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Still Wakes the Deep will pit you against unknown nautical horrors starting on June 18
Still Wakes the Deep for the PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), the Xbox Series X|S and the PS5 will be available on June 18, 2024.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 returns from the shadows with a new developer
Paradox Interactive has brought in Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture studio The Chinese Room to work on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. The sequel is now expected to arrive in fall 2024.
The 'Dear Esther' studio is building an oil-rig horror game, 'Still Wakes the Deep'
The Chinese Room — the studio behind Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture — is back with a new horror experience, Still Wakes the Deep.
Popular indie game 'Dear Esther' is coming to iOS
Journey made a surprise debut on iOS this week and you'll soon be able to play another indie darling on the go. The Chinese Room says its exploration-focused Dear Esther will be available for iPhone and iPad later this year.
PS4 exclusive Everybody's Gone to the Rapture removes time restriction
Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs developer The Chinese Room revealed that its upcoming PlayStation 4-exclusive open-world adventure game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture will no longer require multiple playthroughs before players can see its ending. Previously, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was locked to hour-long playthroughs, encouraging players to take alternate approaches to in-game events, a la the film Groundhog Day. After an hour of playtime, the game would start over from the beginning, challenging players to explore as much as possible in the limited time they had. "Imagine reading a novel and you're really into it, and 30 pages before the end someone comes up and takes it out of your hand and goes, 'I'm afraid that's it. Your time's up,'" writer Dan Pinchbeck explained in a recent interview with Eurogamer. "It's an artificial conceit that doesn't necessarily produce a good player experience." Pinchbeck notes that time still plays a "fairly central role" in the experience, and assures that the removal of the time limit does not change the game's focus or storyline. A release date for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture has not been announced.
The Chinese Room job listings call out next-gen game for 2015
British development studio thechineseroom, the outfit you may remember for its work on Dear Esther and the upcoming Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, is working on an open-world, first-person game for next-generation consoles. "We have just signed a development deal with a major publisher and are expanding our team for a next-generation console project, scheduled for release in summer 2015," a job listing for a visual FX artist points out. A second job listing for an audio designer mentions the unannounced game runs on CryEngine 3, suggesting this next-gen console game is Everybody's Gone to Rapture, the spiritual successor to Dear Esther. The official site for thechineseroom says to expect more info on this mystery game "in late summer." In February, thechineseroom pushed back A Machine for Pigs' launch to the second quarter of this year, between April and June.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs dev teases ... um, a pig monster
The terror of Frictional's first Amnesia game never involved the almost comical squeals of a pig wielding what sounds like an axe. In Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, that's all gonna change. See – er, hear – for yourself in the latest teaser, above.
Dear Esther is looking especially sharp after being put through the Portal 2 engine
We forgive you if you don't remember what Dear Esther is -- it's the Half-Life 2 mod turned commercial game set for release this Valentine's Day. What a perfect day for launch, as we're told the game is quite easy to fall in love with.
