Author - Jerry Paxton

HeroQuest Joe Manganiello’s The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness Out Now

2025/08/18

HeroQuest Joe Manganiello’s The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness is now available on Amazon! This premium version of The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness, previously only available to crowd funders of the HeroQuest relaunch, offers 10 new quests designed by Joe Manganiello, that will have you and your companions venturing into darkness, vanquishing terrible foes, and encountering unlikely allies as you journey deep underground in search of a long-lost crypt, rumored to contain a powerful artifact.

Along with the 10 epic quests, this thrilling expansion also features:

1 metallic black dragon miniature
8 black dice
1 pad of character sheets
20 foil-embellished game cards
2 cardboard tile sheets

HeroQuest Game System or HeroQuest First Light is required to play, sold separately.

Your hero’s journey continues with HeroQuest Joe Manganiello’s The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness Quest Pack! This premium version of The Crypt of Perpetual Darkness, previously only available to crowd funders of the HeroQuest relaunch, includes 10 epic quests designed by Joe Manganiello that will have you and your companions venturing into darkness, vanquishing terrible foes, and encountering unlikely allies as you journey deep underground in search of a long-lost crypt, rumored to contain a powerful artifact. Along with the 10 epic quests, this thrilling expansion features 1 metallic black dragon miniature, 8 black dice, 1 pad of character sheets, 20 foil-embellished game cards, and 2 cardboard tile sheets. HeroQuest Game System required to play, sold separately.

Saber Announces Docked Port Management Sim

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

A longshoreman’s job is never done! Today Saber Interactive, the studio behind advanced sim hits like SnowRunner, Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, and RoadCraft, revealed Docked, a realistic simulation game where you’ll manage daily operations at a bustling port after a devastating hurricane. Operate heavy machinery and vehicles, restore and upgrade the port’s capabilities, and take on new jobs to expand the business. Developed and published by Saber Interactive, Docked is coming to PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

As the manager of Port Wake, it’s your job to get hands-on in the day-to-day operations and save the family business. When the ships roll in, you’ll unload heavy cargo, send out essential freight, and maintain your equipment to peak performance to keep tasks running smoothly. Experience unparalleled immersion as you operate a variety of heavy industrial vehicles with realistic features, establish logistical chains and complete jobs to earn resources, and expand the wharf’s infrastructure to make it more than just a port in a storm.

Let’s get to work!

Port Wake Calls: From ship to crane to truck and beyond, every job is a vital piece of the business. Manage operations and vehicles, take on important contracts, and make high-priority cargo runs to fulfill your commitments. When wear and tear drags your equipment down, execute repairs under strict deadlines to keep the port growing.
Operate Powerful Machinery: Take command of a fleet of realistic machines, expertly engineered with the raw power and precise handling to fulfill your contracts, from colossal ship-to-shore cranes to sturdy, heavy-duty tractors and more. Tighten ropes, position materials, optimize weight distribution, navigate delicate cargo with little margin for error, and gain a firsthand understanding of what it means to work a dock.
Earn, Invest & Expand: Revitalize Port Wake one crane at a time. Every job you take earns cash to invest in new and more powerful machinery. Sign contracts to create new logistical chains and build up resources, purchase lots to store vehicles, upgrade fuel and power supplies, and conquer new milestones to save and expand the family business.

Stygian: Outer Gods New Content Update in Open Beta Now

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Windows PC News

Misterial Games and Fulqrum Publishing has gone live with the upcoming major content update through the Open Beta.

Greetings, ladies, gentlemen, and any eldritch entities watching us from the void!

The upcoming Content Update for Stygian: Outer Gods is almost here, and we’re inviting you to be among the first to experience it through our Open Beta. This is your chance to explore new content, test improvements, and help shape the game before the official release.

The new Content Update brings exciting additions, including mysterious new locations like the House on the Misty Hill and Blood Forest, dangerous new monsters such as Feral Witches and Feral Dogs, powerful artifacts and a brand-new weapon, NPCs, quests and much more. The entire Change Log can be found below.

We encourage everyone to join the Open Beta and share as much feedback as possible. Your insights will be invaluable in helping us fine-tune the update and ensure the best possible experience for all players.

