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The closest I’ve ever been to getting scared in a Star Wars game was probably wandering around the Haunted Hovel in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, but even then, the creepiest thing to happen was a quick sighting of the strange C-P30 doppelganger Nobot. Star Wars has never stuck out as the sort of […]

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. At a glance Hamlet looks like just another dungeon crawler to add to the already enormous ’90s pile. There’s the screen-clogging UI. There’s the crude first-person view. There’s […]

The co-op horror game Content Warning made a pretty big impression when it was released around a month ago. Landfall decided to make it free to download for the first 24 hours only, which brought in around 6.6 million users who then spent a great deal of time trying to film viral videos in the […]

Lethal Company’s latest update, v50, was released over the weekend, so you can jump back into your crummy little spaceship and check out all the new changes for yourself. We already knew that this update included new moons, monsters, and even a change to your running speed, but now that v50 is out, the developer, […]

 There’s nothing quite like risking your own life along with all your friends for a couple of views and maybe even a follow. During my team’s many expeditions to the old world, we’ve figured out a winning formula for views: catchy intro, someone dying on camera, plenty of screaming, and if we have time and […]

I imagine all game developers get butterflies in their stomachs when they’re about to push their game live, but it’s not often a game previously given away for free suddenly starts asking for money. That was the deal indie studio Landfall made with players when it surprise-released Content Warning on April Fools’ day. The Lethal […]

After last year’s well-received Dead Space remake, one might’ve expected EA to put a team at developer Motive on a remake of Dead Space 2. It doesn’t look like that’s happening, though, because EA announced this week that the Dead Space remake’s leads are now gathering a team to work on the Battlefield series.  Another […]

We can speculate about why there are a lot of horror games nowadays, versus barely none at all about 10 years ago. Maybe horror games are less expensive to make and thus more viable for smaller developers, especially when the unheimlich effect of early 3D graphics is so suited to the genre, not to mention […]

Some videogames are obvious candidates for big-screen translations, and some are not. The fishing-horror game Dredge, I think, falls into the latter category, but guess what? A Variety report says a movie based on Dredge is now in the works. It’s not that Dredge isn’t a good game. It is in fact very good. We […]

A plan to bring the not-quite-dead asymmetrical survival joint Friday the 13th: The Game back to life has been abandoned just days after it was announced thanks to a cease-and-desist letter accusing the project of “cavalier disregard of copyright law.” The axe first fell on Friday the 13th: The Game way back in 2018 thanks […]

The recent version 50 update for Lethal Company certainly has players divided, thanks to how grueling singleplayer games have become. But if we can agree on one thing, I think it would be that the new entity called the Butler is probably the best-dressed killer across the alien moons.  Appearing on Mansion maps, the Butler […]

Just a day after promising they were working on it, the Content Warning team has released a patch that fixes a handful of bugs and adds three new items: reporter mics, party poppers, and a sound player. The patch announcement came via an in-game video clip that looks like it was done with minimal preparation—and […]

It’s only been a couple of days since the co-op horror game Content Warning was released to a pretty impressive reception, but it’s still managed to rack up more than 204,000 concurrents and 6.2 million players, many of whom snagged the game for free during its first 24 hours on Steam. I was one of […]

Lethal Company’s first major update, version 50, is playable in beta form and players are discovering how much worse space treasure hunting could be with deadly new monsters and a major nerf to a popular movement mechanic. Solo developer Zeekerss hasn’t released official patch notes, but said the update isn’t fully finished. They even admitted […]

Content Warning, a co-op horror game in which you and your friends go viral or die trying, made an immediate splash when it launched on Steam on April 1. To an extent, that was unsurprising—it was free for the first 24 hours of release—but I don’t think many people foresaw that it would go quite […]

We just had yet another look at the Beira D oil rig in Still Wakes the Deep during a digital ID Xbox showcase. This time, instead of just showing the silent aftermath of an attack, the protagonist Caz and his best bud Roy made a short appearance, along with some melted and stretched human flesh.  […]

The best April Fools jokes, in my book, are the ones you can play. Landfall, the studio behind Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, is arguably the king of the gag game, with past playable goofs including PUBG parody Totally Accurate Battlegrounds and horse drifting racer Knightfall. For 2024, faux Lethal Company is on the menu with […]