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Found Footage Horror Game ‘Paranormal Tales’ Terrifies With New Trailer [Video]
Ever since the gameplay trailer arrived back in March for Digital Cybercherries’ Paranormal Tales, it’s a question of when we’d get to see more of the game in action. Lucky for us, Digital Cybercherries is back again with another trailer for Paranormal Tales that gives another glimpse at the jump-scare inducing gameplay with a new trailer entitled “The Man Downstairs”.
Built on the power of the Unreal Engine 5, Paranormal Tales is a next-gen horror game based on found footage. In the game, the Horror Cam archives committee has obtained various video files that detail the moments leading up to a person’s disappearance, with each file functioning as a self-contained experience. In order to find out what happened to the people who recorded them, you play through said “videos”, which include a variety of locations that tell vastly different stories for the player to experience. Taking a few cues from the P.T. demo, players will experience and play through each tragic tale of those who went missing from the viewpoint of found footage from bodycams, phones, and VHS cameras.
Players can expect to experience gameplay mechanics such as facial recognition, dynamic breathing, interaction with household objects, stumbling when sprinting, and of course the genre cliché of jump scares. Paranormal Tales will take players through multiple locations and tales where nothing is safe. What may seem to be an ordinary lived-in house can suddenly turn into something more sinister for players that are brave enough to explore further.
Currently, the game is expected for a 2023 release on PC via Steam.
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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.