Journalist, radio host and longtime horror aficionado Louise Blain goes to work at Blumhouse Video games, becoming a member of the fledging horror video games outfit as artistic lead, able that may see her figuring out alternatives for Blumhouse Video games, but in addition vetting potential companions.
Blumhouse Video games was launched again in February as a part of the multimedia firm Blumhouse, with Zach Wooden as its president and Don Sechler as its chief monetary officer. The subsidiary has a specific concentrate on horror video games (throughout PC, consoles and cellular). As Bloody Disgusting reported on the time, Blumhouse Video games goals to focus on horror video games with indie budgets (lower than $10 million).
“By my time within the trade, I’ve had the great fortune of working carefully with builders to deliver their concepts to life,” Wooden wrote in a press release in February. “There’s a novel alternative for horror and style within the indie recreation area, and I’m thrilled about teaming up with Blumhouse to meaningfully leverage the corporate’s model, status, and artistic expertise.”
It is a sensible purpose – horror video games have a status for being cheaper to create as they typically do not require quite a lot of costly property or quite a lot of sophisticated mechanics. A scare, very similar to within the manufacturing of horror films that are equally low cost to make, does not have a greenback worth hooked up.
Louise Blain (above) is finest identified for her work on GamesRadar+, NME and the BBC
Which is sweet as a result of Blumhouse already know how one can terrify folks. Blumhouse Productions is finest identified for producing horror films akin to The Purge, M3GAN and Paranormal Exercise. Blumhouse can also be producing the 5 Nights at Freddy’s film adaptation starring Josh Hutcherson, which is about to launch in cinemas subsequent month.
Blain has collected quite a few bylines over time, at publications together with GamesRadar+, TechRadar, PC Gamer, NME and The Guardian. She additionally serves as the author and presenter of BBC Radio 3’s Sound of Gaming, and has been consulting on a number of horror video games earlier than her work with Blumhouse.
Whereas Blumhouse does have a wedge of horror properties – and this author particularly would love the thought of a The Purge recreation – the acknowledged plan again when the gaming imprint launched in February was for the corporate to pursue unique properties inside video video games. Let’s have a look at what occurs subsequent.
Disclaimer: not solely was Louise Blain a long-term worker of our sister website GamesRadar+ and an everyday contributor to this very web site, she’s additionally a detailed pal of this author and has influenced him to look at much more horror films than he ought to really be watching.
In the event you’re a fan of scary video games, make sure you try our record of the very finest horror video games to play proper now. For a bit extra selection, you may as well learn our roundup of the finest indie video games.
