So, Harrison posed the question of which character’s campaign Resident Evil 2 players preferred. And while that’s obviously subjective, the recent global stats for the game reveal a bit more objective findings. For starters 80% of first-time players choose Leon over Claire. The site also breaks down the cumulative amount of time players have spent […]
The animated Hotel Transylvania franchise is still performing incredibly well at the box office, with the most recent third installment grossing over $500 million worldwide last year. Not surprisingly, a fourth installment is on the way, and we’ve learned tonight that Hotel Transylvania 4 has been dated for Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021. As Deadline notes, Hotel […]
Well sadly this looked more and more likely given the many troubles that surrounded PayDay developer Starbreeze Studios and the ill-fated co-op title based on The Walking Dead, but IP owner and publisher Skybound Entertainment has canceled its contract with Starbreeze and will now discontinue all efforts related to Overkill’s The Walking Dead. Skybound sent […]
Given its box office success earlier this year, we knew it was only a matter of time before a sequel to Adam Robitel‘s Escape Room was ordered up, and Deadline reports tonight that Sony is indeed developing Escape Room 2, with Robitel returning to direct! Plot details, at this time, are under wraps. Escape Room follows […]
Things haven’t gone so well with Red Candle Games’ Devotion. Since its release earlier this month, the Taiwanese game was criticized by China for apparently mocking Chinese president Xi Jinping. That quickly led to a massive review bombing of the game on Steam that quickly spread to the first game in the series, Detention. And […]
One of the big winners of the ongoing Academy Awards is Google, who just ran a series of commercials where they imagine several high profile films with the invent of the Pixel 3 phone. Two were slashers, Alfred Hitchcock‘s iconic Psycho (196) and Wes Craven‘s infamous Scream (1996), both of which I’ve embedded below. The spot for Psycho is […]
We’re still waiting on the return of the Xbox’s other flagship franchise in Gears of War 5 (as well as the long-in-development film adaptation). The trailer for GoW5 was revealed last year at E3 with a 2019 release date, but we’ve heard nothing since then. But now, head of Xbox Phil Spencer has given us […]
As far as we’ve seen/heard, Abe Sapien will *not* be appearing in Neil Marshall‘s upcoming Hellboy, the character of course memorably played by Doug Jones in Guillermo del Toro’s two movies. But, for what it’s worth, Jones reveals in a new chat with THR this week that he *was* offered the chance to make a […]
Having debuted last Halloween on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and PS Vita platforms, Aksys Games’ Death Mark will soon be making the transition to PC. With a classic J-Horror set-up, reminiscent of Ju-on or Ringu, the game’s central mystery revolves around a fatal omen that takes the form of an inexplicable bite mark. According […]
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans […]