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Horror game Outlast gets a more extensive trailer
First-person survival horror game Outlast grabbed our attention recently with a short teaser video which showed its asylum setting and emphasis on the "survival" part of the genre. Today, as promised, there's a four-minute trailer that's more cohesive. While this is real-time, in-engine footage, it's taken from a tech demo and should be treated as such. Hopefully, this is more proof of concept than literal vision of what's to come. While the graphics themselves are perfectly fine, and I think there's a lot of potential from what we know about Outlast so far, developer Red Barrels has some serious work ahead. Granted, the game isn't due out until next year, so there's time. But as we saw earlier with the new Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs trailer, the competition is stepping it up. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
10:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Japanese indie shmup trilogy Tale of Alltynex gets fundedNyu Media has successfully concluded its Kickstarter campaign to localize a trilogy of Japanese indie shoot-'em ups, The Tale of Alltynex, the doujinsoft publisher has announced. Inspired by Taito's RayStorm series, The...
7:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Fight for free this weekend in Chivalry: Medieval WarfareThis weekend until 2:00PM Eastern on Sunday you can play an awesome first-person medieval battle game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for free. Head on over to the Steam page to download it and start playing. If you deci...
3:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Super Splatters will be out on Steam in late JuneSpikySnail Games is targeting a June release on Steam for its enhanced-for-Windows/Mac/Linux Super Splatters. The physics-based puzzler provided a good deal of fun in its original Xbox Live Arcade incarnation, and this new In...
3:00 PM on 05.23.2013 Spot all the new stuff in this Terraria 1.2 preview videoEarly last year, Terraria developer Redigit released a statement that there would be no more major updates to the 2D open-world phenomenon, citing fatherhood as the main reason for moving on. Fortunately for fans of the game...
10:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Raise your badger children in Might and Delight's ShelterLife as a mother badger doesn't strike me as something that would be particularly easy, but conflict sure does make for an interesting story. Pid developer Might and Magic is going where no one to my knowledge has gone befor...
6:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Devs express disappointment with Xbox One over TwitterMicrosoft's Matt Booty affirmed earlier today that digital publishing policies on Xbox One would be no different than they were on Xbox 360. Any hope that Microsoft would right the ship that has inconvenienced a good number o...
12:30 PM on 05.22.2013 Xboned! Indies can't self-publish on Xbox One[Castle Vidcons by Tyler Rhodes] Both Sony and Nintendo are bending over backwards to make their platforms as attractive to indie developers as possible, from waived licensing fees to free patching. Microsoft has been slippin...
11:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Put on your ninja shoes, N v2.0 is playable nowBy now, we've seen the big reveals of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, and I can safely declare a winner: PC. Why? Because just a few days ago, Metanet Software released a huge update to its diabolical ninja platformer N,...
8:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Terry Cavanagh teases new puzzle game Halting ProblemTerry Cavanagh is known for making some of the most brutally difficult, yet immensely satisfying games. VVVVVV showcased some downright masochistic platforming, and Super Hexagon provided twitch gaming that evoked an almost r...
5:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Review: Sanctum 2I think the first Sanctum game surprised a lot of people. It took the intellectual strategy aspect of tower defense games and combined it with the more action-oriented first-person shooter genre to create a unique, wonderful ...
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| 5:00 PM on 03.24.2013 PAX: Outlast gave me a damn good fright |

Demoing a survival horror game or even any game that relies on sound and atmosphere is really hard at a convention. The bright lights and the noise make immersing yourself a struggle, so the guys at Red Barrel were grinning w...more
| 8:00 PM on 10.17.2012 PC-only survival horror title Outlast shows promise |

Even before watching this trailer for Outlast, I was happy on the basis that more independent designers are trying their hand at survival horror. This is currently in development at Montreal-based Red Barrels, a studio made ...more
| 11:00 AM on 05.20.2013 I want to marathon The Last of Us but I'm scared |
I love to play some videogames in a single sitting. Some call that "marathoning." Survival horror games are especially satisfying when played this way. I've done this with all of the Fatal Frame and Silent Hill titl...more
| 2:01 AM on 05.20.2013 Review: Resident Evil Revelations (Wii U) |
Resident Evil Revelations was a great action horror title. So good, it absolutely humiliated Resident Evil 6 by being superior in every single way -- a fact made especially delicious considering it was a 3DS game in contrast ...more
| 1:30 PM on 05.19.2013 Sup Holmes burns bright with Jasper Byrne |
[Update: Full re-run of this episode here.] The last time we had Jasper Byrne on Sup Holmes, he had just released his critically acclaimed survival horror title Lone Survivor. Like his Silent Hill 2 remake Soundless Mountain...more


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