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Nighttime Visitor brings cell phone horror to videogames
You do not answer a ringing phone. This should be one of the rules to surviving a horror movie if it isn’t already. Don’t pick up the goddamn phone. Don’t you remember Scream? Or When A Stranger Calls? If you pick up that phone the countdown on your death clock accelerates at a blistering speed. Don
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Kôna invites you to investigate an abandoned town in 1970s Canada
The most striking thing about the new trailer for Kôna, an upcoming surreal mystery game from Parabole, is its narration. It has this really odd, stilted intonation that I can’t quite place; the boom and quirk of old timey radio announcer meets the uncanny poetry of The Residents. Whatever it is, I
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Announcing Failsafe, which sends you running through a Miyazaki-esque world
Failsafe recalls The Wind Waker, Journey and Mirror’s Edge.
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Memoir En Code, or how to sell yourself through a videogame
“The more you play, the more you know me.” This is the line that hammers out, a single word at a time, every time you open up Alex Camilleri’s autobiographical game album Memoir En Code. It strikes me as an odd objective for a creator to imply to their audience. But, as I think about it, I realize t
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Pathologic Classic’s new trailer is how videogame trailers should be done
Pathologic Classic HD, the remaster of Ice-Pick Lodge’s classic horror game, is out and along with it, a brand new trailer. It’s exactly what a trailer for a game like this should be: a long, slow montage of people and places, monuments and landscapes recognizable to loyal fans, but foreign to those
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Cibele captures all the awkward intimacy of digital love
The fickle, ephemeral love of the online boyfriend.
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Hotline Bling is now an actual hotline. Thanks, Justin Bieber
I can’t say that I ever imagined myself as a late-night hotline customer. I can definitely say that I never imagined myself as a late-night Justin Bieber hotline customer. But last Friday night I found myself dialing 231-371-1113 from my bedroom to hear the little terror’s cover of Drake’s “Hotline
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What are the most common places used in horror games?
The architecture of our fears.
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The first few minutes of Below shows the start of a legendary adventure
Exploring the depths of a cavernous island, a tiny warrior rigorously battles their way through the unknown, struggling against a stream of enemies. The story of a small hero up against a dark scary world isn’t a new concept, but it’s a powerful one. In Below, this concept is put into practice, and
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Pro Evo Soccer 2016 is a leviathan of approximation
Letting soccer get lost in the scramble