{"id":6733,"date":"2022-08-19T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/in-the-callisto-protocol-dark-and-terrible-things-lurk-in-space\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:38:33","slug":"in-the-callisto-protocol-dark-and-terrible-things-lurk-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/in-the-callisto-protocol-dark-and-terrible-things-lurk-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Callisto Protocol, dark and terrible things lurk in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the minds behind deeply unsettling sci-fi classic Dead Space imagines another haunted, forsaken space station in this forthcoming horror game<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed convict staggers through a lunar prison that\u2019s been sundered by some sort of galactic catastrophe. The steely corridors are shrouded in darkness, save for the neon glow of computer terminals. Every step is tentative, because pulsating monstrosities \u2013 other prisoners, mutated into abominable forms \u2013 threaten to emerge from every crevice.<\/p>\n<p>Few versions of hell loom larger in the imagination than the haunted, derelict space station. You\u2019re alone in the dark, far from home, and stalked by whatever horrors have leaked in from the cosmic void. Steve Papoutsis has been obsessed with this bleak fantasy for years: he worked as a producer on the vaunted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2018\/feb\/16\/dead-space-was-to-games-what-alien-was-to-movies\">Dead Space<\/a><em> <\/em>series, which condemned gamers to their own forsaken Nostromo. The Callisto Protocol, which arrives on consoles and PC later this year, is pitched as a spiritual successor to that franchise. Papoutsis is at the helm once again, and wants to show us just how terrifying the final frontier can be.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/aug\/19\/in-the-callisto-protocol-dark-and-terrible-things-lurk-in-space\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5477a7144d0a5df4b4f154f92373690e01bef1cc\/443_204_2706_1624\/master\/2706.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=27278ca34392092a1c3024683430c0a4\" title=\"In The Callisto Protocol, dark and terrible things lurk in space\" \/>One of the minds behind deeply unsettling sci-fi classic Dead Space imagines another haunted, forsaken space station in this forthcoming horror game<br \/>\nAn unnamed convict staggers through a lunar prison that\u2019s been sundered by some sort of galactic catastrophe. The steely corridors are shrouded in darkness, save for the neon glow of computer terminals. Every step is tentative, because pulsating monstrosities \u2013 other prisoners, mutated into abominable forms \u2013 threaten to emerge from every crevice.<br \/>\nFew versions of hell loom larger in the imagination than the haunted, derelict space station. You\u2019re alone in the dark, far from home, and stalked by whatever horrors have leaked in from the cosmic void. Steve Papoutsis has been obsessed with this bleak fantasy for years: he worked as a producer on the vaunted Dead Space series, which condemned gamers to their own forsaken Nostromo. The Callisto Protocol, which arrives on consoles and PC later this year, is pitched as a spiritual successor to that franchise. Papoutsis is at the helm once again, and wants to show us just how terrifying the final frontier can be. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the minds behind deeply unsettling sci-fi classic Dead Space imagines another haunted, forsaken space station in this forthcoming horror game An unnamed convict staggers through a lunar prison that\u2019s been sundered by some sort of galactic catastrophe. The steely corridors are shrouded in darkness, save for the neon glow of computer terminals. Every &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/in-the-callisto-protocol-dark-and-terrible-things-lurk-in-space\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In The Callisto Protocol, dark and terrible things lurk in space<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}