In subject order this time. Here are trailers, videos and stuff from Youtube that caught my attention when logging in between 1/6 till today (1/10) of 2025.
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First REAL Nerd Notes of 2025 (1/10/2025)
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Helios Hotel: The Night Shift, launching on PC Feb 14, 2025
Check-in for a short stay with first-person indie horror Helios Hotel: The Night Shift, launching for PC on Feb 14, 2025
Download the demo now to begin your shift!
Washington, US – 9 January 2025. Rose Lane Games, a new developer and publisher of indie horror games, announced today that its inaugural chapter-based indie horror, Helios Hotel: The Night Shift, will be launching on February 14, 2025 on PC across Steam with a 15% for the first week of launch.
Helios Hotel: The Night Shift is a first-person, choose-your-own-adventure style horror game inspired by paranormal and slasher films such as The Shining, Halloween and Friday the 13th that is broken down into bite-sized chapters. The main protagonist, Rose, has just moved to a small town ready to start a brand-new life and quickly lands a job as the fancy new hotel’s front desk receptionist.
Check out the announcement trailer, below:
Players are also invited to start their first shift by downloading the teaser demo, here
You take on the role of Rose and initially undertake the everyday tasks of the hotel, such as booking in guests and ensuring they get everything they need. As today is Rose’s first day, she’s naturally keen to make a good impression with her boss; but what begins as a quick introduction soon evolves into a number of strange occurrences and a distinct feeling that something isn’t quite right…
Features
- Creepy, claustrophobic atmosphere
- Fully playable on Steam Deck
- Exploration in first-person plants you firmly in the thick of the action
- Jump scares and unnerving audio cues when you least expect them
- Oddball cast of guests and employees leaves you unsure of their motivations
- Simple tasks designed to both engage and alarm the player
- Unlock achievements for performing certain actions
- Player choices affect the character dialogue and what they will experience
- The choices the player makes throughout the game’s chapters will affect the ending
- A total of four endings based on the choices made throughout the game
- Support for gamepad/controller as well as for Keyboard + Mouse
- A basic graphics setting option that allows the game to run on lower-end hardware, provided it still falls under the minimum specs
Launch
Helios Hotel: The Night Shift releases on February 14, 2025 on PC via Steam for a suggested retail price of $2.99 / £2.49 / €2.99.
About Rose Lane Games
Rose Lane Games is an independent developer and publisher of videogames founded in August 2023 by Rick Castillo. Based in Seattle/Redmond, USA, Rose Lane Games aims to create memorable, story-driven horror games inspired by paranormal and slasher films primarily for personal computers and videogame consoles.
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NERD NOTES (first of 2025) 1/5/2025 (A BEAST)
I have not done a Nerd Notes since November 27th, 2024. As usual this will be a mish mosh of YT embeddings of music videos, movie, tv and video game trailers and anything else that caught my attention that I feel needs to be shared. An explanation to my sharing will be underneath each video per usual. Nothing will be in order but will cover November 28th till today unles it was something posted prior but discovered later. Into the HISTORY tab I go!
And there there are perfume ads, which if all combined would be a surreal star studded blockbuster of a flick that could win Oscars and MTV awards at the same time.
Now for those games announced at the VGAs 2024 that got me super excited.
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PERSONAL 2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
The following is in order from Jan.
– New Orleans vacation in Winter with mom. Visiting with Pam, Nerina and Meriel. Saw a Mardi Gras Parade. Got wasted on Bourbon Street by myself.
– NY NOW Winter 2024 (in which I got many products and fun stuff to keep me smiling)
– Neil Patrick Harris’ BOX ONE by Theory11 (This came out a few years prior but finally checked it for myself and loved the journey)
– Late Night With The Devil special event with Martin Monster. Saw my longtime friend Fritz. David D appeared in character.
