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Bloober Team Updates Mysterious Countdown Website
Bloober Team is keeping things interesting with that mysterious countdown website they had launched at the beginning of last month. The website has undergone a bit of a facelift, now featuring a rose logo and an ominous message to go along with the countdown timer.
The rose logo, which if you move your mouse over it, will change to a dripping version that appears to be bleeding (which seems fitting, given the countdown expires just after Valentine’s Day on February 15 at 12:00 a.m. ET). There’s also a cryptic phrase just below the logo, “Some things never leave the walls. They only learn to wait.” To add even more confusion, hitting the “Play” button starts a broken recording of someone reciting the William Blake poem, “The Sick Rose”.
“Thou art sick… invisible flies in the night… Howling storm has found out thy bed of crimson joy… Dark secret thy life destroy.”
Obviously, these new additions have some on the internet now speculating that one of the projects that Bloober Team is working on (in addition to the remake of the original Silent Hill) is Punchline’s 2006 PlayStation 2 psychological horror title, Rule of Rose. However, a remake of Rule of Rose doesn’t appear to be the case, despite the rose commonality. This still leaves the option open to it being a potential new entry in the Layers of Fear series, or a brand new IP altogether.
Once again, we’ll have to see just what Bloober Team is cooking on February 15th.
Moon Studios dropped a new trailer during the Sony State of Play for their dark action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked, while also hinting at the long-awaited launch window for the full 1.0 release. The game, which has been in Early Access on Steam since April 2024, will be launching this October in full for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, while versions for the Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 will arrive at a later date.
As a token of appreciation for supporters new and old, Moon Studios is offering an exclusive Early Access Founder’s Pack, a free limited edition bundle available for anyone who purchases the game on Steam prior to July 10, with rewards unlocking when 1.0 officially launches. PlayStation 5 users can receive the Early Access Founder’s Pack by pre-ordering the game once available, any time before launch day.
The Founder’s Pack includes:
- A New Secret Hideout: Spirit Cavern – The legacy of Moon Studios now lives inside No Rest for the Wicked, exclusively for Founders. A hand-crafted home that bridges both worlds.
- Sayer’s Vow: An all new Sword in the stone reserved just for the founders that only early adopters can extract in the game world.
- A Custom Founders Tag ensures players are clearly identified as early adopters.
- As a Founder member, players will get access to an exclusive Public Beta Test Realm reserved just for them, even after the 1.0 game launch.
As for the full 1.0 release, it will be a massive expansion of the core experience, introducing a staggering 60+ hours of new content, a new horde mode, powerful new weapons, bosses and enemies, new areas and a completely reimagined class system.
In No Rest for the Wicked, players take on the role of a “Cerim,” a member of a holy order imbued with mysterious powers, tasked with destroying the Pestilence, an ancient plague that has begun to consume the island Isola Sacra, itself already the site of great political upheaval and death.