Washington is a big state in the American games industry, so the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle has traditionally been a great convention for smaller games...
I’ve been drawn into a couple of conversations over the last year or so, usually against my will, about the use of excessive signposting in video...
I should’ve guessed I was in for something sadistic with Pneumata when the first enemy exploded. Pneumata is a throwback to an earlier period of survival...
Undying has been in Steam Early Access for the last 2 years, but still doesn’t feel like it’s done. The final version of the game, which...
We used to call games like this “shovelware.” Hellboy Web of Wyrd wasn’t made to do much more than attract fans of the character. It kills...
At this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, the team behind Vampire: The Masquerade showed up in force to debut several projects, including the announcement of...
I first saw Lifeless Moon at the Seattle Indies Expo in 2022. At a glance, the game’s got a great visual hook: an astronaut exploring the...
It’s difficult to recommend or describe My Friendly Neighborhood without using the phrase “and I’m not kidding.” MFN is a short, speedrunner-friendly first-person survival horror game....
Sometimes, dead is better. If you buy Wayforward’s horror action/puzzle game LIT on Steam right now, you’ll get a 2D game about using light sources to...
On paper, Outer Terror looks like it’s aimed directly at me, as a mixture of addictive gameplay with a ‘50s horror comics vibe. In practice, it’s...
I liked The Callisto Protocol a little more on my second time through it. My first run was frustrating, with a lot of sudden violence and...
A few years ago, there was a quiet wave of video games, indie and otherwise, that drew on the existential terror of childhood. Think of Limbo,...
2022 marked the tentative, occasionally unwise return of full physical attendance to the international convention circuit, with shows like the Penny Arcade Expo, Gamescom, the upcoming...
The Callisto Protocol wears its inspirations and ancestry on its sleeve: it’s a dark, violent survival horror game directed by Glen Schofield, the co-creator of the...
I should probably establish my biases up front: there was never much of a chance that I wouldn’t like Signalis. I’m a long-time survival horror nerd...
“I’m often a bit unsure if we really made a horror game at all,” Yuri Stern tells me. Stern is one-half of the German studio rose-engine,...
The recently-revived indie publisher Apogee brought a lot of games with it to this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, including one secret appointment-only title: a...
When I sat down to play Bayonetta 3 behind closed doors during the Penny Arcade Expo, the last thing I expected to think was “This is...
Horror games usually aren’t a lot of fun when you play them on a convention floor. Most of them work off of atmosphere and a sense...
Undying was one of the hidden games of E3 2019, and I mean that in a quite literal sense. It was one of five titles on...
The archetypical investigation in horror is a couple of hollow-eyed, unshaven guys in loosened ties and raggedy trenchcoats, reeking of both inexpensive bourbon and post-traumatic stress....
Thomas Wilde investigates a religious cult in 1970’s South America in his hands-on preview of stealth action game The Church in the Darkness. Usually, when a...
Is this a hit, man? Or is it a party pooper? Find out more in our Party Hard 2 review. I feel like Party Hard 2‘s reach exceeded...
There’s an old joke about the Velvet Underground: not many people ever bought one of their albums, but everyone who did immediately started their own band....
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