PQube will release the ROOTNSTUDIO-developed horror game White Day 2: The Flower That Tells Lies Complete Edition on PS5 this year with a planned physical release.

White Day 2: Complete Edition details

First released on Steam, white Day 2 is an episodic horror game covering the accounts of four individuals who visit a cursed school.

Watch the White Day 2: Complete Edition trailer below and read the episode descriptions.

Episode 1: Disturbed by rumors of her involvement in the death of a fellow student, Jung Soo-jin is determined to set the record straight and regain the trust of her crush Jang Sung-tae. But as the pair search for clues, they learn of a far darker secret deep within the bowels of the school, and become prey in a relentless hunt.

Episode 2: At the same time, former teacher-in-training Kang Seo-yeon arrives to investigate the ambiguous circumstances surrounding her father’s passing on the school grounds. Drawing on her knowledge of the occult, Seo-yeon attempts to reverse an ancient ritual while evading a powerful and malicious ghost that is inexorably drawn to her.

Episode 3: Having made a promise that can’t be broken, first-year student Yoo Ji-min searches for a way to bring peace to the restless spirit of Han Na-young. Delving deeper into the tragic history of the school and the complex relationships between its students, Ji-min makes a fateful discovery that will lift the veil of obscurity once and for all.

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The official Silent Hill account on social media has given fans the chance to name Silent Hill: The Short Message’s flowery monster.

Fans will name new Silent Hill monster

The poll has four choices and two days to vote on it, presumably to make the winning name canon to Silent Hill lore.

Silent Hill: The Short Message is a short first-person horror title that was released for free on the PS5. Having clocked up more than a million downloads in it’s first week, it’s more than doubled that since, and despite mixed reception, the central monster is undeniably a highlight.

It sees legendary composer Akira Yamaoka return to score a Silent Hill game again, and creator Masahiro Ito is also involved in the modern spin on the formula, including designing the creature

The story of Silent Hill The Short Message is detailed below.

Following messages from her friend Maya, Anita finds herself at a crumbling apartment block, infamous for rumors of suicides. Drawn inside, Anita soon finds her sense of reality shattered as she encounters bizarre, otherworldly spaces, haunted by a twisted monster. Maya’s message was clear — “can’t leave til you find it” — but what is it that Anita is really looking for?

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Remedy Entertainment has revealed sales figures for Alan Wake 2, making it the developer’s fastest-selling game yet.

Alan Wake 2 sales herald little darkness

The developer behind Max Payne, Control, and Quantum Break announced that Alan Wake 2 has sold 1 million units by the end of December 2023, and 1.3 million units as of the beginning of February 2024.

Comparatively, Remedy’s previous best, 2019’s Control, sold over 50% fewer copies and over three times fewer digital copies in four months than Alan Wake 2 did in two months.

Control has had a long tail to its sales, with more than four million copies sold since launch, and Remedy believes the same will be true of Alan Wake 2, especially with two DLC expansions arriving soon.

“We are happy with the start of Alan Wake 2’s sales. The price point has also remained at a high level, and the game has already recouped a significant part of the development and marketing expenses. We will continue to develop the game to serve existing fans and attract new players and expect the game to continue selling well.” Remedy CEO Tero Virtala said of the news.

“The successful launch of Alan Wake 2 has supported our other game projects: Condor, Control 2 and Max Payne 1&2 remake have all increased development pace thanks to the personnel released from Alan Wake 2, and we expect these projects to reach their next development stages during the first half of 2024,” continued Virtala. ”We now have two established franchises: Control and Alan Wake, which are linked through the Remedy Connected Universe. Growing and expanding these franchises will be a key part of our future.”

Alan Wake 2 launched to critical acclaim on October 27, 2023 and was featured in PlayStation Lifestyle’s Best Horror Games of 2023 and was also the site’s Game of the Year after polling highest among staff.

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Publisher PM Studios and developer CryingPsycho will release rhythm platformer Krimson for PS4 and PS5 next month.

Krimson is Rhythm Hell

Krimson is a challenging, gritty rhythm platformer featuring heavy electronic metal music. You’re an unknown spawn moving through a hellish world as it shifts rhythmically to the music. One wrong move means death, but the checkpoints are often, and death is very short.

