Tag: Supermassive Games
News Directive 8020 Is the Next Dark Pictures Horror from Supermassive Games, Coming to PS5
Sci-fi so good
The Dark Pictures Anthology continues with Directive 8020 from Supermassive Games. Taking the studio's penchant for horror into the realm of sci-fi, the game's announcement trailer can be viewed above. The trailer introduces us to an optimistic young cosmonaut ready for adventure (played by Lashana Lynch), before hard cutting to a...
News Tony Pankhurst, The Curator of The Dark Pictures Anthology, Has Passed Away
Face of Supermassive's series was aged 67
Tony Pankhurst, the UK actor perhaps best known for lending his likeness to The Curator in Supermassive Games' The Dark Pictures Anthology, has passed away. Spotted by GameSpot, Supermassive posted a short tribute to the actor on X. The actor had a career spanning over 40 years, working as a radio...
News Layoffs Hit Until Dawn, Dark Pictures Dev Supermassive Games, 90 People Affected
Enters a "period of consultation"
Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology team Supermassive Games will be laying off 90 workers in the near future, it's been confirmed. The studio employs more than 300 people in Guildford, UK, and has informed 150 of them that they are "at risk" of being the 90 people who will soon lose their job. The developer...
News Supermassive Games Unveiling Single-Player Dead by Daylight Game at The Game Awards
Something wicked this way comes
Horror fans have something interesting confirmed to be at The Games Awards, as it's been announced that an interactive single-player game set in the expansive Dead by Daylight universe and developed by Supermassive Games (of Until Dawn and The Quarry fame) will be revealed during the show. Over on
News Improved PSVR2 Rails Shooter The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Adds Horde Mode
Free update available now
The dramatically improved PSVR2 rails shooter The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR – which was a dismal experience on day one – has quietly added a Horde Mode in a free post-release update. The press release teases: “New horde mode! Will you survive the rooms of doom?” It adds: “On this s
News PSVR2 Rails Shooter Switchback VR Dramatically Overhauls Visuals with 8GB PS5 Patch
Fans report a dramatic upgrade
Despite being billed as a spiritual successor to Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, rails shooter The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR was dismally disappointing at launch. While its gameplay was tired, it also looked surprisingly bad: low resolution and blurry, with bad textures across the board. Honestly, it didn’t feel like...
News PSVR2 Horror The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Getting Major Update This Week
Foveated rendering and graphical improvements incoming
The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR was a hugely disappointing spiritual successor to rails shooter Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, and one we described as “scruffy” in our dismal 4/10 review. Supermassive Games had promised to improve the
News Until Dawn Dev Making Single Player Adaptation of PS5, PS4's Dead by Daylight
Iron Maiden, Slipknot crossover content on the way
The ever-busy Supermassive Games has been signed up to adapt asymmetrical multiplayer hit Dead by Daylight into a single player story-driven game. The spin-off project, which is still in the early stages of development, remains underwraps for now – but developer Behaviour announced the title as...
News Switchback VR Developer Investigating Game's Iffy PSVR2 Visuals
Horrific
The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is a huge disappointment, as illustrated in our review – and one of its biggest issues is just how blurry it looks. While the game has been developed exclusively for PSVR2, it barely looks like a step-up from PSVR, with muddy, middling visuals and even the odd performance hiccup. It’s not the only...
Review The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR (PSVR2) - Lousy Rails Shooter Is a Supermassive Shame
Ride it out
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, a rails shooter with a rollercoaster theme, was one of the surprise highlights of PSVR’s catalogue, so there was understandable enthusiasm surrounding the announcement of Supermassive’s spiritual successor, The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR. Unfortunately, this is a dour shadow of a follow-up, let-down by...
Hands On The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Is Massively Underwhelming So Far
House of horrors
At what point do we consider Until Dawn a curse? UK developer Supermassive has been trying to better the PS4 narrative horror for the best part of a decade, with both its ongoing The Dark Pictures anthology and standalone The Quarry coming up short. Now, based on the first half of our playthrough, we’re sad to report that the...
News The Jump Scares May Be the Hardest Part of Switchback VR's Platinum
Scared to death
The Trophy list is out for rails shooter Until Dawn: Rush of Blood’s spiritual successor, The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR. Just browsing the trinkets, it looks like you’ll be well on your way to the Platinum purely by beating the campaign. There are then collectibles in the form of “marked gargoyles”, which you’ll need to...
News Switchback VR Is a Great Reason to Play PSVR2 After Launch
In depth gameplay walkthrough revealed
There's a big list of PSVR2 launch titles and PS5 updates for early adopters of the VR headset to play on launch day, and you can see them all in our All PSVR2 Launch Games guide. But what's there to look out for after 22nd February 2023? While Sony hasn't really revealed much beyond the launch window, there's...
