{"id":15774,"date":"2026-10-22T23:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=15774"},"modified":"2026-10-23T05:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:25:18","slug":"saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Saber Interactive CEO Says Clive Barker\u2019s Hellraiser: Revival is Performing &#8216;Extremely Well on PC and Consoles&#8217; with More to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Clive Barker\u2019s Hellraiser: Revival has been a smash hit, says Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch in a post on LinkedIn, and it\u2019s the first of a \u201cseries\u201d of releases from the studio that will improve how it makes games in the future.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Hellraiser: Revival has proven to be a smashing success, in spite of \u2014 or, perhaps because of \u2014 its super-spicy content. The game doesn\u2019t skirt around the sex, blood, and gore that defined the source material, causing some content creators to get permanently banned despite taking pains to censor their playthroughs.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In an October 19 LinkedIn post, Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch praised the Hellraiser development team, revealing the title has been performing \u201cextremely well on PC and console\u201d since its October 8 release.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Hellraiser: Revival Review Screens<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hellraiser: Revival Review Screens\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2277167929 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">He also speculated that AAA titles with massive budgets and lengthy development timelines won\u2019t be sustainable in the industry for much longer (if, indeed, they are right now), instead positing that AA games based on established IPs with smaller budgets are likely a more realistic path forward.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cThe game is testament to the notion that an established IP and solid AA development with controlled costs can produce great results and high user scores,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI believe a greater focus on these middle-market IP-driven products, rather than AAA behemoths, is the future to maintaining growth and momentum in the game industry.  <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cWhile I believe there will always be a place for the properly-developed and budgeted AAA experience, a AA game that provides a great immersive experience for a lower price is less risky and can provide much greater returns on average.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Karch went on to say that Hellraiser: Revival is \u201cthe first in a series of releases by Saber that will continue to prove out our methodology,\u201d teasing that there\u2019s \u201cmore to come in just a few short weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">While IGN scored the game a six out of ten, Clive Barker\u2019s Hellraiser: Revival boasts a \u201cvery positive\u201d player score on Steam, and has earned no small amount of praise from content creators who showed up in droves to broadcast the game on release.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Of course, given its content, it\u2019s no surprise that some streamers got the ban hammer \u2014 but, according to its developers, that\u2019s exactly what they were aiming for when they made it.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;It was an unofficial goal of the team to be banned, unrated, or restricted at least somewhere in the world as one barometer of whether we\u2019d done our jobs right,\u201d narrative director Antony De Fault told IGN in an exclusive interview. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Even Clive Barker himself was impressed, saying he was \u201cfearful at one point that the game would be overly censored but I\u2019m genuinely astonished by how far they\u2019ve been able to push it.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"author-sign-off\" data-cy=\"author-sign-off\"><span class=\"stack jsx-59817748 jsx-1927875859\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-444076027 jsx-1730475047 profile-thumb jsx-2141281959 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-1-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Virginia Glaze Avatar\" class=\"progressive-image profile-thumb-img jsx-249361588 jsx-2338608387 expand\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come.jpg\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-2509706801 jsx-3630940851\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"interface jsx-1132626198 sign-off-text\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at <\/em>@TheeMissGlaze<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/saber-interactive-ceo-says-clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival-is-performing-extremely-well-on-pc-and-consoles-with-more-to-come-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-15774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15776,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions\/15776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}