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Modern survival horror sits in the shadow of Resident Evil, but Capcom’s zombie classic didn’t spring fully formed outta nowhere. Alone in the Dark is arguably the foundation of the genre’s history, and with that in mind it seems appropriate that GOG is celebrating two years of renewed focus on preservation with a giveaway of the trilogy that kicked off uncountable nightmares.A trilogy collection featuring Alone in the Dark 1, 2, and 3 is currently available for free on GOG. Head over to the store page, claim the giveaway, and the titles will be added to your library forever. While…
The enormous Nioh 3 demo has impressed me in multiple ways so far, and one of the nicest additions to the Soulslike formula comes in the form of a tiny little button in the level-up menu: with no fuss, you can instantly use enough banked XP items to reach the threshold for your next level.I can’t say with total certainty that this is the first Soulslike to ever add this feature, but I live in this genre and it’s the first time I’ve ever seen it. And boy is it nice. It’s like when Lies of P helped normalize colored…
At least one thing in the world is at peace: the oil and water of Christophe Gans’ Return to Silent Hill and the new Iron Lung adaptation directed by YouTuber Markiplier has seemingly brought video game movies to a state of total equilibrium. Return to Silent Hill is, regrettably, a box office disaster, while Iron Lung made so much money on its opening night, not even its creator could believe it.Developer David Szymanski writes on Twitter, “What the fuck.” According to Variety, Iron Lung nearly tripled Markiplier’s self-funded $3 million budget in one night, earning $8.9 million on January 30.The…
Whether you’re a hardened, embattled League of Legends player or a hardcore Europa Universalis enthusiast, sometimes you just need a little bit of cozy. City Tales scratches that itch, with its cartoon aesthetic and more relaxed approach to strategy giving you the Manor Lords experience without the grit. Perhaps the most exciting addition for me is the new Fluffy Companions DLC. Yes, you can now own another virtual pupper: congratulations! If you’re unfamiliar with City Tales, the premise is pretty simple. You build your own medieval hamlet, watch it grow, and manage your people. With nine skilled companions to help…
If it were a person, Marathon seems like it would spend the most time out of its house after 1AM. Its characters wear chunky, neon helmets that make them look like grasshoppers at Coachella, and its official music is all electronica that would sound better in a humid basement, because, according to Bungie global franchise director Philip Asher, the upcoming extraction shooter is largely influenced by late ’90s debauchery.He says so in a Twitter exchange with Michael Douse, publishing director at Larian, which is currently working on Divinity. That series is more concerned with the kind of debauchery that happened…
It’s hard to imagine a time when Minecraft, a sandbox game that now features crossover content with Star Wars and Hello Kitty, or offers ‘happy Ghasts’ as a mob, was scary. I remember back when I was 11 playing it on an old PC with fog covering the in-game map, where broken world generation wasn’t a bug but a leftover artifact of whoever came before me. It was deeply creepy in a way that no horror mod can ever truly replicate. I had an unreal fear of encountering Herobrine, as the Minecraft forums would scatter the name and heighten the…
New horror movie Whistle may give the Final Destination franchise a run for its money when it comes to elaborate death scenes, but it’s not all blood and guts. So much so in fact, director Corin Hardy describes the scary flick as The Ring meets The Breakfast Club, as it sneaks a genuinely heart-warming romance in amongst all the gooey, gory terror.Written by Owen Egerton (Mercy Black), it follows Chrys (Marvel’s Dafne Keen), as she moves in with her cousin following the death of her father. It doesn’t take long for her to catch the attention of sweet student Ellie…
If you could book a flight to anywhere in the world, where would you go? Now expand that to anywhere in your imagination. I’d choose Rivendell. I can’t imagine how restorative it would be to just go and chill with Elrond and his mates on a weekend, the stresses of the working week fading into obscurity as you dine on fine cuisine and listen to gentle lyre-music. Well, you can do that now. Kind of. Hit transport sim-slash-strategy game Worldwide Rush has added mod support in its latest update, and it’s only a matter of time before someone adds my…
When former Bethesda dev and Skyrim lead Bruce Nesmith said, in so many words, that Morrowind is outdated and Skyrim is refreshingly streamlined, I don’t think he meant to ignite a feud within the fandom of one of the most beloved RPG series in video games, but boy has he. Recent comments on the direction of the series – from, let’s be clear, a veteran designer with clear respect for the IP – stoked fierce defense of what The Elder Scrolls has been in the past, and underneath some dramatic reactions is an interesting design discussion.Nesmith told Press Box that…
Team Fortress 2 Classified is out now on Steam, the mod having finally earned Valve’s blessing after a bit of a tizzy with its former name of Team Fortress 2 Classic. That makes it an easy one-click job to install, assuming you have the original TF2 installed, and it’s a fine piece of modding work in general: inspired by the shooter’s past without being beholden to nostalgia, while expanding itself with restored modes and weapons that Valve left on the cutting room floor. Wisely, Team Fortress 2 Classified doesn’t drag itself all the way back to TF2’s very earliest days,…