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Retro Horror Steam Shooter Nails That Unsettling Halloween Vibe
30.10.2021
Don’t let the highly stylized art fool you. The first-person shooter Forgive Me Father is unsettling because of its flat comic-book graphics, not in spite of them. At first, I was charmed by how the art style made the game feel like a distant cousin to Paper Mario. By the end of the second level,...
An Action Platformer Perf For Those Too Chicken For Halloween
29.10.2021
Sometimes, Halloween can be just a bit too scary. There are ghosts and ghouls and undead and…assholes. Living is frightening and, so too, is the thought of death and mortality. That’s exactly why Skul: The Hero Slayer works as a comfy spooky game. It’s not really scary. It just pretends to be.Read...
Pokémon's Creepy Lavender Town Myth, Explained
29.10.2021
Pokémon may be famously cheery, but the series has its share of dark, spooky myths. The most famous of those have got to be the ones about Lavender Town.Read more
All I Want For Christmas Is A PSP
29.10.2021
The PSP is long dead. The Playstation Vita too. But long live Vale’s Steam Deck, a handheld that’s just around the corner, and thanks to Sony’s new PC gaming push, will finally make the dream of playing the company’s biggest blockbusters on a small portable device a reality.Read more
Remember When Everyone Was Convinced GTA: San Andreas Was Full of Creepy Secrets?
29.10.2021
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas isn’t filled with ghosts, aliens, cryptids, monsters, or shadow people. But in the years after its initial 2004 release—at a time when uploading videos to the internet was hard and datamining games was less common—people believed Rockstar’s classic open-world game...
Far Cry 6's Secret Cat Boat Has A Long History At Ubisoft
29.10.2021
Here’s a small item that had me feline fine on this debatably not-fine Friday: In Far Cry 6, there’s an island with a shipwrecked boat full of cat dolls. It’s cute. It’s also, as I just learned today, apparently a long-running gag in a particular flavor of Ubisoft map games.Read more
Uncharted's Amy Hennig Is Making A Marvel Game
29.10.2021
Skydance New Media and Amy Hennig, the creative director on the first three Uncharted games, announced today that they are working on a new narrative-focused Marvel action-adventure game featuring an original storyline.Read more
Unofficial Mario NFT Game Players Are Actually Glad Nintendo Discovered It
29.10.2021
Another Mario fan game looks like it’s about to bite the dust, but this time nobody’s shedding any tears. The 1up Platform is a cryptocurrency scheme that got underway earlier this year, seemingly featuring a battle royale of corporate copyrights and stolen artwork. Now it’s finally attracted...
A Psychedelic Horror Game About Exploring A Haunted Train
29.10.2021
Boarding a city subway is always a dice roll for whatever terror awaits you once the train doors close. Maybe there’s some trash taking up a seat, or annoying passengers who are hell bent on making their business yours. The new psychological horror game, Subway Midnight, taps into that uncertainty...
Majora’s Mask Is A Masterpiece Of Existential Horror
29.10.2021
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is that horrifying moon. It’s ominous, always smiling, a reminder that death is an inevitability for everyone. It lingers in the background, like a shadow against a wall, waiting to strike. If, after three days...
Ubisoft will seek to invest in and create blockchain games
29.10.2021
The firm is backing Animoca Brands, creator of popular metaverse game, The Sandbox
Alone In The Dark Scared The Crap Out Of Me
29.10.2021
I am scared of many things in video games. Sharks mostly, but there’s other stuff. Nothing has ever scared me, though, as much as 1992's Alone in the Dark.Read more
Obscure SNES RPG Lets You Take Photos Of Lovecraftian Horrors For Mad Cash
29.10.2021
Making money in role-playing games often boils down to killing monsters or selling off low-level equipment you no longer need. But the terrifying Laplace no Ma (roughly Laplace’s Demon in English) takes a more novel approach, allowing you to accrue a small fortune by taking glamour shots...
Here’s Every Upcoming Video Game Release Date
28.10.2021
Video games are a lot like years: They start coming, then they don’t stop coming, and they don’t stop coming, and they...yeah. Then you’ve got the games industry’s tectonically shifting release calendar, defined by an endless march of delays and cancellations. Even if you’re the most avid gamer...
World Of Warcraft’s Latest Mount Is A Giant Kitty Cat
28.10.2021
I don’t know, folks. Between trying to keep up with Amazon’s New World and the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker expansion, I just don’t think I have time for World of Warcraft any more. Wait, I can ride a giant kitten with tufted ears that chases its tail? You son of a bitch, I’m in.Read more
Amazon Prime’s Free Games For November Are Shockingly Good, Again
28.10.2021
Amazon has been giving away free games as part of its paid Prime membership for a while now, but they’ve rarely been this good. After a powerhouse lineup last month, the service is doubling down in November with nine more, and just in time for Tomb Raider’s birthday.Read more
Behold The Strange And Wondrous Aliens Of Guardians Of The Galaxy
28.10.2021
So, it turns out that Guardians of the Galaxy is very, very good! Don’t let Square Enix’s previous Marvel game, the online mess that is Avengers, scare you away from checking out this new, single-player adventure starring the galaxy’s most dysfunctional found family. Not only is it a blast to play...
Genshin Impact's Strongest Character To Make Comeback
28.10.2021
The Pyro-element characters in Genshin Impact are known to be high-damage dealers, but Hu Tao is an anomaly among them. She’s an ideal damage dealer for those who don’t mind her risky playstyle. More importantly, she’s only available through gacha pulls for a very limited window of time, which...
Dr. Dre Is Making Music For An Upcoming GTA Game, Says Snoop Dogg
28.10.2021
Rockstar Games recently revealed Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, which launches digitally next month and hits store shelves in December. Alongside this high-profile return to the franchise’s past, though, the developer is presumably still working on its future....
Fortnite Boss Slams Billionaire Tax He Doesn't Seem To Fully Understand
28.10.2021
Surprise, surprise, Epic Games founder, Tim Sweeney, is not a fan of the new billionaire tax being proposed in Congress at the moment. The CEO of the company, which prints money thanks to Fortnite, said the tax would possibly “end founder control” of Epic Games, calling into question whether...