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“It’s About Skinning Faces, and That’s All You Need to Know”
Adam Pype’s new horror game wants you to be the monster.
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Podcast
Adam Pype Hands You the Knife [Podcast]
I ask Adam Pype why SKINFACE, a game about peeling off strangers’ faces, sits easier with the squeamish than horror that happens to you, and what he makes next.
News
Rasheed Abueideh's Game About the 1948 Nakba Goes Into Full Production
Dreams on a Pillow has raised more than $113,000 on LaunchGood and passed 10,000 Steam wishlists.
Feature
Playing with the Trickster
“They are the lords of in-between. A trickster does not live near the hearth; he does not live in the halls of justice, the soldier’s tent, the shaman’s hut, the monastery. He passes through each of these when there is a moment of silence, and he enlivens each with mischief, but he is not their guid
News
An upcoming game about finding out your neighbor’s darkest secrets
You might be lucky enough to live in a lovely neighborhood, surrounded by friendly people who help one and another and come together during times of grief. However, even among these quite communities (perhaps especially so) there is that one person that always seems to be hiding something from every
Review
Aragami is a shadow of what it could be
In 1995, the Guinness World Records Committee officially decreed that a parakeet named Puck had the largest vocabulary of any bird in the world. Puck knew 1,728 words, and like others of his species, was able to assemble them into phrases and sentences appropriate to the situation he was in. “It’s C
News
Hitman’s accent problem finally finds a solution (sorta)
Hitman, in most ways, has been going from strength to strength. The episodic murder simulator has seemingly found its form, with the space between each episode giving players plenty of time to experiment with its techniques and locations, finding increasingly outrageous kills and bizarre events. We’
News
A daddy-daughter stealth game about escaping a war-torn city
It goes without saying that sensationalized military conflict has long been a staple of the videogame landscape. From Contra (1987) to Halo 2 (2004), Modern Warfare (2007) to Bad Company (2008), the variety of titles that allow players to occupy the boots of a laconic lone shooter on foreign territo
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A game for Tenchu fans arrives next month
The darkness is scary. We’ve been fighting back against night and shadows since prehistoric times. It’s a fear that horror movies and novels have preyed on for decades; the dark room, the claustrophobic shadows where unknown horrors lurk, are often more dread-inducing than the monster itself. In Ara
News
How to stealthily infiltrate a real-life 1970s cult? Let The Church in the Darkness show you
The Church in the Darkness has been pitched as an “action-infiltration” game based on a real-life cult since its announcement. But even though what we knew of it was colorful—far-left radicalist group in the 70s moves to Latin America to create a socialist utopia, goes full cult—we still didn’t know
News
Card Thief’s abstraction of stealth gets more impressive
The last time we saw Card Thief, its creators were in the midst of building a stealth-based approach to card games that has more in common with Thief (1998) than, well, cards. Long story short, Card Thief uses the statistics typical of both card and tabletop games to simulate the effects of light, t
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It’s you and your friends against mind-control tech in Signal Decay
The stealth strategy game Signal Decay, previously known as Squad of Saviors, has just made its way to Steam Greenlight. The premise is simple: you wake up one day and the rest of the world has come under the sway of some indomitable evil, so it’s up to you (and up to three of your friends!) to save