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Salix Games and Liquid Crimson to host spooky tabletop RPG stream for SpecialEffect

by admin September 20, 2025

UK studio Salix Games and creative agency Liquid Crimson are teaming up for Overdue Exorcism, a one-night-only, live table RPG performance to support charity SpecialEffect.

Taking place on October 3, 2025, the Overdue Exorcism charity stream will be guided by game master Natalie Walker, who voiced Nambi Ghimi in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Alice Blague in Astrologaster.

Winter will be joined by a host of acclaimed voice actors, including Billie Fulford-Brown (Sophie in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33), Dave Jones (Halsin in Baldur’s Gate 3), Kathyrn Vinclaire (who provided voice work for Conan Exiles and Warhammer Soul Arena), and Kit Harrison (Sawada in Genshin Impact). There will also be special guest cameos.

The strean has a £10,000 fundraising goal, and you can watch it on SpecialEffect’s Twitch channel from 6pm to 10pm BST on October 3, 2025.

Those who tune in will be able to unlock fundraising milestones that “force the cast into wild accents, musical interludes and full-blown possession swaps.”

There will also be viewer-triggered perks that let fans “inflict chilli-chocolate roulette, demand dance-offs or make their favourite actor read romantic or horror poetry in-character, straight to camera.”

“We’re not here to play it safe – we’re here to summon ghosts, break rules and blow the doors off tabletop streaming,” said Lauran Carter, comms director at Liquid Crimson.

“It’s theatre meets games meets rock show – and it’s all for SpecialEffect!”

The charity stream is part of SpecialEffect’s One Special Day initiative | Image credit: Liquid Crimson/Salix Games

The Overdue Exorcism stream is part of Special Effect’s One Special Day initiative, which aims to “level the playing field for physically disabled gamers.”

On the same day as the stream, SpecialEffect is hosting its One Special Walk fundraising event, which will see those who sign up walking 25km across Greater London, from the London Stadium all the way to Wembley.

The charity is also hosting a Steam sale, which runs from September 11, 2025, to September 18, 2025.

This is the ninth consecutive year SpecialEffect’s One Special Day has taken place, with last year’s initiative raising over £600,000.

“We couldn’t be more thankful for everyone who has put their time into this incredible stream, and we can’t wait to see what shenanigans take place on October 3 as part of One Special Day in support of our work!,” said Paige Harvey, gaming community manager at SpecialEffect.

“In our eyes, this event is already a natural 20!”

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September 20, 2025 0 comments

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Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, which is apparently the good one, is getting remade and coming to PC

by admin September 14, 2025

FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE Announcement Trailer – YouTube

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There’s one more bit of PC-relevant news to come out of Nintendo’s latest blunderbuss of Mario guff, following the Hades 2 release date and Danganronpa 2×2 announcement. It’s that Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly is getting a remake, and it’ll be available on PC next year.

“This title has undergone a complete overhaul,” the Steam page says, “with improvements to everything from visuals and audio to the core gameplay systems and controls. The signature Camera Obscura mechanic, used to capture and fend off spirits, remains a key feature, now offering richer and more engaging gameplay in both exploration and combat. In addition, the new ‘Holding Hands with Mayu’ mechanic adds a heartfelt touch, letting you experience the deep bond between the sisters like never before.”

While two later games in the series, Maiden of Black Water and Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, have made it to PC previously, this is the first time one of the well-received original trilogy will be officially represented on our platform of choice. It’s reportedly the scariest one in the whole series too.

Fatal Frame, known as Project Zero in some territories, is about ghosts who can be hurt by taking photos of them. Keeping them in focus while they’re trying to murder you, and taking shots at the precise moment they attack—the “fatal frame” of the title—provides the challenge. As does the fact you have to stare at creeps and spectres in first-person through your viewfinder the whole time.

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly is another 2026 release, though the trailer does end on “early 2026” so maybe we won’t have too long to wait.

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September 14, 2025 0 comments

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Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Announced

by admin September 13, 2025

Many regard 2003’s Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly as the best – and scariest – entry in the cult favorite Fatal Frame series, and players new and old can experience its scares thanks to a new remake coming next year.

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake is a modern overhaul of the terrifying journey of twin sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura, who explore a lost village, encountering supernatural horrors with only a mystical camera to defend themselves. It’s unclear what the exact improvements the remake will have beyond the obvious graphical facelift; we do know the game is being developed by Ninja Gaiden and Nioh masterminds, Team Ninja.

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake launches in early 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC.

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September 13, 2025 0 comments

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Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly is getting a PC remake, bringing its horror photography to Steam

by admin September 12, 2025

Smile and say AIEEEEE, horror fans! Tecmo and Team Ninja are bringing a “remake” of PS2 survival horror Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly to PC via Steam in early 2026. Why am I brandishing a glyph-covered Canon EOS 90D at you, while singing the Ghostbusters theme? Allow me to explain: Fatal Frame’s signature touch is that you defeat spooks using a magic camera. Naturally, this also means that you have to look steadily and calmly at said spooks while they shimmer and sway towards you. Catch some of that nonsense in the remake’s announcement trailer.

