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‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’ Adding New ‘Waterfront Pier’ Map This Week
The team behind Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game has announced a brand new map this week, with the “Waterfront Pier” map being added to the game on August 22.
You can preview the new map with the announce trailer below.
The “Waterfront Pier” map looks to be an extension of the game’s existing “Amusement Park” map, featuring a massive roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, Jojo Ice Cream stand and more.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game is a 3v7 asymmetrical multiplayer horror game based on the cult horror classic film. When murderous alien Klowns come to feed on the quiet town of Crescent Cove, the locals must work together to fight back and survive the invasion.
Players can team up as either Klowns or humans, choosing from a variety of character classes, to explore an expansive, ever-changing map with creepy surprises waiting around every corner.
- Take on the role of the iconic Killer Klowns – cooperate in a team of three players, utilize unworldly abilities, hunt humans with zany weapons, and plan your alien invasion to harvest the population of Crescent Cove successfully.
- Fight back as a team of seven brave citizens of Crescent Cove – explore the city for valuable loot and weapons, avoid getting captured by Klowns, and try to survive the alien invasion.
Developed by Teravision Games and Illfonic, this playfully panic-inducing action experience faithfully recreates the atmosphere of the iconic movie and aims to stir up the asymmetrical multiplayer horror genre in multiple ways. The game is being developed as a live-service title, with multiple content updates planned for post-launch.
It a-piers our invasion has found its next coordinates – Waterfront Pier.
The Killer Klown chaos continues! pic.twitter.com/pB72gGsqG6
— Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game (@klownsthegame) August 19, 2024
Capcom was to the point during Summer Game Fest and the reveal of the long-rumoured Resident Evil Veronica remake. But the trailer didn’t exactly reveal details about the remake. Luckily, IGN was able to pick the brain of the remake’s producer, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, for a bit more info.
In the Q&A session with the producer, despite stating that he wasn’t going to get into too many details, Hirabayashi confirmed that Veronica will be a third-person game, and not the first-person perspective that we saw during the trailer. Furthermore, the team behind this remake is the same team that handled the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4 remakes.
“So if you looked at the past remakes that this team has created, you can probably sense a certain mindset that we have when we make a game, and that mindset includes preserving those iconic and key aspects of the title,” said Hirabayashi. “So again, if you look at our work, you can probably get kind of a good sense of what kind of approach we’re taking here, and maybe you can imagine what that might look like for this remake.”
As for how “evolved” Claire will be in the remake (as opposed to the original game) after her experiences in the RE2 remake, Hirabayashi says that the team is taking a realistic approach. “Veronica takes place about three months after the events of Resident Evil 2 [when Claire is a university student]. So let’s just think about how that progression or how much change happened in about three months. So again, three months is not a lot of time. Of course, she has had training from her brother, and of course, she survived the incident in Raccoon City, so she’s not going to be the exact same character. But the portrayal of her and her style is going to be in alignment with that timeline and that history that we’re looking at for Veronica.”
Oh, and as for the title change from Code: Veronica? In a separate Q&A with Eurogamer, Hirabayashi stated that the team wanted a name more in line with other games in the series.
“[If you] think about the recent entries that we’ve had in the Resident Evil franchise, our titles are made from a very clear and impactful naming system; usually it’s just ‘Resident Evil’ and a clear or simple single word in alignment with that. When we were deciding the title of this remake, we wanted to select one word that was most representative of the game and we thought that ‘Veronica’ was the title that did that the best.”
Resident Evil Veronica is currently slated for a 2027 release on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch 2.