2025-06-09
Directive 8020’s rewind feature makes play-your-own-survival-horror easier for completionists
Supermassive’s well-regarded interactive survival horror series, the Dark Pictures Anthology, is ready for its second season. Directive 8020 will be its first entry and was available to play in demo form at SGF 2025, even if it was heavily weighted with cutscenes and context-setting preamble.
The demo kicked off with a meeting between Young and Stafford, marking the anniversary of Young’s father's death, who was also a long-time friend of Stafford's – the commander of the space mission that Young is also bound for.
The plot then leaps four years forward, placi [...]
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2025-06-12
Directive 8020's creative director says the game features 'two critical aspects' that change the formula of the Dark Pictures game, including real-time threats and the ability to rewind critical story choices
Supermassive Games has introduced two "critical" changes to Directive 8020 that will affect how players interact with the game's branching narrative. [...]
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Mario Kart World for Switch 2 borrows Forza's rewind feature
More details about Mario Kart World, the big first-party Nintendo Switch 2 launch title, were shown during a dedicated Direct on Thursday. The 17-minute presentation showcased some of the game's [...]
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Look Outside is an unexpected cosmic horror masterpiece that shook me to the core
What kind of person would you be in the face of a disaster that’s beyond explanation? Would you help distressed neighbors and open your home even to sketchy-looking strangers in the hope that thereâ [...]
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Switch 2 will add a rewind function to its online N64 games
On June 5, which is also the Switch 2's launch day, Nintendo is rolling out new features for N64 games on Switch Online. If you just want to play to relax and not worry about in-game lives, the a [...]
2025-06-10
Video Games Weekly: The one that happened while the Waymos burned
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2025-04-30
PlayStation Plus monthly games for May include Balatro and Ark: Survival Ascended
There are some cool games coming to PlayStation Plus in May, including one modern classic. This month’s titles include the universally-beloved Balatro, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and Ark: Survival As [...]
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Bloober Team launches horror publishing label with debut game I Hate This Place
Bloober Team is taking its horror game cred into a new direction with the launch of publisher Broken Mirror Games. This "co-development label" is collaborating with Rock Square Thunder, an i [...]
2025-03-18
Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8
Apple’s iPads get all the headlines, and with good reason: They’ve long been considered the best tablets for most people. But none of them come cheap. For folks on a tighter budget, I’ve spent t [...]