– MOCCAFest 2024 (I only went the one day but it was great to experience again)
– Recording the episodes of the Opening Contest Podcast with Carter (and one with David) [this continued after my mom’s health decline but stopped temporarily]
– First and so far only visit to Industry City for their comicsfest with mom in tow
– New furniture in the living room (Life changing actually, both before and after mom’s surgery)
– The Nick Karpe x Orange Crush VISITORS weekend
(The break in the year becoming rough was after these highlights as my mom had emergency LIFE SAVING surgery.
Then she was in rehab till June and till today is still on Ostomy but much stronger as of September, although always touch and go.
It has made the second half of 2024 difficult, life changing and stressful. I am grateful to have her still and to be there for her.
Every moment listed after this has been life giving and stress relieving.)
– Breana’s visit and all the sites we got to share. In a perfect world, I’d have Breana to hang out with on the regular, but I would also have Nick & Terri here, so… yeah, alas.
– Five Points Fest 2024 (art, wrestling, long time friends, hang outs and feeling like my old self)
– Great American Trash wrestling and music show on July 4th (friends and fun)
– NY NOW Summer 2024 (another excellent showvase)
– September day in the city with mother (5th Avenue, Rockefeller, just seeing her more herself since surgery)
– Opening of The Flowery dispensary 3 blocks from my home (a life changer)
– The Revelry Show (discovery and knowledge into a whole new world)
– New York Comic Con 2024 for two days + Fandom Party (new friends, old friends, solid stuff still making me happy)
– Election Day Nightmare event (seeing so many old school friends and acquainatainces felt great)
– Limited Run Games pop-up shop day and walk after to Freeman Alley (another one of those felt like my old self)
– Weekend at American Dream Mall and wrassles with Sam (what an experience this was, biggest weekend out since New Orleans and only other time I left NYC all year)
ADDITIONAL:
Every Twitch interaction (Bizz, Jord, Perception Studio & all connected, BMD, Minimal, and every new or long term person I’ve met and interacted with.
When not watching a film, TV show, going outside to the real world, online experiences with people were the life line I needed)
Playing MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2, DAVE THE DIVER, ASTROBOT, ALAN WAKE 2, HIGH ON LIFE, THE HOLY GOSH DARN and more. Video games were also true serenity.
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PINE: A Story Of Loss Review
Frustration, tedium, anger, reflection, repeat. What you know, what you know, memory, pain, what you know, sleep, repeat. Right, right, round, round, back, right, right, get lost, get found, carve, carve, sleep, repeat. Repeat, repeat, repeat, recovery, repeat, repeat, explore, breath, frustration, anger, beauty, deepness, sadness, pain, tedium, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, pain, tedium, cry, repeat. Keep going, you’ll get there, tedium, patience, confusion, reluctance, is it worth it, why keep going? Tedium, frustration, beauty, repeat.
These are the emotions one will feel while playing through the interactive cartoon PINE: A Story of Loss, a piece of art that clearly should win if anything a BAFTA (the only gaming award I know of that recognizes work like this as games can’t be nominated for film awards… yet).
I have only experienced the loss of a parent and a friend, but never the pain of what it must be like to lose a partner or lover. I am sure this game must give you some of those feels. I have only known them through what others have told me and much of PINE feels accurate. So accurate at times I turned the game off, just not wanting those feelings anymore. I put in 3.8 hours supposedly. I feel like it was less and yet so much more, which I totally feel what the developers intention was.
The work here from Tom Booth and the team at Made Up Games truly deserves to be experienced. No matter what you walk away from feeling during your gameplay. On a personal note my life went drastic places during the 4 hours over a variety of days playing through. It’ll stay with me and change as life changes, as an experience like this should. The art and music may bring me back someday, the gameplay itself may keep me away, but I will have always been grateful to have known it then to have not known it all.
PINE, A Story of Loss is available now on Steam for PC and Nintendo Switch for $9.99 (regular price, a 10% discount exists as the publication of this article 12/15/24) as well as a mobile presentation on iPhone and Android for $4.99.
