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‘Grave’ Devs Take a (Hilarious) Stab At Guerrilla Marketing
The folks behind the surreal survival horror game Grave have released a new video that offers a behind-the-scenes look at their strategy to get unsuspecting strangers to spend their tax returns on their game. In an ideal world, everyone would just buy Grave, because it’s a fantastic game that’s as unsettling as it is weird.
Thankfully, some people need to be sold on it, and it’s because of this that we got this amazing video.
There are only eight days left in the game’s crowdfunding campaign, which, for some reason, is still way short of its $30,000 goal. You can help remedy that by supporting it on Kickstarter.
And here’s my playthrough of the game’s demo, in case you missed it the first time around.
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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.