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Search for Photos’ Hidden Horrors in ‘Shutter Story’ [Trailer]
Rather than be inspired by the 2004 film by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, Frostwood Interactive’s upcoming Shutter Story and its photography-centric gameplay has more in common with Kiyoshi Kurosawa‘s Pulse. Coming soon to Steam, Shutter Story has players uncovering a family’s haunted history by revealing the horrors hidden in their photographs.
Also taking cues from Her Story, Mouthwashing, and Home Safety Hotline, when your best friend Eli insists his family is being haunted, you dismiss it – until he shows you the photos. Now he needs to convince his parents, and as a burgeoning photo editor, that’s where you come in. Armed with the photo and video analysis software SpectralAware™ 2.1, you must tweak exposure settings and work with a variety of filters to reveal the horrors hiding in these photos.
To do so, you’ll need to consult an exhaustive manual detailing every type of anomaly to classify your observations in the right categories. You’ll need to be smart about it, as Eli’s family’s fate depends on how well you do your job. Between your desktop investigations, you’ll explore Eli’s house from a first-person perspective as the horror begins to unfold around you. As you piece together the family history, you’ll learn the true reason behind the hauntings – inherited and passed down through generations.
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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.