Genre cinema can come from the strangest of places. One of the biggest surprises of TIFF this year was finding genre gems outside the Midnight Madness program, like the movies of the Contemporary World Cinema. These are mostly movies that dabble in genre without going fully going into the extreme. One of the best examples […]
Bioware’s open-world RPG Anthem hasn’t been as big of a success as they’d have hoped. Still, the devs are working to try and correct the lingering issues. In a recent blog post on the official site, Bioware’s head of live service, Chad Robertson, discusses supporting Anthem long-term and addressing some concerns players have had. “We […]
What would happen if Aaron Sorkin – he of The West Wing – wrote a period drama/paranoid alien conspiracy thriller? You would have The Vast of Night, a late 50s-set film about a pair of intrepid teen reporters who stumble upon an otherworldly presence in their small town on the night of a big basketball […]
As exciting as it was for Capcom to finally reveal Project Resistance, their upcoming multiplayer spin-off to Resident Evil, there are still those chiding the company for doing so. Some folks are unhappy that it’s not a full-on Resident Evil game, while others are reminded of Capcom’s past shortcomings when it came to multiplayer offerings […]
Rob Zombie is back and he’s bringing his homicidal Firefly Family with him in 3 From Hell, debuting this week in theaters via Fathom. That’s a pretty neat trick, considering that all those characters died in a hail of gunfire at the end of their last film, The Devil’s Rejects, way back in 2005. In a new interview […]
In the mood for some sci-fi gory action in your video game? Publisher Focus Home Interactive and developer Deck13 have released a new trailer for their upcoming action-RPG The Surge 2 that does exactly that. Dubbed “Symphony of Violence”, the new trailer highlights just how violent, slowing the action down to really let you enjoy […]
As of this month, Rob Zombie has turned his 2003 horror hit House of 1,000 Corpses into a full-fledged horror trilogy. The story of the homicidally maniacal Firefly Family, first introduced as the purveyor of roadside attractions, mutated into an ultraviolent neo-western with The Devil’s Rejects, and into a prison break thriller with next week’s 3 From Hell. But […]
After all the Gamescom footage, The Farm 51 have announced that their upcoming first-person shooter, Chernobylite, will be hitting Steam Early Access on October 16. Described as “non-linear, unpredictable, and fully dependent on the player’s decisions, which leads to many possible endings”, the Early Access version of the game will feature “eight hours of storytelling […]
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects artists, as well as advances in technology. Artists like Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Tom Savini, Stan Winston, and countless others delivered groundbreaking, mind-blowing practical […]
In what seems like a minor resurgence of companies wanting players to “try before you buy”, Asobo Studio has joined in on developers creating demos for their games to get fence-sitting players to take the dive. Starting today, you can snag a demo for A Plague Tale: Innocence on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The […]