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Celebrate Binding of Isaac: Rebirth’s release date with this horrifying, NSFW trailer

The religious roguelike Binding of Isaac has been remade and expanded into Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, and it’ll be out on November 4 for Steam, PS4, and PS Vita. In an interview we conducted with Team Meat designer Edmund McMillen, McMillen mentioned that he “was fucking positive that Isaac would not do well” when it first came out. Well, it’s been so successful that it now demands more levels, more enemies, up to 400 hours of gameplay and even local co-op, so you and a friend can explore the depths of a horrific nightmare together. The expansion, developed by Edmund McMillen…
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Path to Thalamus explores the tragedy of a comatose mind

Few things seem more maddening than being trapped inside your own mind. As revealed on an episode of Radiolab a few years back, coma patients often aren’t left in just blank unconscious like we imagine them to be. In the case of Emilie Gossiaux, who suffered a deadly collision with an 18-wheeler, she found herself in a netherworld of fear, hostility, and darkness. Through a miracle, she sometimes managed to communicate through this netherworld to the loved ones around her. She’d ask them to “pull her out of the wall” and begged them to help her escape the hostile dark…
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In the sci-fi mystery game Cloud Chamber, your co-op partner is the entire internet

Found footage style storytelling like Blair Witch Project compels horror movie audiences for obvious reasons. Unlike regular film experiences, found footage supposedly has no author. With no one telling the story, the audience almost begins to feel as though they themselves are the ones responsible for authoring and solving the ghoulish mystery. This is part of the reason why most found footage horror films leave lore and details pretty vague, inviting us to think up our own. So we scour the footage like detectives, eyes pealed for any anomalies or missed hints, brains buzzing with potential answers. Cloud Chamber takes…
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Crawl eyes an August 6th release date

Learning that Crawl is only a little bit more than a week away from hitting early access may not do much for you, initially. Understandable. It’s been a while since this local multiplayer game been on the radar. To jog your memory, Crawl looks like some sort of variation of tag set in hell. One player is human and the others play murderous ghosts jostling to deliver the killing blow onto the mortal so that they may, in turn, become human. Ghosts can posses monsters and traps, constantly switching to get a leg up on the human player, yes, but on…
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SteamBoy, the illegitimate lovechild of Steam and a Game Boy

While we were in our post-E3 stupor, a dev group went and announced a rather miraculous handheld system that plays Steam games. Due out in 2015, the SteamBoy, as the portmanteau suggests, combines the awesome library of Valve’s popular digital download platform with the play-it-anywhere-ability of a Game Boy. This sounds a little hard to believe considering that a powerful gaming PC would have to be shrunk down to fit in the palms of your hands, but apparently this can be done, to an extent.  You’re probably thinking that DOTA 2 would surely be terrible on a modified Steam Controller…