Under raging storm clouds, the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich stands silhouetted against the ancient walls of Castle Ravenloft. Rumbling thunder pounds the castle spires. The wind’s howling increases as he turns his gaze down toward the village of Barovia.
Far below, yet not beyond his keen eyesight, a party of adventurers has just entered his domain. Strahd’s face forms the barest hint of a smile as his dark plan unfolds. He knew they were coming, and he knows why they came—all according to his plan.
A lightning flash rips through the darkness, but Strahd is gone. Only the howling of the wind fills the midnight air. The master of Castle Ravenloft is having guests for dinner. And you are invited.
COFFIN COMPONENTS
Curse of Strahd, one of the most popular Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game products of all time, split into three parts: a 224-page perfect-bound adventure for characters of levels 1–10, a 20-page Creatures of Horror booklet of new monsters that appear in the adventure, and an 8-page Tarokka Deck booklet.
A cover sheet with Strahd von Zarovich’s image on one side and Strahd’s monster stat block on the other.
A sturdy, four-panel Dungeon Master’s screen designed for use with the adventure.
A double-sided poster map showing the domain of Barovia on one side and Castle Ravenloft on the other.
54 foil-stamped Tarokka cards, which help determine the heroes’ path through the adventure.
A tuck box to hold the Tarokka deck.
12 postcards (3 copies each of 4 different cards), which you can use to invite friends to your game.
Razer announced today that existing Razer products designed for Xbox are compatible with the upcoming Xbox Series X|S when they launch this November, bringing the best of gaming peripherals to Microsoft’s next-gen consoles.
Razer’s award-winning range of products designed for Xbox have become firm fan favourites. With each product designed to be outstanding within its category, gamers will be delighted to know that current and future Razer peripherals designed for Xbox will work seamlessly on Microsoft’s new consoles.
Razer Nari Ultimate Designed for Xbox
The Nari Ultimate is the world’s first headset designed for Xbox with high-definition haptic feedback developed by Lofelt™. Ready for haptic feedback in the next generation with Xbox Series X|S, and powered by Razer HyperSense technology, the Nari Ultimate delivers a truly immersive gaming experience thanks to the high fidelity drivers providing crystal clear audio and vibration-based sensory feedback – users don’t just hear the game, they feel the game.
Razer Wolverine Ultimate
Winning multiple awards for its optimized ergonomics, interchangeable thumb sticks and d-pad adaptable for any playstyle, and lit by Razer’s Chroma Lighting, the Razer Wolverine Ultimate is the supreme controller designed for Xbox.
Razer Atrox Arcade Stick
The Razer Atrox Arcade Stick designed for Xbox is a tournament-grade fighting machine built to enhance your gaming prowess. Using premium quality Sanwa components, with 8 highly responsive, programmable buttons and a precision 8-way joystick, fighting game enthusiasts can dominate the game with the Atrox.
The full list of Razer products compatible with Xbox Series X|S includes:
Razer Nari Ultimate Designed for Xbox
Razer Wolverine Ultimate
Razer Wolverine Tournament Edition
Razer Atrox Designed for Xbox arcade stick
Razer Thresher Designed for Xbox
Razer Turret Designed for Xbox
More information on each product can be found at razer.com
Frictional Games is pleased to announce that Amnesia: Rebirth, the highly anticipated survival horror game, is now available on PC and PlayStation 4.
In Amnesia: Rebirth, players will step into the world of Tasi Trianon as she wakes up days after a plane crash deep in the desert of Algeria. The crew of her expedition are missing – her friends and loved ones are gone. Why is she alone? Why has she no memory of the last few days? Tasi must retrace her journey, through the desert and beyond, to piece together her fragmented past.
Time is against you, and the desolate landscape will test you to your limits, forcing you to face your own hopes, fears, and bitter regrets. And still you must continue, step by step, knowing that if you fail you will lose everything.
Features:
Explore environments and uncover their histories. In this first-person narrative horror experience, no location is like the others, and each is filled with mysteries and secrets for players to explore.
Overcome challenges that stand in your way. You will encounter a wide and varied number of mysterious contraptions and physics-based puzzles.
Carefully manage your limited resources, both physical and mental in order to stay in the light and keep your fear under control
Encounter horrific creatures and use your wits to escape them
Incredible cinematic sound design that will make you feel inside the game’s world
Don’t let your fear consume you. Stay out of the dark, avoid horrific sights and control your panic or suffer long-lasting consequences.
