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First-person toddler-crawler Among the Sleep to terrify grown men and women May 29

Among the Sleep, a pioneer in the first-person baby horror gen, is going to make you feel all weak and vulnerable very, very soon. The spooky game about a small child who escapes the crib to discover a fairyland hell is coming to Steam on May 29. When I played an early demo of the game last year, I found the experience entirely unnerving, despite the fact that I was playing in a crowded coffee shop in full daylight sipping a warm latte topped with cutesy latte art. There were so many weird and disturbing things going on in the…
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There are more ways to play DayZ than psychopath, apparently

This is the revelation I gained from the DayZ Character Dice Game Remix, a personality-rolling meta-game you play prior to logging in, with the numbers from your dice assigning you a specific mentality.  Created by Reddit-users Conn3ct3d and Wingthree, the game casts you as either a hero, good guy, bad guy, survivor, crazy person, or psychopath accordingly. For those of us who only know of the ruthless survival game through hearsay, it shines a light on the strange psychology that exists within. For example, one role you can roll is “go[ing] around breaking peoples’ legs to make friends that can’t…