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Pine: A Story of Loss releases Dec. 13, 2024
Check out the official release date trailer for PINE below:
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PAX East 2025 Badges On-Sale Dec. 11, PAX Unplugged 2025 Returns to Philadelphia in Nov. 2025
PHILADELPHIA – Dec. 8, 2024 – As PAX Unplugged 2024 comes to a close, co-show organizers ReedPop and Penny Arcade announce the East Coast’s most-attended tabletop gaming event will return to the Pennsylvania Convention Center from Friday, Nov. 21, through Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.
Badges for PAX East 2025, the East Coast’s most-attended gaming event, returning to the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center from Thursday, May 8, through Sunday, May 11, 2025, go on sale this Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024.
The sold-out PAX Unplugged 2024 welcomed tens of thousands of tabletop enthusiasts from around the world, alongside even more fans engaging with the 20th anniversary festivities across Twitch and other online platforms. Show highlights include a personal storytime keynote with prolific tabletop designer, Elizabeth Hargrave (Wingspan), and a first look at the upcoming TTRPG Daggerheart, hosted by Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer and Ashley Johnson.
Attendees explored an expo hall packed with over 350 exhibitors dedicated to tabletop, watched lighthearted and insightful panels, witnessed competitive players compete in high-stakes tournaments, and engaged with fellow board game enthusiasts in community meetups. Fans who missed out on the latest updates from Acquisitions Inc. and some of the most exciting panels can check out the official PAX YouTube channel.
PAX East 2025, the East Coast’s most-attended gaming event, will welcome gaming enthusiasts all over the world next spring. Attendees can look forward to the latest demos from AAA game developers and publishers, thought-provoking panels, the return of PAX Arena’s Stream Stars tournament, and more details to be announced in the coming months.
“After a PAX Unplugged that exceeded my every fantasy for what a show like this can be, we aren’t letting off the gas for a second,” said Jerry Holkins, co-founder of Child’s Play, Penny Arcade, and PAX. “It’s an incredible honor to be the place people spend time with their friends and families, and we can’t wait to show them what’s in store for PAX in 2025.”
PAX East 2025 badges go on sale on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, with 3-day badges available for $254 and single-day badges available for $71. Registration for media and content creators opens on Wednesday, December 11, 2024. For more information on future PAX events, follow PAX on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, YouTube, Twitch, and X (formerly Twitter).
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VICE Undercover: New story-trailer, cast revealed; public demo launches on Steam
MIAMI, December 5th, 2024 – Indie micro-studio Ancient Machine has unveiled an electrifying new story trailer for their upcoming narco-thriller, VICE Undercover. Set in an alternate 1985 Miami, where modern technology exists decades early, hackers have become the most valuable tools of the cartels. Players take the role of Vida, a Colombian-American undercover cop working for the Electronic Crime Unit (ECU). When the most powerful cartel’s best hacker mysteriously starts leaving his supercomputer unattended for one real-time hour each day, Vida is sent in to pose as him, fulfill his contracts, and dismantle the cartel from within. But in this world of lies, nothing is as it seems, and everyone has their own agenda. Alongside the trailer, Ancient Machine has released a free demo of VICE Undercover available to download on Steam. The demo offers a sneak peek into the game’s gripping narrative and strategic gameplay, featuring two full episodes. The complete game is set to launch early next year, boasting over 20 hours of content across 24 episodes.
Described by early critics as “a heart-racing, far more involved Papers Please!,” VICE Undercover is a genre-bending point-and-click narco-thriller. Using Amigo OS, a retro-inspired operating system reminiscent of Windows 3.1, players gain access to confidential databases, order hits, monitor security cameras, decode files, wire money, and uncover hidden crime networks. Balancing the demands of the cartel and the ECU—while dozens of other criminal and law enforcement factions close in—makes every decision critical, with the constant threat of blowing your cover. And with the clock always ticking, the pressure mounts.
