Month: January 2025

As a simulation of a trip through a house of horrors, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood gets the basics right. There’s blood, murderous bad guys, and abandoned, decrepit structures around every corner. Rather than meander on foot, you sit in a cart on rails that automatically moves forward through these demented environments. At first, you’re in a proper set of horrific-but-safe scenes, armed with air pistols, but it doesn’t take long for the game to give way to more “realistic” threats and issue shotguns and revolvers in favor of toys. Though it transforms and tries to evoke true horror, Rush of Blood remains a benign experience that fails to elicit real fear; it’s ultimately a basic light-gun-like game with jump scares you can see coming a mile away.

With a PlayStation Move co…

In 1999, The Blair Witch Project became an instant horror sensation and innovated the new film genre of “found footage” and became one of the year’s biggest movies. The film launched a multi-media franchise with sequels, comics, and video games, but not so much the careers of the original cast.

Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams have come together with a public proposal to Lionsgate after the studio recently announced a partnership with Blumhouse to reboot the series. The trio wrote in a statement that they’re asking Lionsgate for retroactive and future residual payments, “meaningful consultation” on any future Blair Witch projects, and an annual $60,000 grant for “an unknown/aspiring genre filmmaker to assist in making their first feature film.”

They con…

Earth Defense Force 6 launched this week for PC, PS4, and PS5, and the Steam version has faced criticism for requiring an Epic Games Store login for online play. But a change to this controversial requirement is already being explored by the game’s developer.”

The announcement seemingly came out of nowhere, as the Epic requirement wasn’t communicated to players until launch day when the developers revealed it in a Steam post. Of course, players weren’t thrilled about this, and the review status of the game was “mostly negative” upon launch, as Gamesradar reports.

Developer Sandlot responded to the backlash with a new post on Steam, saying, “The EDF 6 development team for Steam is reviewing and planning changes to the specification that requires sign-in to Epic Games account,…