Hell hath rhythm, and only the ones who can dance with it can conquer it. Platforms, obstacles, hazards, objects, and rules change in synch with music, the heart of this game. This game is an interactive industrial electronic techno dubstep metal album so prepare your finest headphones for this one; your ears will thank you for it!

You will not get comfortable. The game demands your attention. It’s a challenge of your skills, your mind, and sometimes, your patience. Get comfortable with not being comfortable. But that’s a price worth paying for those willing to conquer hell itself.

You can view the Krimson trailer below.

The game features four different settings. A blood-soaked organic and demonic setting filled with red all over, complemented by dirty distorted electronic tunes. A sharp, filthy, grungy, and ruthless industrial setting accompanied by grungy industrial musical madness. A psychedelic LSD-fueled acid trip that just gets trippier with techno, acid and dubstep beats to bang your bloody head to ’till you don’t feel your neck. And finally, a brain-melting, eye-piercing, hot molten metal madness of fire and lava with the most brutal, destructive, devastating argent metal to melt your eyes too.

Krimson heads to PS4, S5, and other formats on March 21, 2024

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Konami producer Motoi Okamoto has confirmed Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake is in the final stage of development.

Silent Hill 2 remake in the final stretch

Speaking to Famitsu, Okamoto, who spearheads the Silent Hill revival, was asked how development was going on the Silent Hill 2 remake, and while he wasn’t going too in-depth, he did lead with this fact.

”we are at the final stage of development. Unfortunately, there is little I can tell you at this point. As a game, you can imagine Silent Hill 2 is the same as everyone imagines, and is easy to play in modern times, and can be enjoyed with beautiful visuals that look like a direct form of memory correction”.

The description of how the Silent Hill 2 remake will play backs up previous comments from Bloober Team that it was being ”safe” with the game.

As aforementioned, we take a very safe approach to any changes. We remain faithful to the original title. Nonetheless, we are applying adjustments to certain areas where things need modernizing due to the passage of time.

Silent Hill made its return recently with a combat trailer for the Silent Hill 2 remake and a brand new free game titled Silent Hill: The Short Message, which was released on PS5.

The Silent Hill 2 combat trailer was the first time fans had seen the remake since its initial reveal trailer in 2022. The game has been in development for over four years now, and it does seem like it should be close to wrapping up at this point. A 2024 release still looks quite likely.

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Vampire coop shooter EvilVEvil from Toadman Interactive is set to hit consoles in the Summer.

EvilVEvil details

In EvilVEvil, players will become an ancient, powerful vampire awoken from their long slumber. They are members of The Order of the Dragon, divinely ordained protectors against Zagreus—an all-powerful evil hell-bent on consuming the essence of humanity to make him into the most powerful being in the universe. The only way to fight evil is to become evil, so players must give in to their vampiric urges, and cause bloody Armageddon across EvilVEvil‘s rich story campaign, which features 11 episodic missions for one to three players.

You can watch the announce trailer for EvilVEvil below.

As players cut a bloody path through their victims, artifacts and weapon mods are unlocked, allowing players to adapt their play style and become more powerful in their unholy battle against the forces of evil. But battling Zagreus’ legions isn’t the only thing to consider. Players are rewarded for being the most destructive killing machine and must compete to see who can be the most deadly while fighting through hordes of challenging enemies.

EvilVEvil launches this Summer with three playable characters. Mashaka, who surprises his enemies with a teleport ability, then scorches them with his fire magic; Leon the juggernaut, who chains enemies, pulling them towards a devastating fate; and Victoria, the leader of the team, who can send out copies of herself to hunt down enemies and then slice them apart with her deadly katana.

EvilVEvil will cost $19.99 when it is released on PS5. If you want an early taste of its vampiric carnage, a closed beta for PC is scheduled for March 1, 2024.

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Torture Star Video has released Selewi’s PSX-style slasher survival horror game Cannibal Abduction on PS4 and PS5 today.

Cannibal Abduction details

”After borrowing his father’s car, Henry is ready to finally have a weekend trip to escape from his parents house. Everything was on track until the engine stops running in the middle of nowhere and a humble local offers to tow Henry to his farm in order to fix the car problem, but he and his family had other plans for the young punk.

Put yourself in Henry’s sneakers and try to escape from the house of the cannibal family in this thrilling survival horror game made by the developers of The Night of the Scissors, and once again, inspired by classic slasher movies from the 80s and survival horror PSX games.”