Follow Amnesia: Rebirth on Steam, GOG, EPIC GAMES, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or the official website athttp://amnesiarebirth.com/.
French development studio and veteran pen and paper players, Tactical Adventures announced today its tactical RPG, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, is available now on Steam Early Access for $29.75 (a 15% launch discount). The Solasta: Crown of the Magister Early Access campaign features brand new elements of verticality, a unique team-based adventure and over 10 hours of authentic tabletop gameplay.
Wizards of the Coast has granted Tactical Adventures a license to use the Dungeons & Dragons SRD 5.1 content and rules in Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
Solasta: Crown of the Magister is a party-based adventure where each character plays a critical role in the campaign and can be a hero. The dynamic and mysterious world features elements of verticality, allowing players to use their surroundings as an element of strategy. Players can position ranged characters on high vantage points or send their thief down into shafts and caverns to scope out what lies ahead. In Solasta: Crown of the Magister, light is a tool to explore the depths and hollows of dungeons or can be used as a weapon against the creatures in the dark, but if players aren’t careful, it will give away the party’s position to nasty creatures bent on their demise.
Solasta: Crown of the Magister Features:
Verticality: Solasta is a three-dimensional world, rather than a series of flat maps. Locations can be explored by climbing walls, flying, teleporting, crawling through tunnels, finding secret passages, or falling through unstable ground, allowing the player to use the environment to take on encounters in multiple different ways.
Team Based Adventure: Players will have many options to choose races, classes, backgrounds, and can even roll for stats as they create their party. All members are essential – together you will adventure through Solasta as a group, where you must work together in pursuit of your quest.
Tactical CRPG: Each encounter can be handled in multiple ways. Will you use the high ground to strike your enemies from above as a Darkweaver Rogue, or shove your enemies into deep chasms as a Mountaineer Fighter? Your choices alone will determine the destiny of your party.
Light: Light will not only help to see your surroundings as you explore deep underground or in a dungeon. It can also be used as a weapon against the light-fearing creatures you will encounter along your journey. Careful, though – light can also give away your position.
Created by Tabletop Players: Tactical Adventures is a team of highly experienced Tabletop players and veteran game developers who are passionate about the genre, striving to create the best Tactical RPG video game
Award-winning Indie game developer Lexip Games is proud to unveil the first look and exclusive playable demo of their upcoming horror-adventure – Silence Channel – scheduled for official release early next year. Produced by the same talented team who previously introduced you to Dark Room, their upcoming game is a continuation to the series of creepy first-person point-and-click adventures.
Silence Channel is a game of exploration and terrifying surprises; you play as John Martin, an Investigative reporter sent to a remote location to check out rumors of unexplainable sightings. Convinced it is nothing more than local folklore and myth, you arrive an early morning in dense fog with the aim of taking a few photos, make a couple of interviews with the locals, and quietly depart to write up your local piece of gossip. Dare you enter the mysterious mansion?
Silence Channel offers a classic point-and-click adventure experience with clues to decipher, doors to unlock, puzzles to solve and mysteries to explain. Collect, combine and use items you discover to progress in the game, and carefully examine clues in the most unlikely of places. Your journal becomes a handy logbook of letters and clues, and walls throughout contain strange messages and riddles of importance. You are not alone, and it is only a matter of time before your luck runs out.
In a world where COVID-19 has all but canceled our most-favorite holiday, Knott’s Berry Farm emerges as a protector – a guardian, if you will. They have managed to not only celebrate the holiday but also do it safely with the Taste of Fall-O-Ween. The Taste of Fall-O-Ween is the latest in the parks’ tasting events, which are able to circumvent orders to keep theme parks closed by not having any of the rides powered up. It’s a brilliant strategy – one which I am shocked the park down the street, with the mouse, doesn’t do. But, I digress…
The Taste of Fall-O-Ween sees Knott’s Berry Farm fully decked-out for the spooky season. Not only that, but they have brought to the fore a plethora of Halloween-inspired food items for guests to try. With the $35 dollar purchase of a tasting card (that’s your actual ticket to the event now as they cannot sell regular theme park tickets anymore), you get 5 tastings. If you’re still hungry or thirsty after that, of course you can buy additional offerings.
