Review
SOMA finds the horror inherent in glitch art
The hell of malfunctioning machinery in SOMA
amnesia
News
Sci-fi horror game SOMA’s newest trailer will leave you feeling alone and afraid
Sci-fi survival horror game SOMA wants to mess with your head in every way imaginable. Set in a remote underwater research facility doing some wacky shit with robots and artificial intelligence, the player must survive the aftermath of its collapse into chaos. While recalling visuals from BioShock‘s
News
Stray Cat Crossing will spirit you away and into a nightmare
Like watching Disney movies during a bad trip Can’t sleep, baby’ll eat me Who said cartoons are just for kids? Welcome to Disney’s Midnight Channel It’s like Zelda, but…I need an adult
Article
SOMA and the horror of perception
The “fantastical anuses” (among other things) of SOMA.
News
Prepare to question unreality with SOMA’s machine-horror on September 22nd
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick Humanity’s centuries-old attempt to understand our own consciousness, from philosophy to biology, can basically be summed up by one single image: a dog trying to chase its own tail. From Descartes’s declaration
News
Horror games should be intentionally un-fun, says horror game designer
Videogames are stuffed to the brim with “fun” little feedback loops, like level-maxing and crossbow upgrades and loot-a-thons. But according to Thomas Grip, author of some of the most hair-raising horror games around, such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the anticipated SOMA, those delicious system
News
Amnesia’s Thomas Grip: "Right now we’re sort of in the slasher horror genre in games."
Horror games are currently in a rut with their slasher film mentality says Thomas Grip, designer of games that chickens like me stay far, far away from. Speaking with Rock, Paper, Shotgun about his upcoming title SOMA, he explained that scary games have yet to evolve from gory, cheap scares into a m
Article
How Runemaster aims to turn Swedish folklore into the most emergent RPG ever
“We are going to have make a shit-ton of content.”
Interview
Videogames enter the post-WASD era
In praise of walking and looking.
Interview
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs writer Dan Pinchbeck talks about horror, genocide, and the scene so disgusting he had to cut it
Dan Pinchbeck pushed into dark psychological territory with Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, crafting a protagonist whose moral compromises reflect real horrors.
Review
Remember Me forgets what it’s for
The road to hell is paved with good intentions—and Neo-Parisian cyberpunk
News
Channeling Christopher Nolan, Ether One promises to fix our broken memories
Back in September 2011, two lads out of Manchester founded a small development studio named White Paper Games. The chosen logo was an origami crane, an apt symbol of what kind of games they aspired to make: aesthetically graceful objects, made from familiar material, twisted into thoughtful, complex