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The walls came tumbling down.
Zach Budgor
You can stream Hohokum’s rippling, pastel soundtrack for free
Yellow Submarine, meet Kid A.
Hohokum is wiggling to an August 12 release
All aboard the Yellow Submarine.
Quintessential J-horror series Fatal Frame to begin crawling out of screens again
The Gamepad Obscura.
Infographic platformer Metrico to chart your frustrations on August 5th
As slick as Device 6, but substantially less sinister.
The almost-literally indescribable Paradise is coming to mobile
Ready your nouns for verbing.
Bloodborne is dragging Demon’s Souls forward by pulling from its past
Dark Souls II definitely earned the numeral in its title, whatever you thought of the game proper. It reworked and remixed Dark Souls but there was little in it that felt unfamiliar to series veterans. But the mastermind of misery himself Hidetaka Miyazaki, absent from Souls II, has returned with Bl
The Yellow Wallpaper lets you, too, shatter the domestic sphere
From the crucible of another game jam—this time it’s the Public Domain Jam—an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” has emerged [play here]. Famous for its visceral depiction of obsessive behavior (H.P. Lovecraft was a noted fan) as much as its social subtext, “
This looks like Hyper Light Drifter but darker; here’s hoping it comes out
In the year 20XX, in a TIGSource devlog… Irkalla. It’s a side-scrolling arcade shooter that has the pixel-y charm of Hyper Light Drifter (or your personal favorite upcoming GIF-machine), and all the bleak, gunmetal-grey mech-strewn wastelands you can ask for. Yeah, the pored-over, long-gestating pix
Rosetta makes you a genius, for a moment
Unravel the mysteries of language.
Cyberpunk Game Jam yields rad cyberpunk games; here are our favs
Last month’s Cyberpunk Game Jam has yielded enough interesting, colorful, diverse games to make Molly Millions do that gross thing where she cries through her mouth. With ten days to work, many devs came out the other side with impressively realized games. A few suggestions: first, prolific jammer/m
OMORI is equal parts Final Fantasy and Eraserhead
You’d be forgiven for thinking horror games have lost their edge lately. The current torchbearer is Amnesia: start with a weird fiction pedigree, keep the player on her toes with careful formal elements, and pop in a horrific slavering hellspawn when all else fails. Games like Slender and its YouTub
Heart Forth, Alicia is a gorgeous RPG seven years in the making
Videogames are hardly wanting for another Metroidvania – that exploration-heavy, upgrade-focused branch of the RPG tree. But Heart Forth, Alicia is a particularly tempting fruit. The game lays its cards on the table with a $60 tier that delivers a boxed copy of the game and manual designed “in the s