{"id":35636,"date":"2025-09-06T05:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2130141"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:45:44","slug":"this-is-an-opportunity-to-be-the-scariest-game-on-the-next-generation-of-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/this-is-an-opportunity-to-be-the-scariest-game-on-the-next-generation-of-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"&#147;This is an opportunity to be the scariest game on the next generation of hardware&#148;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/this-is-an-opportunity-to-be-the-scariest-game-on-the-next-generation-of-hardware.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was probably the stand-out reveal of this month&#8217;s Game Awards show; a first look at the kind of survival sci-fi horror so many of us have been pining for, from the same people that brought us video game&#8217;s defining sci-fi horror Dead Space. The Callisto Protocol, due in 2022 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S\/X and PC, is the debut of Striking Distance Studios, formed by Glen Schofield and other veterans of EA Redwood Shores\/Visceral Games &#8211; a project, fascinatingly, tied into the PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds universe, seeing as it also comes courtesy of the PUBG Corporation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m not sure how much I can even say about it,&#8221; Schofield tells us in the aftermath of the reveal. &#8220;But you know, there is a lore, and there is a big storyline that&#8217;s being written now. I&#8217;ve been wanting to do another sci-fi horror game. I mean, you know, I love doing sci fi and I love doing horror. I wanted to go back to exactly what I wanted to do. So I presented an idea to them &#8211; then we try and retrofit this storyline that they&#8217;ve been working on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story&#8217;s set in a distant future on Callisto, Jupiter&#8217;s second largest moon, and equal in size to a planet like Mercury &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s a good size moon!&#8221; says Glen &#8211; and is confirmed to be third person and single player. Beyond that? There&#8217;s not much more information on offer, partly through a desire from Striking Distance to keep its cards close to its chest, and partly because as a project it&#8217;s still early days. What we can glean, though, is the direction Glen and his team &#8211; some 25 of which hail back to the Dead Space days &#8211; will be taking The Callisto Protocol, and indeed the survival horror genre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-12-22-this-is-an-opportunity-to-be-the-scariest-game-on-the-next-generation-hardware\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-12-22-this-is-an-opportunity-to-be-the-scariest-game-on-the-next-generation-hardware\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was probably the stand-out reveal of this month&#8217;s Game Awards show; a first look at the kind of survival sci-fi horror so many of us have been pining for, from the same people that brought us video game&#8217;s defining sci-fi horror Dead Space. 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