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‘The Outlast Trials’ Receives “Winter Kills” Festive Event [Trailer]

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Hot on the heels of news of The Outlast Trials heading to consoles in the new year, Red Barrels have introduced the time-limited “Winter Kills” event for fans, on now through to January 9. The event features new cosmetics and challenges, quality of life improvements such as full controller support, and more in-game lore to discover.

For starters, “Winter Kills” features the new Cold Snap and Find the Gifts variators for missions. The former sees the environment sporadically filled with piercing cold air, where you must hide to survive, whereas the latter tasks you with finding all the gifts in the Trial to earn extra rewards.

That’s alongside the new festive-themed character and sleep room enhancement cosmetics, which you can earn by completing exclusive trials and challenges. That’s alongside the new deluxe decoration packages for your personal cell. And speaking of challenges, players can head back to the Courthouse for two new tests in Escape the Courthouse and Destroy the Evidence.

As for you lore junkies, there are new evidence documents for you to discover that shed more light on the Murkoff Institute.

The update also includes the aforementioned controller support enhancements, as well as the usual bug fixes and balancing.

The fun doesn’t end after January 9, however. Red Barrels has also teased an update roadmap, which features upcoming weekly events in The Outlast Trials.

Currently available in Early Access on Steam, The Outlast Trials will be exiting Early Access and arriving on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on March 5, 2024.

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‘DreadOut Remastered Collection’ Announced for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, Coming Later This Year [Trailer]

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While it’s not a sequel to DreadOut 2 that some fans were hoping for, developer Digital Happiness and Singapore-based publisher Soft Source Publishing have announced the next best thing with DreadOut Remastered Collection, which is set to head to the PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Switch later this year. This remaster will include the original DreadOut, and the standalone game DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark. Details on just what the remaster includes have yet to be revealed.

“Having worked on bringing DreadOut 2 to consoles, the team at Soft Source Publishing were enthralled by the idea when Pak Rachmad CEO of Digital Happiness threw out the idea of bringing back DreadOut and DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark to consoles,” says Soft Source Publishing director Sameer Pandit in a press release (thanks, Gematsu!). “It’s an immediate thought that we want to be a part of this new project. DreadOut is an iconic IP in Asia and has been spreading its wings in the rest of the world with the release of DreadOut 2 on consoles.”

For those who don’t know, DreadOut (which you can find on Steam) is a third-person supernatural horror game that was released back in 2014 where you play as Linda, a high school student. When the group of high school students Linda was a part of became lost while on a field trip, they stumble across an abandoned town. However, the town holds a dark secret that has left Linda fighting to get out of the town. Using a similar mechanic to Fatal Frame, Linda is equipped with a smart-phone and an SLR camera, which she will use to battle against the horrors in the town and solve puzzles.

Meanwhile, DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a “missing chapter” from the original game, where you will help Linda face off against more ghosts and challenges in The Mirror Realm: a portal of worlds that connects it to eight haunted dominions where horrific ghosts are ready to greet her in the most terrifying way possible.

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