Puppet Master!
Horror Legends pits legendary monsters against unsuspecting Cast members as the latter tries to achieve objectives in order to escape the level. The Legends can employ minions to wear down the Cast, making them easier to kill. However, the Cast have their own unique abilities and loadouts.
The first DLC for Horror Legends has October Games bringing the bloodthirsty vampire Radu Vladislas from Subspecies into the game, complete with Anders Hove reprising the role by lending his voice to Radu. In addition, the Subspecies are here as Radu’s minions, and increase in numbers as Radu feasts on players. The DLC also contains 10 Cast skins (aka the game’s Survivors), featuring Full Moon branded T-shirts.
But the bigger news is that October Games is working on Puppet Master: The Game, featuring the likes of Blade, Pinhead, Tunneler, Jester, Six-Shooter and more. There’s not much info at the moment on the game, although it’ll be coming to Steam in late 2022.
Horror Legends is available now on PC via Steam.
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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.