News PSVR2's Switchback VR Adds Ghastly Bobble Heads to Rollercoaster Ride
Bubble, bobble
The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR, developer Supermassive Games’ spiritual PSVR2 successor to the very enjoyable PSVR rails shooter Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, will include ghastly bobble heads for you to place in your roller coaster of misery. Pre-order bonuses for the game, due out on 16th March, include a skull bobble head, as well...
News Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Now Out in March, Misses PSVR2 Launch
Pushed back by a few weeks
Supermassive Games has made the decision to delay The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR out of its original release date of 22nd February 2023 alongside the PSVR2. Instead, it'll now arrive a few weeks later on 16th March 2023. The studio says the delay is so the virtual reality title can receive further polish in the lead-up...
News PSVR2 Gets The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR on Launch Day
Costs £32.99/$39.99
The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR has been announced as another PSVR2 launch game after its new PS Store listing revealed a release date of 22nd February 2023. The title costs £32.99/$39.99, and pre-ordering nets you goodies such as a golden gun and a bobblehead for your cart. It joins the likes of
News The Dark Pictures Brings a Fresh Rush of Blood to PSVR2
Will you play Until Dawn?
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, with its on-rails ghost house horror, was one of the surprise stories of PSVR – and it’s getting a spiritual successor, in the form of The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR for PSVR2. This is following closely in the trembling footsteps of its predecessor, sending you on a thrill-ride through some...
News Supermassive Games' Next Title in Development, Could Stray from Teen Horror Genre
Adult horror? Horror for kids?
The next game from Until Dawn and The Quarry developer Supermassive is currently in development, has a tentative release window of 2025 or 2026, and will be equivalent in size to previous games. Intriguingly, it may also depart from the well-worn realm of teen horror. In an interview with VGC, studio director Will...
News Until Dawn, The Quarry Dev Acquired by Nordisk Games
Offers security and chance to grow
Supermassive Games, the developer of horror titles like Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has been acquired by Nordisk Games. The publisher took out a 30.7 per cent stake in the company last year, but has upped it now to a full 100 per cent. This is all being done "to increase our support to...
News Unbelievably, Narrative Horror The Quarry Will Have 186 Endings on PS5, PS4
You read that right
We sincerely hope there’s not a Trophy for seeing all of the endings in upcoming teen horror The Quarry, because there’s a whopping 186 of them. No, that’s not a typo: one-hundred-and-eighty-six. The developer Supermassive Games explained in an interview with IGN just how it managed to cram so many conclusions into the...
News The Quarry Could Be the Next Game from Until Dawn Dev
Potentially published by 2K Games
A trademark for a new title named The Quarry, created by Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games, has been spotted online. The documentation is light on details, but includes the above logo and covers “games software”. This appears to be separate from The Dark Pictures Anthology, which is published by Banda
News Until Dawn Dev Supermassive Has Been 'Having Discussions' About PS5's DualSense Controller
Haptic horror
We know you're probably tired of hearing about PlayStation 5's recently unveiled DualSense controller, but it's the biggest next-gen news Sony's given us so far. We think the new pad looks and sounds excellent, and Bethesda's Pete Hines seems infatuated with it too. Elsewhere, it seems developers are starting to imagine ways to utilise...
News House of Ashes Trademarked by Until Dawn Dev Supermassive Games
Is it another Dark Pictures game?
Supermassive Games found success this generation with the release of its narrative horror title, Until Dawn. The well liked PlayStation 4 exclusive featured lots of Quantic Dream-esque branching pathways, leading to multiple different endings depending on who you managed to keep alive in the mountainside cabin...
News Until Dawn Maker Trademarks Shattered State
Supermassive lining up Gamescom reveal?
Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games has trademarked a title called Shattered State, and with Gamescom 2018 right around the corner, we’d bank on some kind of reveal coinciding with the Cologne-based convention next week. Interestingly, the Guildford-based studio filed the trademark itself, suggesting...
News Is an Until Dawn Sequel Unlikely Now?
Supermassive Games eyeing multiformat move
We'd always assumed, following the surprise commercial success of Until Dawn, that Sony would have signed up a sequel straight away – but it sounds like developer Supermassive Games has other plans. Despite being one of the Japanese giant's closer partners, the developer has expressed interest in breaking...
News Cupid's Baying for Blood in PS4 Exclusive Until Dawn
Fright night
Roses are red, violets are blue; Until Dawn will whisk you away to a cabin in the woods – but there'll be no time to get nude. That's the theme of this brand new trailer for Supermassive Games' forthcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive at least, as romantic tension paves the way for straight-up tension. "As you may know by now, [the game]...
News How Does PS4 Exclusive Until Dawn Plan to Scare You Senseless?
Terrifying tricks
We know that PlayStation 4 exclusive Until Dawn is supposed to scare us just as much as it makes us laugh, but how does developer Supermassive Games plan to pull off this trick? Well, for a start, it's hired some truly talented horror writers. "We have Larry Fassenden and Graham Reznick as our script writers,” Supermassive...