For further information, including how to access the dedicated branch, check out the official Steam page.

Feardemic: Horror Bundle Physical Edition Announced

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 News, Trailers / Videos

GS2 Games and Feardemic are teaming up to make your worst dreams come true this Halloween. On October 31, GS2 Game will release the Feardemic: Horror Bundle for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, a collection of three hit Feardemic games: Burnhouse Lane, No Son of Mine, and Dagon: Complete Edition. Dagan: Complete Edition includes a new DLC pack.

The bundle will retail for $49.99 USD/$69.99 CAD, and pre-orders are open now at Amazon and Best Buy.

Burnhouse Lane

Life in the country sounds like a dream for agency nurse Angie Weather. Fresh air, open vistas, peace and quiet – what’s not to love? Well, for one thing, the malevolent forces are plaguing Angie’s new home. She just wants to carry out her duty to her sick charges, but instead, Angie gets dragged into a twisted contract that turns her job in the country into a fight for her life. As she navigates the seemingly impossible tasks set before her, Angie uncovers more than just the buried secrets of Burnhouse Lane. She finds a reason to keep going, even when everything seems at its darkest.

Features:

Another cult-classic horror hit from the makers of The Cat Lady and Lorelai
Adventure-style puzzle solving meets survival horror action
Branching narrative paths and fully voiced English dialogue

No Son of Mine

Imagine playing a game of hide and seek, in a creepy abandoned building, with dim lighting casting shadows in every corner and mind-bending puzzles blocking your way forward. Your only competitor is a child, and if he wins, you die. That game is No Son of Mine from Pleasantly Friendly Games, and that child is wanted for suspicion of murder. He’s cruel, manipulative, and violent, and the only way to know he’s getting closer is when the lights start to flicker — but by then, it might be too late. No Son of Mine is not for the fainthearted, but if you survive, you might just find out the truth about your tormentor.

Features:

Tense survival horror action with a fierce and unpredictable opponent
Solve twisted puzzles and use your wits to outsmart The Boy
Watch the lights – and prepare to run when they go out

Dagon: Complete Edition

Why settle for a Lovecraftian-inspired story when you can have the real thing? Dagon from Bit Golem lovingly adapts H.P. Lovecraft’s eponymous short story in video game form, putting you in the mind of a morphine addict who finds himself plunged into his most terrifying nightmares. Whether they’re real, the product of delusion, or the tortured attempts of a broken man to understand his experiences in World War I is for you to decide.

Features:

- The origin of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and all the dread and horror it inspires
- Includes all three of Bit Golem’s DLC packs — The Railway Horror, The Little Glass Bottle, and the console-exclusive What the Moon Brings
- Compact and easily digestible, just like the stories they draw from
- Hidden collectibles packed with trivia about Lovecraft’s life and work

God Save Birmingham Gameplay Reveal Trailer

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

Kakao and Ocean Drive Studio are proud to reveal that God Save Birmingham is coming to PAX West, and will be playable on the show floor.

The highly anticipated zombie survival game has already racked up millions of trailer views, and now players visiting Seattle for PAX West will be able to go hands-on with God Save Birmingham, taking their first steps into a medieval British market town overrun with the undead.

As the sole survivor of a zombie plague, players will master physics-based gameplay, stacking furniture to barricade doors, or leaping over low fences to trip the stumbling corpses chasing them. All set in a carefully reconstructed 14th century Birmingham, in all its bucolic, bubonic glory.

For more on what to expect, check out the reveal trailer below:

God Save Birmingham will be available to play at Booth 817 at PAX West from 29 August to 1 September.

To keep up to date with everything God Save Birmingham, players can head over to X and wishlist God Save Birmingham on Steam.

An Ancient Horror Begins Its Conquest of the Marvel Universe in Infernal Hulk

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

Book News, Comics News, Geek News, News

Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein’s INCREDIBLE HULK has reawakened monsters and reignited horror storytelling across the Marvel Universe! This November, they’ll launch INFERNAL HULK, a monstrous new chapter following their bold run that debuts the most terrifying Hulk in comic book history!

