Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (21st June)

Indie shooter devs pull a reverse-Concord: No one played their game, but they ‘make it free to play and keep the servers online indefinitely’ anyway

After around a year and a half in early access, Blindfire—a multiplayer FPS whose main thing is that its arenas are all incredibly dark, forcing you to rely on your other senses (and tech, naturally) to catch enemies—got its full release. Which was something of a bittersweet event for its devs at Double Eleven, who…

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I’m not sure what’s scarier in Bye Sweet Carole, the demonic owl or the fact that it rips apart an integral part of my childhood

I grew up watching films from the aptly named Disney Renaissance—I’m talking The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan—and then got to enjoy some bangers like Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, and Atlantis as I got older, so this style of 2D animation is a pretty formative part of my childhood. So I was ready…

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