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Game Review: Wales Interactive Releases Spooky ‘The Shapeshifting Detective’

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The Shapeshifting Detective, a brand new full motion video game from D’Avekki Studios Limited and distributed by Wales Interactive, is available today, and it’s perfect for gamers who love a good mystery.

Set in a small village, you step into the shoes of a detective named Sam who has the uncanny ability to shapeshift into other human beings. It seems a passionate young cellist by the name of Dorota Shaw has been murdered, and the local police have requested your services in ferreting out the killer.

Even setting aside Sam’s shapeshifting abilities, the murder and the circumstances surrounding it are certainly strange. It was predicted, you see, by three tarot readers working with a mysterious Mercury deck which, they explain, asks its own questions and then provides answers for them when they read together.

Your job is to set about interrogating each of the suspects tied to Dorota and to capture her murderer before he or she can kill again.

I loved this game! I love a good mystery to begin with but when you add the sneaky nature of slipping into someone else’s identity and speaking to their friends as a confidant to try to gather information, you’ve hit pure gold.

Director Tim Cowles who co-wrote the game with Lynda Cowles assembled a talented cast of actors to play the various suspects in a game comprised of over 1600 HD videos.

Aislinn De’Ath, who previously appeared in the Cowles’ The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, is perfection as the gossipy Violet Gallacher, who owns the guesthouse in which the tarot readers are staying and will drop a hint or two when asked just the right question at just the right time.

Anarosa De Eizaguirre Butler, Olivia Noyce, and Nicholas Pople, are all quite good as the tarot reading psychics, as well. The talented Butler in particular, with her soulful eyes and whiskey voice, has a quality about her that reminded me of Olivia Hussey.

Anarosa De Eizaguirre Butler as Bronwyn in The Shapeshifting Detective from Wales Interactive

Interrogation and impersonation aren’t the only source of clues from the talented game developers. Throughout the game a radio is playing in the guesthouse that offers insights into the story, and when you “hail a cab” to travel to a different location, the taxi’s radio offers interesting tidbits as well, giving the game a much more immersive feel as it progresses.

This is not an action packed game, however. As I said previously, it’s a game of questions and answers, but to keep things interesting a different murderer is chosen at random at the beginning of each game.

The fact that everyone you meet is a suspect and anyone could be the murderer makes the game worth playing through multiple times.

The Shapeshifting Detective is available today on Steam, PS4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch. Check out the trailer below!

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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.

First Look Image at Terminator: Survivors (2024)
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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