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The Happy Tree Friends Get Slaughtered
For those of you that don’t know what The Happy Tree Friends are, it’s an online flash cartoon made by Mondo Mini Shows. Now, as it would sound like a nice happy childrens cartoon, and up front it sure does look like it, it’s nothing of the sort. The Happy Tree Friend get brutally slaughtered in every episode. Well, they decided to make a video game about it. It looks as if the game plays like a cross between Lemmings and Little Big Planet. The Friends are on a set path walking through the current level you’re playing, and it’s up to you in ensure they make it through safely. But just for fun, you can let a few of them get killed along the way, and there are plenty of brutal things to get that job done throughout the game.
“SEGA of America is excited to announce the official release of the adorably horrifying new game for XBLA and PC Download – Happy Tree Friends:False Alarm. Based on Mondo Media’s cult classic cartoon Happy Tree Friends, this new game offers levels and levels of innocent-looking environments filled with dangerously life-threatening pitfalls, booby traps, and low-lying weapons. Play as Lumpy, the fun-loving and accident prone moose – and direct your favorite Happy Tree Friends characters away from a series of heinous death traps by blasting open new paths, threatening them with a deep freeze, or literally throwing a ball of fire under them to get them moving! Using Lumpy’s arsenal of non-life threatening weapons, gamers must ensure his entire twisted team makes it through each level to move onto the next potentially bloody disaster. Featuring 10 exclusive scenarios, 3 potentially catastrophic levels, and an all-new Happy Tree Friends cartoon – this downloadable game will be the gory mess that fans will love to play.”
You can download the game now off of Xbox Live or on the PC.
The discovery of life beyond Earth leads to paranoia and danger for a family in the new trailer for The Outer Threat.
The sci-fi thriller heads to Digital and VOD on July 10, 2026.
In The Outer Threat, “After making a groundbreaking extraterrestrial discovery, astrophysicists Daniel and Michelle are forced to flee from home with their family — pursued through the countryside by a relentless and anonymous assailant. As their flight unfolds, the line between cosmic revelation and human paranoia blurs, leading to a tense and emotional confrontation that challenges the boundaries of understanding, science, and survival.“
The film comes from writer-director William Woods and stars Constance Wu, Mark O’Brien, William Fichtner, Callista Crowe, Isaac Smelcer-Zhang, Oscar Hsu, and Murray Furrow.
Maddy Falle, Albert Shin, and Allison White produce. Executive producers include Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, Tom Spriggs, John Hansen III, Patrick Vipond, Jared Blaichman, Jonah Blaichman, and Randall Okita.
The Outer Threat arrives on the heels of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, circling similar territory. The truth about the existence of aliens leads to danger in the trailer below.