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I’ve only ever played one Fatal Frame game, 2005’s Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, in which you alternate between a relatively safe daytime apartment and a dream manor where the monsters are. I’m told that Crimson Butterfly is the best of the lot. It’s the story of twin sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura, who visit a stream one day to reminisce about their childhoods before the area is submerged by the construction of a dam.

Alas and alack, Mayu spots a nice red butterfly that lures her away to a “village of never-ending night”, home to a “forbidden ritual”. I had a similar thing happen to me while hiking along the Dales Way, once. The butterfly was a deceptively cheap Airbnb listing, the village was Kendal, and the forbidden ritual was all-night karaoke at the Olde Fleece Inn.

According to the Steam page, the Crimson Butterfly remake will be a “complete overhaul”, with “richer and more engaging gameplay in both exploration and combat”. In particular, you can expect a “Holding Hands with Mayu” mechanic that, presumably, lets you hold hands with Mayu. I really hope there’s more to this so-called remake’s “richer and more engaging gameplay” than simply letting major characters hold hands, Tecmo.

I enjoy the nerdiness of Fatal Frame’s photography mechanics. The camera can be upgraded with different lenses and types of film, and it’s not impossible that you might learn something about shot composition while you’re flashbulbing poltergeists. Given nerves of steel, you might find yourself demanding that the ghost go out and come in again, because dang it, this one could be worthy of the New Yorker. The ghost will not listen to you, of course, but don’t let that stop you yelling at your TV screen.

Two previous Fatal Frame games have made the leap to PC – Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. Our Mask of the Lunar Eclipse reviewer Kim Armstrong was not keen, commenting of the PC port, “while this unique combat may have carried the game’s lifeless story back in 2008, this rerelease is nothing more than an expensive reskin of a relic.”

We didn’t review Maiden of Black Water, possibly because it was so terrifying that Graham (RPS in peace) refused to assign it and instead threw it into a lake one dark and stormy evening. Or possibly because it was so boring that Graham (RPS in peace) refused to assign it and instead threw it into a lake one dark and stormy evening. He’s gone now, so it’s impossible to say for sure.

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September 12, 2025 0 comments

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Atomfall’s second expansion, The Red Strain, unleashes its crimson tendrils next month

by admin August 31, 2025

Dig your finest cricket bat out of the loft – Atomfall developers Rebellion have revealed its second story expansion is set to arrive in September. It’s dubbed The Red Strain, and looks to star a not-Robobrain who’s connected to a bunch of crimson plantlife filling the Cumberland quarantine zone.

This second DLC follows Wicked Isle, the first Atomfall expansion that you got automatically if you plumped for the deluxe edition of the radioactive pasty survivathon. I still need to go back and play that expansion, and this next add-on looks like an intriguing excuse to do so.

As announced by Rebellion’s fittingly brief blog post and trailer, The Red Strain will be released on September 16th. There’s precious little further info about it at the moment, but the devs have whispered that we can “expect a highly confidential new location and plenty more mysteries to uncover”.

As for the trailer, which you can watch below, it shows off what looks to be a plague of red plants linked to a human-brained robot that’s part of an organisation going by the acronym CORE. One would assume they’re different to, or possibly an offshoot of, the base game’s British Atomic Research Division (BARD). One thing’s for sure, we can expect more rooting through old facilities full of malfunctioning doodads and god knows what else. There’ll be more details forthcoming as the cerise exertion nears, or so Rebellion promise.

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Our James liked Atomfall, writing in his review:

It’s a shame that next to the investigating, Atomfall’s shooting, sneaking, and cricket batting don’t deliver the same joys. Still, they’re competent enough not to get in the way, and with a little finesse it’s possible to enjoy extended bouts of that rich, intricate sleuthing without doing a single violence at all. Don’t let those village pub bores get you down: there are far worse places for a forgetful soldier-detective to be.

I’d generally agree with all of that, even if I was maybe a bit more downbeat in my review of it for my old home, mainly because I felt its endings were a bit too on the muted side to be truly satsifying conclusions to all of the great intrigue built up as you wander the hostile sectors of the zone. To me, that robbed Atomfall of totally nailing the ideal short-but-deep experience Rebellion were going for, but it’s all a matter of perspective. Those more into Atomfall’s British sci-fi inspirations than they are keyed up by Fallout to expect more in-your-face radioactive wackiness might find these conclusions perfectly fine.

Either way, I definitely need to give Wicked Isle a go, so am making a point of sliding the game up the great backlog list. I’ve tattoed said list across my inner thigh, so that every time I have impure throughts, I’m reminded that I bought The Saboteur in a Steam sale ages ago and still have zero hours in it.

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August 31, 2025 0 comments