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The Mortuary Assistant dev on laying his cancelled Paranormal Activity game to rest, resurrecting it as a Halloween freebie, and a potential return to his bigg…
Halloween feels like an especially appropriate time for Playable Archive's arrival.
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Playable Archive, a roughly 30‑minute found‑footage horror experience, launched this week as a free Halloween offering from Brian Clarke, the creator of The Mortuary Assistant. The demo is a small segment of Clarke’s larger, now‑canceled Paranormal Activity game and nods to the legendary Playable Teaser made for Hideo Kojima’s aborted Silent Hill project. Clarke began developing the Paranormal Activity title after The Mortuary Assistant’s 2022 release, when publisher DreadXP approached him about adapting the film franchise. In the interview, Clarke discusses laying that project to rest and hints the work could influence a future Mortuary Assistant sequel.
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