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Delve Into the Cenobites in the Latest ‘Hellraiser: Revival’ Dev Diary [Video]
Boss Team Games and Saber Interactive continue their developer diary series for the upcoming Hellraiser: Revival, this time turning to the topic of the Cenobites themselves. Joined once again by Pinhead himself, Doug Bradley, and members of the development team, the dev diary focuses on how the devteams bring players face to face with the Cenobites like never before.
While his infamy has grown into the stuff of legends in the nearly four decades since the original film’s debut, Pinhead has always been more than a mindless killing machine. “I’m often asked by fans about favorite kills [from the series],” says Bradley in the opening of the video. “And I think that’s a misconception about Pinhead because he’s not really a killer. The killing is not the thing for him. It’s the suffering.”
With Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, Saber and Boss Team Games are delving deeper into the twisted depths of who the Cenobites are…and what they may really be after. As players investigate this mystery, they’ll have to survive the predictably unimaginable realm of suffering from the Cenobites. In addition to Pinhead himself, that includes the Chatterer, Butterball, and the Female Cenobite. Each Cenobite has been faithfully brought to un-life in unique ways reflected by the game’s atmosphere, environmental design and more.
Hellraiser: Revival welcomes you to the suffering later this year on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series.
While not quite Snakes on a Plane or Red Eye, co-developers Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle have something darker in mind with their upcoming job-sim horror game, Night Plane. Coming to Steam later this year, the game has you doing the expected work as a flight attendant, but with the added bonus of trying to find demons hiding amongst the passengers.
It’s 1999, and it’s your first day on the job. You must do the usual things as a flight attendant: welcoming passengers aboard, check tickets, and attend to their needs. However, shape-shifting entities may attempt to come aboard disguised as humans. So, your additional job in Night Plane is to question passengers, and find a way to remove any unauthorized non-human visitors from the plane.
That also leads to assisting passengers in unorthodox ways inside the plane, outside the plane, and in places not listed in your training manual. To make things even more complicated, you’ll need to make tough decisions with irreversible consequences. Naturally, the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them.
Oh, and seeing as this is a plane, you may encounter some turbulence while in flight, along with power failures, lightning strikes and more. All of which, including your decisions, will lead to one of the multiple endings in Night Plane.
If you wish to get in on the fun prior to the game’s release, you can sign up for the playtest via the Steam page.