This horror game where you’re a conscious nuclear missile boasts ‘one handed mouse only controls’, leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off

“It’s the year 1963 in a world that replaced computers with human brains,” is how horror game Brainshell describes its setup. “The nuclear arms race has led to a point of no return. Your government uses propaganda, brainwashing and body modifications to create the ultimate weapon: a conscious nuclear missile.” I checked BBC News, looked…

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Dispatch’s character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation ‘as a last resort’, a temporary solution ‘to get us through the pitch phase’, before defining the entire game’s artstyle

As far as Telltale-likes go, Dispatch is one of the prettiest. Lovely animation, some great character designs, and a strong visual artstyle. It might surprise you to find out, then, that the main character and concept artist for Dispatch, Lap Pun Cheung, was picked up on ArtStation as a last resort to get developer AdHoc…

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Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony’s scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that’s why it’s pulling back from PC: ‘It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war’

Our six-year stint of feeling very smug about getting pretty much every game on PC (excluding Nintendo, which will forever be Nintendo about it) came to an end last week, when a report from Bloomberg said that Sony has decided to pull back from its strategy of releasing its console exclusives—after a suitable delay—on PC….

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