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TheSilent Hill 2remake may have dominated much of the October survival horror discourse, butCrow Countryremains an indie gemyou should check out if you haven’t had the chance. Plenty of folks have already, to the tune of 100,000 copies sold. This not-so-macabre milestone comes just a week afterCrow Countymade its debut on Nintendo Switch, and roughly six months after it first launched on Steam. There are still more monetary med kits in store for the folks at SFB Games, too....

Said to be ‘horrified’ by recent events The news about the missing submersible, Titan, which disappeared during a visit to the wreck of the Titanic is on many people’s minds and all over the media. Now, the story has reached the gaming world, as the indie horror titleIron Lunghas seen its sales increase in the wake of the real-world incident. According to developer David Szymanski over onTwitter(viaPC Gamer) there’s been a spike in the amount of units that have sold for the creepy, underwater game....

April 3 Final Fantasy VII Remake arrives on April 10. Can you believe it? The project was originally announced in 2015 and blew the doors off of E3. Since then it’s had a development house change, several delays, and long stretches without any info of any kind. A recent update from Square Enix noted that this is it: it’s sticking to that April 10 date, so there’s no going back now....

It’s good to be king [This post is going to require some audience participation. Mentally hum theJurassic Parktheme while reading this. Orclick this link and listen to it. Blogging is now a transmedia enterprise.] Ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend, Xbox has let us know what we can look forward to for December’s Games with Gold. Get ready for dinosaurs, robots, and vampires. The headliner for this batch of Games with Gold is dinosaur petting zoo simJurassic World Evolution....

$50K is going to EVO 2015 Last week, Iron Galaxy Studios said that for a limited time, it wouldfunnelup to $100,000 in revenue generated by digital sales ofKiller Instinctinto the game’s tournament scene. Players had two weeks to reach that cap but it took them less than 72 hours, according to the studio. Half of the money will contribute toKiller Instinct‘s prize pool atEVOthis July, while the rest will support other fighting game tournaments....

R.I.P. A long time ago, when Hideo Kojima still worked at Konami and the world was ablaze with expectation about an all-newSilent Hillinstalment, Kojima treated us to a briefMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain/P.T.crossover and demonstrated that Snake could use theP.T.ghost Lisa as a decoy. It’s become apparent that this was not the only in-game secret Kojima left. If you head to the huts on the secondMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painmap, you’ll happen across a radio....

June 09, 2025 NintendosaysMario Tennis: Ultra Smashwill release for Wii U on July 21, 2025. (Which, as you might recall, was when we were originally going to getStar Fox Zerobefore it slipped to 2016.) In response, people on Twitter say they don’t care — thatno onecares. Well, I do! My impression ofUltra Smashfrom playing a match at E3 this yearwas positive. The Mega Mushrooms were a chaotic addition and, more importantly, the movement and swinging felt spot on....

Sometime last week I was blathering on about a particular set of indie games, how they boil genres down to their essential cores,blah blah blah. One of the games I cited was Daisuke Amaya’s (Pixel to theladies) immortalCave Story, an independently-developed platformer that doesMetroidbetter thanMetroidoften does. Now thatCave Storyis in the hands ofother talented individuals bringing it to the handheld market, Pixel’s free to work on other projects: namely, his new minimalistic PC shmup,Guxt....

The Walking Deadseems to have been one of the surprises of the year; after the faithful yet uninspiredBack to the Futureseries and the rather badJurrassic Parkgame, it was a pleasant surprise to see gamers respond favorably to the first three episodes ofThe Walking Dead. Now the fourth episode, entitledAround Every Corner, is about to launch on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with the Mac and PC versions to follow soon after....

This threadover at NeoGAF contained the high-res images in the gallery below. The two scans show images from the latest issue ofFamitsucovering the upcomingResident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. While there isn’t a ton of new info, the Japanese text that none of us can read apparently reveals Wesker as an unlockable playable character which, after hisdeath, is a somewhat confusing development. Then again, we’re dealing with a universe in which women fight zombies in mini-skirts and George Romero was crucified, lay in a tomb for three days and rose from the dead to absolve humanity for their sins....

Making ’em count Night in the Woods, the character-centric adventure from Infinite Fall, shows superbly in trailers. Those color choices alone (0:47)! Man.It’s been a good long while since I’ve had a video to pore over, so this one — potentially the last, in light of the title’s impending January 10 release — is a treat. “This thing is jam packed but isn’t even anywhere close to everything in the game,” noted the creators in aKickstarter update....

Nearly everyone agrees that Media Molecule’s upcoming PlayStation 3 gameLittle Big Planetlooks damned cool. But just watching the videos or reading about the game doesn’t really give you a good feel as to just what in the hell the game is truly about. Everyone should have gotten their hands-on the game this fall, when Sony was supposed to release a demo of the game. Santa must hate you, because it ain’t happening....

Squeaky Clean Fun news for everybody who likes to keep things in ship shape — Square Enix Collective has announced that FuturLab ultra-satisfying… shooter(?)PowerWash Simulatoriscurrently preparingto make the world a shinier place on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch platforms. A release date was not announced. Launching on PC in 2021, before making the leap to Xbox earlier this year, PowerWash Simulator tasks players with restoring homes, vehicles, workplaces, and all manner of locales to their former glory, blasting away dirt, grease, and grime with the aid of some supremely soothing jet-wash gear....