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 full remaster of the landmark 1995 first-person shooter, Rise of the Triad. The first thing I said, which was apparently a common reaction, is “Again?” Rise of the Triad […]
Not to be outdone by the previous announcements at Realms Deep 2022, DreadXP’s recently-acquired upcoming Survival Horror title Mirror Forge has a new demo for you to check out. This new Mirror Forge demo is the same one that was featured at both PAX West and Gamescom, so if you missed out on those events, […]
So, the reveal trailer for Jaw Drop Games’ Deathground got you going for a return of Dino Crisis-eque panic horror. But, you still want to see more of the gameplay, you say. Not to worry, as Jaw Drop have released a short-but-terrifyingly-sweet gameplay teaser for Deathground. Now obviously, things do look a little rough. Adam […]
We’ve covered a bunch of horror games that have come up through indie site itch.io in recent years, and pretty much every time we do, it’s something refreshingly different to the usual horror offerings in modern gaming. It might be something experimental, it might be an ingenious take on a beloved genre icon, or it […]
Admittedly, Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky isn’t quite horror all the way, but in the latest update, there’s certainly cause for it. Not only do you get to scavenge haunted wreckages of derelict freighters, you also get to battle some alien infestations. And yes, just like Aliens, you can also get a mech suit. The […]
Kalypso Media and Palindrome have released their third developer diary for their upcoming Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars, which continues to explore the title’s unique gameplay fusion of empire management and strategic turn-based combat. This third featurette details the overworld-esque ‘Kingdom Mode’ and microcosmic ‘Battle Mode’, in which players will amass then pit their armies against […]
Google honestly hasn’t had the best launch to its Stadia service, but they’re certainly not giving up. Announced today during the Stadia Connect event are two more additions to the service in Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight and FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Both titles will make their Stadia debuts this Fall, with Dead By […]
With communities still the grips of the global Coronavirus pandemic, along with the various quarantine measures, people are starting to feel something that seems downright alien to them. For many, it feels like something out of a movie or video game. For some gamers, the series that comes to mind is Silent Hill. The Silent […]
Back in 2018, the complicated legal issues that are still plaguing the entire Friday the 13th franchise claimed Gun Media’s Friday the 13th: The Game as a victim, ensuring that new content will probably never again be added to the game. But while the developers cannot currently add anything new into it, they’re still fixing bugs and […]
Few things in games are as interesting to me as those that take me into the strange and surreal. Games that exploit the strength of the medium by playing with player expectations and presenting genuinely different perspectives. Metamorphosis, a loose adaptation of the 105-year-old Franz Kafka novella The Metamorphosis, is one such game. Kafka’s story […]