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Lovecraft-Inspired Horror Game Explores The Cost Of Creation

17.9.2021
The Well is the latest microscopic horror game from Yames, the dev behind other unnerving fare like Water Womb World and Discover My Body. It takes about 20-30 minutes to see through to the end (maybe a little longer if you, like me, struggle with getting the game to run full screen). Yames...

The Art Of The Lord Of The Rings Movies

16.9.2021
Twenty years on from the release of the first film in the trilogy, New Zealand’s Weta Workshop have dropped a bunch of concept art from the whole Lord of the Rings series.Read more

Remember When EA Motion Capped A Baby?

5.8.2021
The fact that the Dead Space developers made a game based on Dante Aligheri’s The Divine Comedy is weird enough, even without thinking about the motion capped, unbaptised children that face you in your descent to hell.Read more

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus Deserves To Be Replayed Dozens of Times

30.6.2021
Playing through the original Doki Doki Literature Club is a singular experience, unfolding with a dark and twisted magic that cannot be recaptured once set loose. It can be expanded upon, however, enhanced with new stories, structure, and secrets that make this week’s Doki Doki Literature Club Plus...

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus Adds Extra In-Game Content Warnings

24.6.2021
Doki Doki Literature Club, a pleasant game about adorable anime teens learning about life and love, has many issues. Serious issues that you might want to be warned about as you play through the otherwise bright and cheery visual novel. For the release of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus on PC...

The Nintendo Download: Doki Doki Disgaea Golf Club

24.6.2021
It’s a banner week for the Nintendo Download, with 37 new games hitting the Switch eShop, including Mario Golf: Super Rush, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny, and the remastered version of Legend of Mana. There’s almost no room on the list for nonsense shovelware!...

First Official WitcherCon Is Happening In July

11.6.2021
Toss a coin to your friends who are about to get extremely sick of an earworm they could’ve sworn faded into obsolescence a year ago. Today, during the final Geeked Week stream, Netflix officially pulled back the curtain on The Witcher’s upcoming second season in...a 12-second teaser. Then there...

A Group Of Hades Fans Are Staging The Entire Iliad On Twitch

4.6.2021
Hades, the well-received roguelike from Supergiant Games, is very obviously rooted in Greek myth. So what better way for a cadre of the games’ most devoted fans to pay homage to the source material than by staging a cover-to-cover reading of The Iliad, arguably one of the most recognizable stories...

Before Game of Thrones Got Big, Intimacy Was Its Greatest Strength

15.4.2021
This Sunday marks 10 years since Game of Thrones changed the television landscape as we know it—kickstarting a decade of imitators, influencing the way genre stories were told as prestige drama, and, for most of that decade, expanding itself into a pop-cultural behemoth. Revisiting its first season...

Neil Gaiman Stars as Neil Gaiman in an Audible Original About Neil Gaiman

7.3.2021
Neil Gaiman is Neil Gaiman in the role of a lifetime.Read more

Chaos Walking Has Too Much Walking, Too Little Chaos

3.3.2021
Actually, let me take that back slightly—there is quite a lot of chaos in Chaos Walking, but only in the sense that attempting to navigate a coherent arc through its jumbled, disjointed scenes is a frustratingly messy ask of its audience. Despite its big names, Chaos Walking’s languid energy...

Crusader Kings III Is Getting Very Into Writing Poetry

3.3.2021
Crusader Kings III has always had poetry—some romance paths would even adjust its quality depending on the skill of your pursuer—but the game is about to go all in on it, adding it as a character trait and even creating a generator that will write your ruler’s musings for you.Read more

Trans Inclusion Means More Than Just Adding Potential Gender Options To Hogwarts Legacy

2.3.2021
Upcoming Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy will feature some customization options related to gender, according to a report by Bloomberg. It’s a step toward trans inclusion in a game mired in controversy, even if it still shows the limitations of video games’ handling of trans people.Read more

Hogwarts Legacy Lead Designer Used To Run Anti-Social Justice YouTube Channel

21.2.2021
Troy Leavitt is a lead designer at Warner Bros. development studio Avalanche Software currently working on controversial Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy. He also ran a reactionary YouTube channel focused on attacking feminism and social justice for over a year.Read more

In Militsioner, Tall Cops Are Bastards

13.2.2021
Russian studio TallBoys has released a few more minutes of footage from Militsioner, its upcoming “try to escape a town watched over by a gigantic policeman” simulator (h/t Rock Paper Shotgun).Read more

The True Monster in Silence of the Lambs, Still Rearing Its Ugly Head 30 Years Later

10.2.2021
Clarice Starling first appeared onscreen in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs; the 2001 feature Hannibal followed, and the CBS series Clarice debuts this week. The lead’s immediate association has always been with the killers she pursues for the FBI—but rewatching Lambs offers a reminder of...