The Dark Pictures developer Supermassive has seemingly registered five new trademarks related to the horror anthology series. As first spotted earlier today via Twitter, Supermassive Games has registered five new trademarks with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. All five of these new trademarks are explicitly linked to the Dark …
Read More »Dark Pictures studio Supermassive is hiring for an unannounced multiplayer game
The Dark Pictures Anthology and Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games is hiring for an unannounced multiplayer project. Over on the studio’s careers page (opens in new tab), there’s a listing for multiplayer game designer calling for applicants with experience developing multiplayer rules, combat systems, progression, and tutorial systems. “You will …
Read More »Creativity and risk are driving modern horror games – but where does the genre go next?
The room shifts ever so slightly to the right, back to centre, then left and back again. Lightbulbs flicker above, then pop like bubble wrap. A child’s xylophone plays a looping, unsettling melody against the omnipresent purr of a ship’s engine somewhere in the distance. You ease tentatively down the …
Read More »The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes review – “lackluster military versus monsters soap opera”
The final act of The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes is what you want horror games to be, a mad casserole of monsters and weird science and tension. The problem is, your patience might not survive the long, often surprisingly dull trudge to get to it. House of Ashes …
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