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It took me maybe 10 seconds to fall in love with Schim This indie game about jumping from shadow to shadow is interactive modern art. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Sometimes you just know. You know what I mean? You open a new game, press a button or two, and it’s clear as day: This one’s special. That’s how I felt when I sat down to playSchimat last weekend’s Summer Game Fest demo event....

Lost Japanese adventure game from 1999 resurfaces on Steam, and it’s so weird I can’t describe it in a headline Disturbing, surreal Garage: Bad Dream Adventure has never been available in English before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I’ll kick off with a notice that some of what you’re about to see is decidedlyNSFW. It’s for adults. In the 1990s, Japanese surrealist artist Tomomi Sakuba realized that he could make a game with the free HyperCard software on his Mac....

Madcap modders have ported PS2 platformer Jak and Daxter to PC Not emulation: it’s a fully reverse-engineered, actual port. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Emulation is impressive work, often the only route to preserving games, but in recent years some skilled programmers have started tackling full-on decompilations of classic games so that they can be studied and played on newer hardware....

Marvel’s next Midnight Sons comic looks a bit more like the Midnight Suns videogame Wolverine’s on another team. He must be up to like 50 now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Marvel’s Midnight Sunsis a tactics-RPG being developed by XCOM studio Firaxis (who have called it"the complete opposite" of XCOM 2, I should note), which stars various Marvel superheroes alongside a player-made character called the Hunter....

Please don’t change anything for Dragon’s Dogma 2 If a sequel is coming, all I want is more of the same. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. It’s official!Dragon’s Dogma 2 is on the way. Here’s what we’re hoping to see in the sequel. Sequels are meant to be innovative, allegedly, justifying their existence with big new features that’ll make you forget all about its predecessor....

Signalis is a brutally stunning slice of sci-fi survival horror A chilling demo just debuted as part of Steam Next Fest. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Like a forgotten Cold War numbers station, Signalis has hummed quietly and ominously in the back of my head for some time now. It’s been two years since Ifirst caught it on RPS, and longer still since developer rose-engine first broadcast itsunsettling, anime-tinted teaser....

Six no-shows we hoped we’d see at this year’s not-E3 There’s always next year right? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Now the dust has settled, we can take stock of not-E3. The next year of gaming is shaping up to be pretty exciting, especially for fans ofsci-fi horrorandfrogs, but there were some no shows that made us a little sad....