The game also comes with Selewi’s debut game, Night Of the Scissors, bundled in at no extra cost.

In Night of the Scissors. Adam, encouraged by his friend, decides to break into an abandoned post office for scrapping. Soon he will discover that a maniac wielding a pair of scissors and ready to kill is lurking around the place.Will he find his way out?

Torture Star has brought a host of revered indie horror titles to PlayStation in the last few years including Murder House, Nun Massacre, and Night at the Gates of Hell.

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The Chinese Room has released a developer diary sharing details about authentically representing the World of Darkness IP in Bloodlines 2.

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 in a World of Darkness

 Featuring commentary from Project Creative Director Alex Skidmore, the diary explains how players assume the role of Phyre and their motivations while navigating their role as the Camarilla Court’s Sheriff. Skidmore also explores how the team created Seattle from the eyes of a vampire, making buildings taller, lights brighter, and alleyways darker to mimic the heightened senses of those lurking in the shadows. 

”We want you to feel like you are seeing Seattle through the eyes of a vampire,” writes Skidmore in the blog post. ”So we have also made buildings taller, lights brighter, and alleyways darker to give an overall heightened feeling to what you are seeing as if you are looking through the eyes of an apex predator.”

Skidmore also explained how the story feeds into the skill tree of Bloodlines 2.

”Phyre’s motivation in the story is driven (at least initially) by regaining her power – she has awoken after 100 years in torpor (vampire hibernation) 6000 miles from home with markings all over her body which are limiting her powers. This sets up the narrative context of the ability tree (which we will show in due course) which instead of being about adding new powers to Phyre, like levelling up in the pen-and-paper RPG, you are unlocking her existing powers.”

Bloodlines 2 is the successor to the cult-classic Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. The game takes players to the dark underbelly of Seattle, where vampires struggle for survival and supremacy.

Hardsuit Labs had previously handled the development of the game. After multiple delays and the firing of creative director Ka’ai Cluney, narrative designer Cara Ellison, and lead narrative designer Brian Mitsoda, Paradox dropped the developer back in 2021 and handed the game a further delay added to 2022. It was then given to UK studio The Chinese Room who made indie hits Dear Esther and Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is set to be released in Fall 2024.

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Developer Pixelsplit and Publisher Daedalic Entertainment have released an in-depth look at new gameplay for their upcoming psychological thriller Reveil.

Reveil Gameplay

In the video, we experience the beginning of Reveil and, later on, an intense brief segment from further into the game.

You can watch the 20-minute showcase below.

Join the main character Walter Thompson, as he wakes up in his bedroom, just to realize soon after that this is not his home – but a place where different memories of his get interwoven with each other. Walter starts the search for his daughter Dorie while encountering dream-like scenes that all seem to revolve around the Nelson Bros Circus where he once worked. Will you be able to make sense of it all while reality is falling apart?

Reveil’s Funhouse Edition launches the same day for those looking for an additionally engrossing performance. Filled with extra content and media tied to the game, it’s almost like being in the front-row center seat of the show:

• Five original songs written and produced for REVEIL, featured in previous trailers
• Digital Artbook filled with 41 pages of atmos-fear
• An unlockable black-and-white camera effect
• Unlockable developer commentary
• An encore of five audio plays that allow players to dive deeper into the world and lore of Reveil, recorded with the original voice actors from the game

Reveil will be released on March 6th, 2024, on PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S, while a PlayStation 4 version will follow later this year.

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Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and Grim Fandango appear to be getting PS5 ports according to a rating in Taiwan.

Point n’ Click ports for PS5?

PS4 versions are also mentioned, but the games have already been released on that console. There are currently no native PS5 versions of the games.

Gematsu noted the rating on its social media yesterday.

The games were originally created at LucasArts where the likes of Tim Schafer worked on them. After Grim Fandango was released to critical praise and commercial failure, Schafer and other colleagues leaving LucasArts formed the studio Double Fine. The studio went on to create games such as Brutal Legend, Broken Age, and Psychonauts. Double Fine was acquired by Microsoft in 2019.

The interesting part here is Double Fine worked on the remastered versions of Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango so technically, these games fall under Microsof’s umbrella. Given all the recent murmurings about Xbox games coming to other consoles, this could be a smaller-scale hint of things to come.

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