Feature Until Dawn's PS4 Re-Reveal Looms, Here's Everything We Know
Player beware
As a member of the microscopic group that earnestly enjoyed their time with the ill-fated PlayStation Move peripheral, this editor was extremely excited for Until Dawn when it was announced at GamesCom 2012 a couple of years ago. Previous titles like Sports Champions and Tumble had proven that Sony’s motion controller was at its best...
News Until Dawn Staying Zipped Up Until the New Year
Keeping the chill out
Supermassive Games’ frustratingly frigid PlayStation 3 exclusive Until Dawn is set to keep covered up until the New Year, studio gaffer Pete Samuels has announced. There were rumours – yet again – earlier this week that the PlayStation Move powered title had been cancelled, but apparently that’s absolutely not the case...
News Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Drops Onto PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita In March
We're not sure what we were expecting from Supermassive Games' upcoming Doctor Who video game tie-in, but it certainly wasn't a sidescroller
Still, that's exactly what appears to be on show in this first trailer for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. The gameplay looks a lot like Ubisoft's recent TinTin movie tie-in, if you're familiar with that. We...
News Get Your First Glimpse Of Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock For PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
Embedded above is your first glimpse of Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, the Supermassive Games developed video game tie-in due out on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita later in the year
The screenshot doesn't confirm much in isolation — other than that, yes, that does appear to be the current doctor, Matt Smith — but we daresay fans will be...
News Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock To Be Ready In Time For PlayStation Vita's Launch
Why not add another title to the mix, huh? MCV is reporting that the recently announced Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock will be ready in time for the PlayStation Vita's hardware launch
The Supermassive Games developed title features Matt Smith as The Doctor and Alex Kingston as River Song. The game's also due out on PlayStation 3. It's unclear...
News BBC Confirms Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock For PlayStation 3, PS Vita
We know its considered a mortal sin to be British and not like Doctor Who, but it's a plight we embrace every day
For years we've been curious about the popularity of Doctor Who — particularly overseas — but its something we accept that we'll never understand. Unsurprisingly, we're not particularly enamoured with the idea of the ol' Doc making...
News Start the Party, Drink Your Drink, Save the World
Just a normal night in for us
Having released Start the Party to mixed reviews, Supermassive Games has higher hopes for its sequel: it reckons it might be able to save our planet. Start the Party: Save the World was officially announced at Gamescom last week, and we have the first trailer below showing more of the augmented reality motion controlled...
GamesCom 2011 PlayStation Move Mind Benders Bundles Sony's Best Motion Controlled Puzzle Titles
Secretly announced during last night's GamesCom press conference, Sony has released the first trailer for Move Mind Benders, a reail compilation including PlayStation Move's best puzzle titles
The package includes Tumble, Echochrome II and Lemmings. Interestingly, Lemmings doesn't currently support the PlayStation Move, but the trailer clearly shows...
GamesCom 2011 Sony Announces Start The Party: Save The World
Move Fitness wasn't the only new PlayStation Move software announcement Sony made during its GamesCom press conference last night
The platform holder also announced a follow-up to the surprisingly fun four-player augmented reality mini-game compilation, Start The Party. Start The Party: Save The World looks like it's more of the same, with the...
Sony's dropped some fresh news about what we can expect from the LittleBigPlanet franchise this Christmas
Honestly, a whole lot. Sony will be sending out fresh beta invites and a story demo for LittleBigPlanet 2 from next month, as well as releasing a stand-alone PlayStation Move experience entitled Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves. Sackboy's Prehistoric...
News Potential PlayStation Move Sackboy Spin-Off Is Rated By Australian Board
What's "Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves"? The game's certainly new to us, but it's been rated by the Australian Classification Board
Siliconera, who picked up the rating, note that the name suggests this could be some kind of PlayStation Move spin-off title. Seeing as Supermassive Games (the studio behind Tumble and Start The Party) are listed as the...
News Tumble Developer Claims Move is "Too Precise"
Had to dial down the detail for blocky tumbler
We know Move is good: under the right conditions it's capable of stunning precision, as these tech demos prove. Supermassive Games, the team behind upcoming brick-stacker Tumbler, claims the controller is a bit too precise, as it had to smooth out some control kinks to get the game up to par. The amount...
News Tumble Appears To Be Another Under-Rated Gem In PlayStation Move's Launch Line-Up
We recently posted about Echochrome II - the PlayStation Move controlled shadow-manipulation puzzle title - not getting the attention it deserved
Seems we've been skipping over Tumble too. Set to release on the PlayStation Network day-and-date with the Move controller, Tumble's a physics-led puzzle title which has you using the PlayStation Move to...
News We Don't Care What Anyone Says, Move Party Looks Awesome
"Bu-bu-but Move Party actually looks fun and it takes a simplistic approach to its gameplay
Who cares? Supermassive's Move Party looks like a ton of fun. Will it keep players hooked for extended periods? The jury is out on that. But does it look like an interesting, technically impressive and, most of all, fun augmented reality experience? Yes it...
