Reading about playing a horror game can be scarier than playing the game itself. For Ryan Winslett’s experience playing Slender, the narration is terrifying enough for my tastes. The simple Unity game has the player collecting 8 pages. With each page, the Slender Man chases you more intensely. When
The new LEGO line, Monster Fighters, brings supernatural creatures and pocket watches to the toy franchise. The train set has a throttle lever and a coal chamber with a little fire inside it. One minifigure has garlic and a vampire stake as her accessories. Austin Sirkin at WonderHowTo did a review
The flak continues for Microsoft, after the introduction of a new regulation that prohibits the distribution of games rated above ESRB Mature and Pegi 16 through the Windows 8 store. This includes titles Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, Bioshock et cetera. It’s been a bad few weeks for the new OS and games. N
October is the one time where I feel compelled to play horror games in order to be a good festive citizen. They both fascinate and terrify me. Cameron Kunzelman, in his “designing horror” series, examined why the game Deep Sleep is disturbing. The aesthetic is a dream aesthetic. Things change before
Characters don’t spring fully-formed from the pen of an artist. For a while, their designs are malleable; their expressions half-formed. It’s why early comics usually look a little different from the final designs. For some mediums, these in-between forms never see the light of day. Doug TenNapel, t
There is a painting in a COD map that reads “Allah is beautiful and He loves beauty”, and predictably, some Muslim gamers are upset. They aren’t offended by the unusual presence of Allah-worshippers in a favela, but rather because the words hung above a toilet. Activision released an apology: We apo
If you loved Wing Commander as a kid, you’re in for a treat. The franchise’s creator Chris Roberts teased his new project Space Citizen, a space sim that will apparently reinvigorate the genre and restore its place alongside democracy as mankind’s greatest achievement. He is, of course, crowd-fundi
Pushcat raises the stakes on match-3 games by including enemies and side-scrolling levels. The chiptunes Mussorgsky is, additionally, completely rad in a classical music nerd way.