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Puppet Combo Brings ‘The Backrooms’ to Consoles Today! [Trailer]
Just in case you missed it last week, Puppet Combo has released their new liminal horror video game The Backrooms on PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series today.
The game focuses on Terrence, your typical office guy who’s having a typical day at the office. However, while traveling home, he inexplicably falls down to the Backrooms. A journey chronicling 7 days… Can Terrence escape this liminal horror phenomenon? Or will he be trapped within this place forever?
The Backrooms is a horror adventure game where you explore the liminal space of the Backrooms while you interact with strange and creepy characters. Explore the Backrooms, find the unexpected as you go into impossible spaces and see things you shouldn’t have seen.
Puppet Combo brings the liminal horror phenomenon from obscure corners of the internet to console players looking for exploration-based atmospheric horror.
Meanwhile, Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut with his adaptation of the Backrooms on May 29 with (you guessed it) Backrooms. Starring Academy Award nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor (Venom: The Last Dance) and Renate Reinsve (A Different Man), the cast also features Mark Duplass (Creep), Finn Bennett (“True Detective: Night Country”), Lukita Maxwell (“Shrinking”), and Avan Jogia (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City).
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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.