Blair Witch takes us back 20 years.
Blair Witch takes us back 20 years.
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Blair Witch hands-on impressions — Battling the minions of an unseen evil

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Blair Witch Project has never gotten good video game treatment. A trio of games came out in the year 2000, but they had little lasting impact. And now Lionsgate has teamed up with Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team to give it another try.

And so, 20 years after the original film debuted, Blair Witch is coming out on August 30 for Windows PC and Xbox One. I played a demo of the game’s beginning, a middle section, and scene in a mysterious house late in the game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.