Teased yesterday, INFERNAL HULK picks up after Hulk’s epic rematch with the Eldest, the powerful firstborn of the Mother of Horrors, in October’s Incredible Hulk #30. The Eldest’s long-seeded plan comes to fruition as it uses the power of the Strongest There Is to usher in a new AGE OF MONSTERS, unleashing a dark destiny for the entire Marvel Universe and declaring war for its very soul!

INCREDIBLE…IMMORTAL…INFERNAL!

The evil known as Eldest has literally torn Bruce Banner and the Hulk apart and taken the Hulk’s body as their own. This new, unstoppable Infernal Hulk is ten times the monster that everyone always feared Hulk would be. Their diabolical plan is to plunge the world back into ancient horrors by transforming our heroes into nightmarish beasts! Meanwhile, the indomitable Bruce Banner, though powerless, will stop at nothing to thwart their evil schemes!

“I’ve been promising Hulk fans the biggest, boldest status quo change in Hulk’s history, and that time is finally here,” Johnson said. “The next few issues of Incredible Hulk give fans all the answers they’ve been waiting for about Eldest and the Mother of Horrors, and INFERNAL HULK is the beginning of a terrifying new normal, not just for the Hulk series but for the entire Marvel Universe.”

“Working on Hulk whether it be ‘Incredible’ and now ‘Infernal’ with Phillip has been a dream,” Klein said. “Phillip is not only an amazing world builder and craftsman who pours so much heart into this book, but he has also become a great friend and fantastic collaborator throughout this. INFERNAL HULK is where the journey was always going to go all along, and I’m excited to see reader’s reactions to it. I know I’m putting a lot of blood, sweat, ad tears into it, as always.”

On what to expect in this new era, Johnson explains, “There are monsters way worse and more powerful than anything we’ve seen so far, bigger and stronger than Hulk with origins that go back to the foundations of the Earth. It’s time to take this story to the next level, and no corner of the Marvel Universe will be left untouched before the end.”

Check out the main cover and preorder INFERNAL HULK #1 at your local comic shop today! For more information, visit Marvel.com.

Toplitz Productions Unveils Gamescom Showreel

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Trailers / Videos

Ahead of the official opening of gamescom 2025 in Cologne, German publisher Toplitz Productions has unveiled its official showreel, spotlighting a diverse lineup set to thrill gamers well into 2025 and beyond.

With game presentations and hands-on options available to content creators, media and editors in Hall 4.1 Booth D-038g – C-029g, the showreel previews the eclectic selection of exciting titles spanning a wide variety of genres. Headlining the lineup are the frosty survival adventure Permafrost and the dark and sinister open-world action adventure Vampires: Bloodlord Rising. But visitors can also sample a gameplay sneak peek into the much anticipated Vikings Dynasty or experience the survival infused city builder Aztecs: The Last Sun.

With appearances of the fan favorites Medieval Dynasty and Sengoku Dynasty, which is celebrating its release on consoles during gamescom on August 21st as well as Wild West Pioneers waiting in the wings, the gamescom lineup from Toplitz Productions is stacked from top to bottom. We can’t wait to show you what we have in store in 2025 and beyond. And in case you are in Cologne this year and have a few spare minutes: Feel free to drop by and talk about games!

MicroProse to Publish Better Than Dead

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Windows PC News

MicroProse today announced it will publish Better Than Dead, a brutal bodycam-style first-person shooter set in the streets of Hong Kong. Players take on the role of a once-enslaved woman, beaten down and powerless — until rage becomes her only strength. Armed with a pistol, a kill list, and a bodycam to document every second of her payback, she’s not running anymore.

In Better Than Dead, you’re not just surviving — you’re retaliating. Once held captive and humiliated on film by those who broke her, the protagonist now turns the camera on them. One by one, they’ll fall. Every mission is a ruthless, high-stakes raid through the underbelly of Hong Kong. No remorse. No hesitation. Only vengeance.

Key Features

Bodycam revenge shooter – Film every step, every shot, every execution. You are the hunter now.

Raw, instant gunplay – Blink and you’re dead. Speed and precision are your only allies.

Photorealistic Hong Kong – Fight through restaurants, seedy nightclubs, rooftop dens, and dark alleyways.

