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Two teenage girls each win enormous payout after they were trapped upside down on malfunctioning fairground ride for 25 minutes
A Portland jury has awarded two teenage girls a combined $550,000 (£275,000 each) after they were left trapped upside down for 25 minutes on a malfunctioning fairground ride. Xitlali Gomez-Salais and Evie Yannotta, both now 16, had sued Oaks Amusement Park and ride distributor Zamperla Inc. for $2 million, alleging psychological and physical trauma from…
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2026’s Best Horror Game Isn’t Even A Horror Game
By almost every account, playing Big Walk with your friends is a charming, sweet, and borderline magical experience. It’s a game about exploring, communicating, and collaborating, and it eschews traditional systems familiar in other games. For example, there is nothing in this open-world puzzle-adventure game designed to harm you–no health bars, stamina meters, or any…
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Dennis Haysbert & Ashley Greene Among Seven Final Additions To Indie Horror Film ‘Deify’
The horror film “Deify” has added seven principal cast members, including Dennis Haysbert and Ashley Greene, joining previously announced stars Neal McDonough and Skeet Ulrich. The indie psychological horror project, from filmmaker brothers Carmelo and Nicholas Chimera, is currently shooting in Chicago and follows a cult leader put on trial after his followers are burned…
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Claire Cronin Announces New Album The Bruise: Hear “Black Water”
American singer-songwriter and author Claire Cronin has announced her new album, The Bruise, due out on 9 October via Ordinal Records/A Moth Object. It marks her first LP since 2021’s Bloodless and continues her uneasy, folk-inflected style drawing on doom metal and drone influences. The record was made largely at home in Berkeley with her…
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Casper Kelly’s Horror Movie Buddy Is Getting a Retro Game Boy Color Game
Casper Kelly’s upcoming mascot horror movie Buddy is getting an authentic Game Boy Color video game tie-in later this year.
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The Duskbloods Is Inspired By One Of Tabletop Gaming’s Most Famous Vampire RPGs
From Software has been an industry trendsetter with its souls-like games over the years, but what inspires the studio when it crafts new experiences like The Duskbloods? The brief amounts of gameplay we’ve seen so far certainly suggest it includes plenty of From Software DNA, with its elegant art direction and hard-hitting action, and game…
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The Duskbloods Has Some George R.R. Martin In Its Blood
From Software’s next game, The Duskbloods, is inspired by both vampire literature and tabletop games. But another key figure that the studio looked to for motivation was legendary Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin. That’s not too surprising, given Martin’s involvement with the studio’s smash-hit game Elden Ring, and while he may not have…
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Hidetaka Miyazaki On The Duskbloods: “Maybe PvPvE Wasn’t The Best Way To Refer To It”
From Software’s vampire-inspired multiplayer game The Duskbloods is difficult to quantify. Though it was billed as a “PvPvE game” when it was first announced, Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of From Software and legendary game director behind Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring, now thinks that label might be “a bit confusing.” The Duskbloods’ moment-to-moment gameplay may…
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Netflix’s ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Trailer Teases Ella Beatty, Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall in Bloody Tale of Infamous Axe Murders
Netflix has released the full trailer for “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” the fourth season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series, confirming the show’s cast and central themes. Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden, the woman tried and acquitted over the notorious 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall…