The Chinese Room is in a hard way right now. The Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture developer holds a spot in video game history for being one of the earliest and most well-known creators of the "walking simulator." B...
Dear Esther Live, off the back of its performance at The London Game Festival and The Barbican, will be touring the U.K. at the end of the year.The show features a playthrough of the game by freelance writer Thomas McMullen, with indicative...
As I finished Dear Esther, I felt nothing. There was no sense of revelation or tinge of intrigue. I wasn't sad nor happy nor content. I felt no emotion at all. I wasn't moved in the least, which is ironic given all that walking. This is pro...
The granddad of all walking simulators, Dear Easther, is finally stepping onto consoles. Titled Dear Esther: Landmark Edition, this new port will feature "updated" graphics and gameplay along with a brand new commentary mode. This new ...
BAFTA-winning developer, The Chinese Room, has accused CD Projekt Red of making sexist games. Responding to tweet about CD Projekt’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 (via NeoGAF), Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture developer said that the n...
I've made no secret of my love for The Chinese Room's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Steven wasn't a huge fan of it in his review, but I gave it my personal game of the year award last year. I've also been following pretty closely the va...
Well, it finally happened. The Chinese Room and Sony have, at last, officially confirmed that the (now former) PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture will be heading to PC. In an email sent to Destructoid, The Chinese Room says...
The PS4 exclusive, and my personal game of the year last year, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, has popped up in the patch notes for the latest AMD PC graphics card drivers. Strange…
Developer The Chinese Room's (Dear Esther) last two projects were Everybody's Gone to Rapture, published by Sony (possibly coming to PC soon), and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, a follow up to The Dark Descent. The next game from the develope...
The British Writers’ Guild Awards is an annual event where the best of British writing across TV, film, radio, stage, and video games are acknowledged and celebrated. For those in the industry, it’s a fairly big deal. This year,...
My 2015 Game of the Year was The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. It’s a beautiful game with a fantastic story, and easily the best soundtrack a game has had in a very in a long time. And now the chances of ...
Plenty of people didn’t for various reasons, but I absolutely loved pretty much every second of The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. One of the key things that made my time with that game so enjoyable was Je...
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture wouldn't end. I was lost in the middle of the 1984 English countryside having made my circuit trudging through several connected areas, yet suddenly I was back somewhere in the middle. Without the markers and...
I haven't started Everybody's Gone to the Rapture yet, but if I had, I'd probably be among the people wondering why such an exploration-heavy game doesn't let players sprint. It does, though -- hold down R2 for a few seconds to build up you...
I've been following Everybody's Gone to the Rapture on and off for years. It's slotted away in my memory as "that exploration game from the Dear Esther people about the surprisingly serene end of the world as seen from an English countrysid...
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, a first-person exploration game from Dear Esther developer The Chinese Room, will be coming to PlayStation 4 on August 11, according to creative director Dan Pinchbeck. "We look back now at the number o...
The Chinese can take gaming very seriously. So seriously in fact that they have created an entire industry revolved around keeping lonely gamers happy while grinding away in their virtual wastelands. While in places like America we are rele...
The Chinese Room and Sony Santa Monica let out a quick trailer for their PlayStation 4 title Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and, oh, it's over already? Okay. But there's more to go on. It's June 1984 and, unfortunately, the world is comin...
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs was a drastic departure from the much loved survival horror darling Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Its writer, Dan Pinchbeck, recently spoke with Kill Screen about the bizarre sequel and some things that were left ou...
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a beloved title for a number of reasons. As well as becoming a viral darling thanks to a cavalcade of shrieking YouTube videos, Dark Descent was praised for bringing back a sense of true survival horror at a tim...
It's time for another playthrough from your best buddy Jim Sterling! This time we're having an early look at Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, the upcoming horror game from The Chinese Room. Don't expect screaming and yelling -- there are...
How did a company like Bluepoint Games, whose catalogue is almost entirely made of ports, get this level of 3d artists working for them? Shadow of Colossus was already stunning on the ps4, but Demon Souls is some next level
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Wasteland 3 is a blast - but oh my god, I am moving at a glacial Some brick wall fights are actually my doing (San Luxe Apartment fight) but paired with long load times and a FUCKING ATROCIOUS crash rate it can be
One of the main things Im worried about with Halo Infinite is the extent of its online GaaS For instance, 343 have seemingly cribbed Destinys shader Microtransactions for Halo Infinites
One of the reasons I prefer physical
2 2 smol weeks until we FINALLY get Knack to run at 60fps!!!
Crunch is never a necessity and almost always a failure of project Real shitty that its so prevalent in video games Nobody should be working 100 hour shifts a week just for a video
Been seeing a lot of hate (not on dtoid) for cloud gaming on I dont get If it works well its a great option to get more great games to Sure, you dont own it, but you know that going Thoughts?
