Calum Fraser

London

Multimedia Producer at Channel 4 News

Journalist for @Channel4News / formerly @IslingtonTrib and @NewJournal and @SthLondonPress / opinions my own

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Articles

Holstin – Beta Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

2 weeks ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

Holstin is a very cool perspective-shifting psychological survival horror game set in a 90’s Poilsh town that’s infested with a mysterious light-phobic ooze. Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer in 2023, Holstin sees you searching for a missing friend in a Polish town that’s been overrun with an infectious ooze that’s turning people into zombie-like monsters.
CLEARED HOT – Beta Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

2 weeks ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

CLEARED HOT is a Desert Strike interior isometric classic helicopter combat game with plenty of carnage, an entertaining story and plenty of physics-based carnage. In CLEARED HOT you are a dishonorably discharged military pilot who ends up back in the fight again in the cockpit of customizable helicopters across diverse environments including desert, jungle, and arctic terrains.
Tormented Souls 2 – Beta Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

3 weeks ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

Tormented Souls 2, the sequel to the well received old school survival horror game, continues the haunting journey of Caroline Walker, after the terrifying events at Wildberger Hospital. In Tormented Souls 2 Caroline’s sister Anna becomes plagued by disturbing visions that mysteriously manifest into reality. Their search for answers leads them to Villa Hess, a remote Chilean town harboring dark secrets.
PIGFACE – Beta Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

3 weeks ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

PIGFACE is an ultra-violent FPS where a deadly killer with a terrible past is forced to fulfil contracts for people who have drilled into her head. Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer a year ago, in PIGFACE you are a bad person who has done very bad things, and you’re about to be blackmailed into doing even more. You wake up in an old warehouse to find that you have a bomb drilled into your head. The people behind it are now forcing you to fulfil murder-filled contracts for them.
DOOM SPIRAL – Alpha Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

3 weeks ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

DOOM SPIRAL is a very intense first person corridor shooter where a hacker blasts their way through glitchy layers of consciousness. Playing a little like Post Void and Cruel, DOOM SPIRAL is a corridor runner FPS where spotting where your enemies are can be as tricky as shooting them. In the game you are a hacker who has breached the computer systems of a shadowy organization. You’re now trapped in the system, in a glitchy spiral of insanity filled with deadly Void Ghosts.
Gloomy Eyes – Beta Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

3 weeks ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

Gloomy Eyes is a beautiful narrative driven dark poetic adventure where a zombie boy and a human girl set out to find the sun in a permanently dark world. An adaptation of the 2020 VR experience, Gloomy Eyes is a cinematic third person puzzle adventure set in a world where the sun has stopped rising. The game is played out via large and beautifully crafted dioramas, where you explore, solve puzzles and discover secrets.
Putt Down – Alpha Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

3 weeks ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

Putt Down is a high-stakes mini-golf horror game where your club is a double-barrel shotgun and you can die if you don’t beat the holes. Currently in development by Icehelm (creator of Gone Golfing), Putt Down is a horror mini-golf game where you hit the ball with a shotgun. As in normal mini-golf, your goal is to hit it into the hole in as few shots as possible, but how you go about it is a little different.
The Button Effect – Beta Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

1 month ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

The Button Effect is an inventive minimalist first person puzzle game set within a serene museum where every button has a purpose. A puzzle game in a similar vein as The Witness and The Talos Principle, The Button Effect transforms puzzle-solving into an art form within an enigmatic museum where every interaction carries meaning. It challenges players to observe, interpret, and understand the consequences of each button press.
PHASE ZERO – Beta Demo | Alpha Beta Gamer

1 month ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

PHASE ZERO is a Resident Evil inspired old school fixed camera survival horror game where two survivors attempt to escape a monster-filled harbor town. Aiming to resurrect the golden age of survival horror, PHASE ZERO blends classic design philosophy with modern refinements, embracing the aesthetic DNA of PSX-era masterpieces through prerendered backgrounds and fixed camera angles.
Darkenstein 3D – Alpha Sign Up | Alpha Beta Gamer

1 month ago | alphabetagamer.com | Calum Fraser

Darkenstein 3D is a Wolfenstein and DOOM inspired boomer shooter that hurls players into a bullet-soaked rescue mission as a hobo attempts to rescue his dog from Nazis. In Darkenstein 3D you take on the role of an American drifter who rampages through WWII Nazi Germany with one goal: saving his kidnapped dog. It’s an old school boomer shooter that demands skill, with no cover systems or aim assists, just pure dodging, strafing, and precision shooting with big beefy guns.