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‘DreadOut 2’ Eyes a Console Release Next Month for Xbox and PlayStation [Trailer]
Previously released on PC earlier this year, Digital Happiness’ DreadOut 2 will be seeing a console release next month. The Indonesian Survival Horror title will hit the Xbox One and Xbox Series on July 14th, while the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions will arrive on July 20th.
Drawing inspiration from Indonesian folklore and urban legend, DreadOut 2 is a third-person horror adventure that has you play as Linda Meillinda, a high school student with the supernatural power to sense and see ghosts. Aided by her smartphone, Linda must hunt the nightmarish spirits and dark forces that threaten her hometown.
DreadOut 2 features a new combat-oriented mechanic, which involves Linda being able to use any available melee weapons. You’ll also be interacting with various NPCs (both human and ghost), with several side quests, hidden stages, and mini-bosses specifically based on Asian/Indonesian urban legends. And for those who love collecting, you’ll also be putting together a collection of ghost and urban legends lore in Linda’s Ghostpedia on her phone.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t played DreadOut 2 yet, you can pick it up on Steam with a cool 50% discount during the Steam Summer Sale. Or, if you’d like, you can pick up the original DreadOut on Steam for a 75% discount.
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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.