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‘The Last of Us’ Animator Tal Peleg Releases ‘Dante’s Redemption: Act 1’

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Released by Visceral Games (closed as of October 2017), best known for the Dead Space series, their game  Dante’s Inferno is an action-oriented take on the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, detailing Dante as a guilt-ridden Crusader who slaughters the Grim Reaper to escape death, return home, and save his wife from Lucifer’s clutches. The game has you eviscerate your way through the eight circles of Hell, featuring some of the vilest, grotesque, and amazing monster designs in any action and horror game to date, especially Cerberus the Gluttonous worm.

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The game received adequate to warm appraise from critics but was solidified in gaming history more as a cult classic. It’s not objectively certain whether this had to do with a reliance of some previous knowledge on the Divine Comedy or the obvious uninspired influence from God of War‘s combat prompts and mechanics; however, the title gained enough traction to obtain an anime film, Dante voiced by Castlevania’s Dracula himself, Graham McTavish. Although, one animator wanted to make his own tribute to the hyper-violent hack and slash game, and just released it to his YouTube channel.

Tal Peleg, known for his animation work on Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, The Last of Us, and his work on Mass Effect: Andromeda, unveiled his long-awaited fan project for Dante’s Inferno that’s been roughly 4 years in the making: Dante’s Redemption Act I. The production quality for this first act is something else entirely, especially since the action scenes flow superbly while illustrating Peleg’s admiration and desire to recreate Dante’s Inferno‘s strongest asset: the combat.

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Image via Tal Peleg’s YouTube

Even if the game emulated similar mechanics from the God of War series, it was still able to build on the template and construct both a combat and leveling system fitting to the theme and design of Dante’s Inferno. Peleg’s animation follows up from his previous short’s plot, continuing the story based around Dante’s killing spree through Hell to rescue Beatrice.

The video is posted below, but you should absolutely go subscribe, like the video, and keep an eye out for Act II. Make sure you watch until the very end because you will not be expecting what Dante comes across (or I should say WHO Dante comes across).

Speaking of Hell, demons, Castlevania/Graham McTavish, and Dante, Devil May Cry has been confirmed to receive an animated adaptation by non-other than Castlevania‘s showrunner Ari Shankar. You can check out further details in our article, and make sure you tell us what you think of the Dante’s Inferno animation along with thoughts on the Devil May Cry animated series announcement!

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‘Immaculate’ Stars Reveal Which Horror Villains They Would “F, Marry, Kill”

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Sydney Sweeney is just coming off the success of her rom-com Anyone But You, but she’s ditching the love story for a horror story in her latest film Immaculate.

Sweeney is taking Hollywood by storm, portraying everything from a love-lusting teenager in Euphoria to an accidental superhero in Madame Web. Although the latter got a lot of hate among theater-goers, Immaculate is getting the polar opposite.

The film was screened at SXSW this past week and was well-received. It also gained a reputation for being extremely gory. Derek Smith of Slant says the, “final act contains some of the most twisted, gory violence this particular subgenre of horror has seen in years…”

Thankfully curious horror movie fans won’t have to wait long to see for themselves what Smith is talking about as Immaculate will hit theaters across the United States on March, 22.

Bloody Disgusting says that the movie’s distributor NEON, in a bit of marketing smarts, had stars Sydney Sweeney and Simona Tabasco play a game of “F, Marry, Kill” in which all their choices had to be horror movie villains.

It’s an interesting question, and you might be surprised at their answers. So colorful are their responses that YouTube slapped an age-restricted rating on the video.

Immaculate is a religious horror movie that NEON says stars Sweeney, “as Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith, embarking on a new journey in a remote convent in the picturesque Italian countryside. Cecilia’s warm welcome quickly devolves into a nightmare as it becomes clear her new home harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.”

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‘Terminator: Survivors’: Open World Survival Game Releases Trailer And Is Launching This Fall

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This is a game that many gamers will be excited for. It was announced at the Nacon Connect 2024 Event that Terminator: Survivors will be launching early access for PC via Steam on October 24th of this year. It will launch fully on a later date for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Check out the trailer and more about the game below.

Official Trailer for Terminator: Survivors

IGN states, “In this original story taking place after the first two Terminator films, you take control of a group of survivors of Judgment Day, in solo or co-op mode, faced with a multitude of lethal hazards in this post-apocalyptic world. But you’re not alone. Skynet’s machines will hound you relentlessly and rival human factions will fight for the same resources you desperately need.”

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In related news to the Terminator world, Linda Hamilton stated I’m done. I’m done. I have nothing more to say. The story’s been told, and it’s been done to death. Why anybody would relaunch it is a mystery to me. She claims she doesn’t want to play Sarah Connor anymore. You can check out more of what she said here.

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First Look Image at Terminator: Survivors (2024)

An open-world game about surviving against Skynet’s machines sounds like an interesting and fun game. Are you excited about this announcement and trailer release from Nacon? Let us know in the comments below. Also, check out this behind-the-scenes clip from the game below.

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New ‘Paranormal Activity’ Entry Isn’t a Movie, but “It’s Going to Be Intense” [Teaser Video]

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If you were expecting another Paranormal Activity sequel to be a feature film you’d be surprised. Maybe there will be one, but for now, Variety reports that DreadXP co-director and creative director Brian Clarke (DarkStone Digital) are creating a video game based on the series.

“We are thrilled to work with Paramount Game Studios and to have the opportunity to bring the world of ‘Paranormal Activity’ to gamers everywhere,” Epic Pictures CEO and DreadXP producer Patrick Ewald told Variety. “The films are steeped in rich lore and creative scares, and under the stewardship of creative director Brian Clarke, DreadXP’s ‘Paranormal Activity’ video game will honor those core tenets and offer horror fans one of our most terrifying games yet.” 

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Clarke, who worked on the horror video game The Mortuary Assistant said the Paranormal Activity franchise shows just how much reach a genre-specific title can accomplish, “If you thought ‘The Mortuary Assistant’ was scary, we’re taking what we learned during the development of that title and cranking it up with a more reactive and horrifying haunting system. It’s going to be intense!”

The new game is scheduled to be released in 2026.

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