Here is our full video review of the experience:
The food is great, as is the overall health safety level of the event. Everyone is wearing masks and the park is being extra careful with sanitizer stations throughout the park and distancing guidelines posted everywhere. The crowds were also very respectful of the health guidelines and at no time did I feel unsafe or in danger of catching creepy crawly germs.
The only thing that could have been better about the Taste of Fall-O-Ween is if they had a scary walk-through option for the adults in addition to the kid-friendly trick or treat trail experience. That way the adults in the crowd could get their Scary Farm itch scratched slightly. Overall, Knott’s Taste of Fall-O-Ween is an outstanding spooky season event and I can’t wait to check out the park’s Merry Farm-style offering, which should be up next!
TOMY Company, Ltd. and Outright Games, the leading worldwide publisher of family-friendly interactive entertainment, today released the ultimate mecha showdown Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed. Featuring legendary characters from the hugely successful Zoids franchise, this new game finally brings Western audiences the exhilarating 1v1 battles, stunning anime faithful graphics and action packed 3D combat they have been waiting for, exclusively on Nintendo Switch™.
Watch the brand-new launch trailer here:
Follow Arashi and his Liger as they help Team Freedom defeat the power-hungry Dark Metal Empire, in spectacular head-to-head battles!With stunning graphics faithful to the anime and a simple 3D combat system that lets you instinctively chain combos, adventure awaits in Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed. Take mecha combat to the next level!
Key Features:
Go head to head – Compete in 1vs1 mecha battles with breathtaking 3D combat
Enter the Zoids universe – Play as a large cast of Zoids characters with faithful visuals
New story – Join the war between factions and discover a new Zoids sub-species
2-player action – Test your skills against other players
Simple controls – Easily chain moves and devastate opponents with your Final Blast
“We’re thrilled to today bring a new iteration of the wildly popular Zoids to the West,” said Terry Malham, CEO of Outright Games. “This is an incredibly exciting franchise, with a universe and legacy that is ideal for a video game adaptation. With an extensive cast of the most popular Zoids, and an in depth story modem, we feel we have created a faithful adaptation that fans will love.”
Zoids is a global franchise that spans 35+ years, with its long running series of model kits, comics, TV shows and video games. Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed is based on the most recent smash-hit anime series iteration ‘Zoids Wild’.
Zoids Wild” Blast Unleashed is available now for Nintendo Switch:
It’s time for another journey into the dark depths of the Shadow Realm. The Coma: Recut is relaunching on Nintendo Switch today, with all-new graphical and text updates just in time for the Halloween season! Take on the role of Youngho as you try to evade Dark Song, the unstoppable psycho slasher.
Devespresso Games and Headup are celebrating their partnership with the Korean horror franchise by releasing this updated version of The Coma: Recut which features enhanced character graphics, animations, and lore. From today’s launch on the Nintendo eShop until November 5th, buyers will get a discount of 25%. The standard price is 14.99 USD.
Synopsis
After spending all night studying for the last day of Sehwa High’s final exams, Youngho has an eerie dream. He arrives at school the next morning and learns someone tried to commit suicide in school the night before. Despite this, class goes on! Youngho drifts asleep during the final only to wake and find himself trapped in the school at night. The only problem is… he’s not alone. You can run. You can hide. Can you survive while piecing together the nightmarish mystery of Sehwa High?
The game’s Nintendo Switch relaunch follows on the heels The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters, which came out earlier this year. On Steam, that game was greeted with an “Overwhelmingly Positive” reception (97% positive). With Halloween just around the corner, those who have yet to experience the thrills of The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters, may want to start by giving Devespresso’s cult classic a try!
Disney+, which launched last November giving “The Simpsons” a new streaming home, is now the ultimate entertainment hub for fans of Springfield’s most famous residents. With the recently added 31st season and nearly 300 hours of the world’s longest running scripted primetime sitcom, today Disney+ kicked off its new “Simpsons Forever” brand campaign celebrating the forever place of everyone’s favorite family in the hearts and homes of fans around the world.
The service also debuted “The Simpsons Horror” collection, including 30 episodes of the iconic genre-bending “Treehouse of Horror” franchise. The new collection is the latest in Disney+’s series of themed sets including “The Simpsons Predicts,” “The Simpsons Travels,” “The Simpsons Rock” and “The Simpsons Sports” collections. As part of the “Simpsons Forever” campaign, Disney+ will curate more collections of episodes for new viewers to discover. Every month, Disney+ will also highlight its favorite episodes themed to current events and trends in Disney and pop culture.