“This trailer isn’t just a glimpse—it’s a statement of what makes VICE Undercover so unique,” said Cos Lazouras, co-founder of Ancient Machine. “It’s a game that challenges, pressures and keeps you questioning everything you think you know. There’s nothing out there like it, or even on the horizon.”
The new trailer also introduces VICE Undercover’s real-life cast. Starring Colombian actress Kimberly Reyes (El Final del Paraíso, Diomedes: El cacique de la Junta) as Vida and cult actor Tamer Hassan (Football Factory, Batman Begins, Layer Cake), who lends his gravitas to a pivotal role in the story. The game is further elevated by an incredible synth-wave soundtrack featuring original music by LAU.
“With over two decades of Hollywood experience, I’ve learned that ambitious stories demand incredible performances to succeed,” said Lazouras. “Designing VICE Undercover with its intricate subplots and jaw-dropping twist ending was no easy feat, but Kimberly Reyes and Tamer Hassan’s exceptional talent are what truly bring it all together, elevating the game to a whole new level.”
With the demo now live, Ancient Machine invites players to step into the immersive world of VICE Undercover. This is your chance to experience one of the most unique gaming experiences in years.
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Pine: A Story of Loss Carves up a Collector’s Edition
Perfect for those looking to immerse themselves in the touching narrative of a woodworker and his journey through grief
Fellow Traveler is happy to announce that Pine: A Story of Loss will have a Collector’s Edition for fans, which will be available on Steam from launch.
Pine: A Story of Loss Collector’s Edition includes:
The full game, Pine: A Story of Loss
A 100+ page digital artbook, with artwork and sketches from Tom Booth
The game’s Original Soundtrack, with 12 tracks from Tyler Gilmore AKA BlankFor.ms
If you’re a fan of Tom’s work, you can also check out all the great time-lapse videos he’s put together over on our TikTok. He goes through his inspiration for Pine, how he frames the artwork in scenes and more.
Keep an eye out for more information on Pine: A Story of Loss soon! You can do this by following Made Up Games on X/Twitter, follow Tom Booth on Instagram, follow us on X/Twitter, TikTok, or Bluesky, or join our official Discord.
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Enigma of Fear is now available on Nuuvem and Steam! Your paranormal journey begins now
November 2024 – The wait is over: the pixel art/3D investigative suspense game Enigma of Fear, developed by Dumativa and published worldwide by Nuuvem, is now available for PC on Nuuvem and on Steam. The game, which garnered more than 224,000 wishlists on Steam and was also a big highlight at Steam Scream Fest, is the result of a successful crowdfunding campaign, which raised more than $832,000. Enigma of Fear will be available for $24.99 USD with a 10% discount on Steam at launch!To celebrate the release of Enigma of Fear, dive into the thrilling launch trailer.
Embark on a Paranormal AdventureIn Enigma of Fear, fully voiced in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and English, players step into the role of Mia – a young paranormal detective seeking clues to unravel the mysterious disappearance of her father, Mr. Verity, one of the world’s most skilled agents and leader of Ordo Realitas, an organization of paranormal detectives.Joined by her companion, the little dog Lupi, and other friends, Mia embarks on an immersive and intriguing adventure to solve enigmas and face challenging situations.
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Explore a highly detailed, non-linear map divided into five distinct regions. Use an immersive Inspection and Investigation system that lets you feel like a real detective, analyzing clues to uncover the story’s secrets. Defeat unique, brutal bosses: terrifying paranormal creatures will lurk and attack at Mia’s slightest misstep.Immersive visuals and dynamic soundtrack: the game features a unique, eye-catching art direction that combines the charm of Pixel Art with the immersion of 3D environments with dynamic lighting. The soundtrack also accompanies every moment, adapting to each new situation.
Enigma of Fear on Steam:Standard (Base Game): US$24.99
Stay up-to-date with all things Enigma of Fear on social edia: X, YouTube, Twitch and Discord. Don’t forget to add the game to your Steam wishlist.
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