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New “Cadaver Keep” Update Adds More Goodies to Fantasy Horror Title ‘Dread Delusion’ [Trailer]
Fans of DreadXP’s Dread Delusion can now enjoy some additional content, thanks to the recent “Cadaver Keep” content update. Alongside the usual bug fixes, the update adds “a ton of new challenges” to the Endless Region, as well as a new main story quest and further improvements to the game’s combat.
In this update, the hunt for Vela Callose continues, with Vela’s former comrade – known as the Duchess – arriving in the Endless Region. The Duchess resides in a cluster of islands haunted by skeletons and spectral eyeballs. Once you do find her, she tasks you with an even more perilous endeavour – to rescue her daughter from the terrifying Cadaver Keep.
The eponymous Cadaver Keep is a brand new dungeon for Dread Delusion that’s teeming with enemies and treasure. As with the previous Rustburg update, there will be multiple paths to your goal – allowing you to slip past some of the more daunting combat encounters, if you have the skill.
The Endless Region also gets a new dungeon in the Endless Mines, a vast complex of crystalline caves in which “a malign psychic presence has taken root.” It’s an entirely optional dungeon, but yields a huge amount of crafting materials, and also features an engrossing questline with multiple endings.
Enemies also get a bit of an upgrade with the ability to now consume potions to restore health and use shields to deflect attacks, adding an extra layer of strategy to combat. Lastly, developer Lovely Hellplace has improved the way the game loads data between regions that adds a small bit to the load times, but improves Dread Delusion‘s overall performance.
Dread Delusion is currently in Early Access on 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.