Tight, linear levels – No filler. Just targets, blood, and retribution.

Cinematic action style – Heavily inspired by gritty Hong Kong action cinema of the ’80s and ’90s.

Habbo Celebrates 25 Years

2025/08/15

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

The wait is over! Habbo, one of the original online social virtual worlds, is officially celebrating its 25th Anniversary, and the month-long #Habbo25 event is live now across all Hotels. Packed with nostalgic throwbacks, brand-new features, creator collaborations, and exclusive giveaways, this is one anniversary party you don’t want to miss.

Since launching in 2000, Habbo has defined a generation of online social interaction — from pixel art furniture and epic room designs to legendary quests and iconic community moments. Now, 25 years later, Habbo continues to blend its nostalgic charm with fresh updates and fan-favorite events for millions of players worldwide.

Here’s what’s waiting for you in the #Habbo25 event:

The Return of Recycling – Furni-Matic Is Back: Exchange old or unwanted items for a chance at rare, new rewards — including ultra-rare drops. Plus, try the all-new Collecti-Matic for collectible-specific exchanges.
Brand-New Player-Made Public Room: Pool Party, Day & Night — a summer escape that transitions between day and night using advanced in-game “Wired” logic.
First-Ever Animated Clothing Items: Rock the new animated wearables, including the eye-catching floating balloon hat.
Iconic Item Releases: The Black Throne returns in a bold new colorway, plus classics like the Ducky Vending Machine and Silver 25 Balloons with hidden surprises.
Exclusive Anniversary Crowns: Special crowns for 15, 20, and 25-year account holders to honor long-time Habbos.
Giveaway-Only Anniversary Items: Win highly sought-after anniversary exclusives through TikTok, X, and Instagram creator giveaways.
Global Staff-Hosted Live Events: Join official Habbo birthday parties hosted across all nine Hotels, from the US to Turkey.
Classic Games + New Quests: Play beloved mini-games from Habbo’s past, now with new quests and exclusive rewards.

The celebration is happening right now so log in, decorate, party with friends, and be part of Habbo history. Whether you’ve been here since the pixelated early days or you’re joining the Hotel for the first time, #Habbo25 is your chance to experience the best of the past and present

PowerWash Simulator 2 Price Reveal Trailer

2025/08/14

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, PlayStation 5 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox Series X News

FuturLab is pleased to confirm that PowerWash Simulator 2 will launch at $24.99 / €24.99 / £19.99, the same price as the original game. Regional pricing is also under review and will match or be lower in several territories at launch. A new trailer has dropped today to mark the announcement.

Launching in late 2025, PowerWash Simulator 2 is a standalone sequel, launching with a 38-level Career Mode and a suite of upgrades: split-screen co-op, 4-player online campaign, improved visuals, new traversal mechanics (abseiling, scissor lift and more), expanded equipment (including a surface cleaner and new attachments), and a customisable Home Base – complete with pettable cats.

FuturLab acknowledges that in the current cost-of-living climate, players often have limited budgets for games and entertainment. For many, PowerWash Simulator is more than just a game, it’s a wellbeing tool, a way to decompress and reclaim a moment of calm. The team is keen to keep that experience within reach.

The studio also recognises the game’s place in many players’ libraries as a comforting, complementary title, one that supports a broader gaming lifestyle without demanding exclusivity. That approach continues with the sequel.

The choice to stick with the original price comes from a place of genuine appreciation. The team has been genuinely moved by the response to the original game and its DLC packs, and the hope is that continued support into the sequel will allow them to keep this accessible price point locked in at launch, with no plans to raise it.

“We’re in a fortunate position because of the success of PowerWash Simulator and its passionate community to keep the price of our sequel as accessible as possible. There are so many personal anecdotes of how the game has helped our players that we wanted to ensure we could continue to widely offer the experience at a competitive price point,” said Chris Mehers, Chief Operating Officer at FuturLab.

As with the original game, a steady stream of post-launch support is planned for PowerWash Simulator 2. A full roadmap is already in the works, including free updates and licensed content, with more to come well into 2026. While the team isn’t ready to reveal details just yet, fans can expect new additions in the months following launch.

PowerWash Simulator 2 is currently in development for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.