“The Simpsons”Forever Faves of November 2020:
“The Mandalorian” Returns / “Co-Dependents’ Day” (Season 15, Episode 15)
Disappointed by a Cosmic Wars movie, Bart and Lisa go to wine country to complain to the filmmaker.
“The Right Stuff” Streaming Now / “Deep Space Homer” (Season 5, Episode 15)
In an attempt to send an average man into space, Homer and Barney are recruited as astronauts. Homer saves the mission from disaster, but is dismayed when credit goes to a carbon rod.
Monday Night Football on ESPN / “Bart Star” (Season 9, Episode 7)
Bart joins a junior-league football team. When Homer becomes coach, he replaces quarterback Nelson with the less talented Bart.
30 Years of “Home Alone” / “Homer Alone” (Season 3, Episode 15)
When Marge goes to a local spa, she leaves Bart and Lisa with Patty and Selma and Maggie with Homer.
Nov. 3 Election Day – “Sideshow Bob Roberts” (Season 6, Episode 5)
Sideshow Bob runs for mayor as the candidate of Springfield’s Republican party. He wins and attempts to construct a freeway overpass where the Simpson home stands.
Nov. 26 Thanksgiving Day – “Thanksgiving of Horror” (Season 30, Episode 8)
Three tales of Thanksgiving terror: a bloody first “turkey day,” a virtual Marge cooks for survival against real Marge, and a space mission is threatened by a murderous side dish.
Nov. 27 Black Friday – “Tis the 30th Season” (Season 30, Episode 10)
After a terrible Black Friday where Marge can’t get the gift the kids desperately want, the Simpsons try to spend a relaxing Florida Christmas.
After first premiering on television nearly 31 years ago, “The Simpsons” is now one of the most popular franchises around the world and remains one of Disney+’s most streamed series since the service launched last November. With its “Simpsons Forever” campaign, Disney+ is celebrating fans’ forever love of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie and the service’s comprehensive collection of “The Simpsons” entertainment. The campaign will come to life all year long with on-service content and product updates, special events, social activations, and surprise and delight moments.
Last week, Disney+ surprised guests at the Disney+ Drive-In Festival with special “The Simpsons” screenings during its nightly lineups. And earlier this year, the service launched a product update allowing fans to enjoy “The Simpsons” episodes in their original aspect ratio and also offered the short “Maggie Simpson in ‘Playdate with Destiny’” across its social channels for free.
To watch all of “The Simpsons” content on Disney+ including 31 seasons of the series, animated shorts “Maggie Simpsons in ‘The Longest Daycare’” and “Maggie Simpson in ‘Play date with Destiny,’” and “The Simpsons Movie,” visit DisneyPlus.com/SimpsonsForever.
Game publisher and all-round nice folks Raw Fury AB, along with developer Mattias “Ditto” Dittrich, game designer at Swedish indie studio Art in Heart, are as excited as over-sugared kids on Christmas Eve to reveal that GONNER2, the sequel to the IGF-winning GoNNER, will launch for PC on Steam and GOG, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch on October 22, 2020.
GONNER2 is a messily cute, procedurally generated action-platformer featuring roguelike elements that will keep you on your toes at all times. Or anyone else’s toes, if they’re standing too close. Prepare to wake your inner child as you fly across levels shooting everything that moves and pulling off crazy acrobatic kills, all the while trying to figure out what kind of crazy candy fueled, chaotically colorful world you have ended up in.
But there’s more! Every time you play GONNER2 the levels will be completely different and present weirdly unique challenges and opportunities for you to take on, along with secrets to discover. And of course, not forgetting the heads (heads?), guns and upgrades. Lots and lots of heads, guns and upgrades. To boot, GONNER2 comes with even more color and chaos than the original and introduces local co-op for up to 4 players, so the whole family can gather up in the couch and get at it together!
So mark off the calendar, discerning player of awesome indie games. Get ready for tricksy excitement, spinning action and mind-dazzling surprises when GONNER2 brings forth its child-like charm and releases for PC on Steam and GOG, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch on October 22nd! Windows 10, Xbox Game Pass for PC and Playstation 4 players need not worry, we’ll have more information coming soon.
For more information on Art In Heart and GONNER2 visit the game’s official website here.
