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Publisher SNEG Brings Back Classic SSI PC Games ‘Veil of Darkness’, ‘Dark Legions’ [Trailer]

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Old-school PC gamers will recall Strategic Simulations Inc. (or SSI, if you’re cool) from the 80s and 90s. Primarily known for their strategy wargames, the company also dabbled in other genres, including some genre fare. Lucky for you, publisher SNEG will be bringing some of SSI’s titles to Steam and GOG.com later this month, including the action-adventure horror game Veil of Darkness and the dark fantasy strategy game Dark Legions.

“As another step in preservation of games’ history, we are happy to be working on bringing back more classics published by Strategic Simulations Inc. years ago, says Oleg Klapovskiy, Director at SNEG. “In the early 90s SSI was releasing one of the best strategies and RPG games of that time. Quite a few of them opened the world of video games to us and we are paying them back now. The meticulously designed mechanics of these games stand up to the test of time and the gameplay has a lot to offer to modern players – both those who remember the originals and those who will experience it for the first time.”

Released in March 1993, Veil of Darkness centres on the player surviving a cargo plane crash, where they eventually find themselves in a remote village in a Romanian valley. It turns out that you’ve been prophesied as the “chosen one” to destroy Kairn, a vampire lord who long ago murdered his father and brothers so he could inherit control of the valley. Kairn has used his powers to cut off the village from the outside world, and wields an army of flesh-devouring ghouls and werewolves. It’s up to you to stop him, or die trying. You can wishlist Veil of Darkness here.

Meanwhile, the 1994 DOS game Dark Legions (which you can wishlist here) puts players in control of an army against the computer or another human. The balance of power in the dark realm of Tahr Carog has been broken. One of the two twin power orbs is lost, and the realm is in chaos. As the holder of one of the orbs, you must combat your opponent – the holder of the second power orb – until one of you loses his orb, and the other prevails. You’ll create an army of up to 50 beings from 16 different characters, each with unique powers and abilities.

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Survios Announces VR Title ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’, Coming This Year [Trailer]

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Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.

Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”

Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.

And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.

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