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[gebo4482]

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[hardcoregamer]

White Heaven Creeps in with a Teaser Trailer

Set against the backdrop of what the developers describe as a “conflict of primordial powers older than man itself”, White Heaven — from the looks of things — certainly has shades of Amnesia with both The Shining and some other-Worldly lifeforms thrown in for good measure.

Go look!

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/03/23/white-heaven-creeps-in-with-a-teaser-trailer/198969/

[onoviss]

Anna doesn't want that.

[no1phil]

Xbox 360 version of acclaimed Horror game to be released on 23rd of September. An abandoned old sawmill found deep in the dark of the Italian mountains might seem like the home of some terrible horror, but the greatest threat to you there is the one found in the very depths of your mind. Face up to the horrors of your past, as the acclaimed horror puzzle game Anna – Extended Edition is coming to Xbox LIVE® for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft on 23rd of September.

[condemnorcondone]

Atari Reviving 'Alone In The Dark' And 'Haunted House' This Fall

Atari Reviving ‘Alone In The Dark’ And ‘Haunted House’ This Fall

Atari is a company that we, unfortunately, don’t hear much about anymore. Once a huge force in the gaming world, the company has been reduced to a very small number of people that focus on, amongst other things, casino games. They simply haven’t had the software to keep themselves in the game, reducing them to a shell of their former selves.

However, this Fall they will be reviving two of their…

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[steamgameaday]

Anna - Extended Edition (2012-2013)

Genre: Adventure Developer: Dreampainters Price: £7.99

You've been having those dreams again. Not those ones where you're back in high school (except it's not really your high school, but an amalgamation of every TV or movie high school ever) and you're naked for some strange reason, but the ones about the old abandoned sawmill and the young woman you were supposed to forget. Now you find yourself at the front door of that exact same sawmill and... goddamnit, the door's locked. But there's half a cog under the rockery and I can see the other half up above the door, now if I can just pick this up and use this with this...

Yes, as you have probably worked out by now (or indeed, you actually read the first three lines of each post) Anna is an adventure game, and not that different from the point and click adventures of old, but in a first-person perspective. You play as an unnamed individual wandering around a haunted building solving a series of inventory puzzles in an attempt to unravel the mystery of what happened there, and who the mysterious woman who you keep seeing in your dreams actually is.

Unfortunately in many ways Anna is a good example of why there are so few first person adventure games; the pixel hunting of older adventure games is often bad enough, but at least that's limited to content in two dimensions; instead Anna has players scrabbling around in darkness looking for items in a small haunted house, taking all of the having to check over absolutely everything of other entries into the genre and applying them into larger and more sparsely laid out environments. It also expects you to do this whilst the environment around you descends into utter supernatural chaos; walls change texture, the layout of rooms deforms and things start getting incredibly weird.

Which isn't to say that it's not a good game. Quite the contrary, in fact. As a horror experience, Anna is pretty much top notch. It creates atmosphere in a manner reminiscent of Amnesia, and has a mix of sudden, unexpected jump scares and horrendously thought out scares that take more than a few moments of horrendous realisation before hitting you with the big one. As an adventure game, it's considerably less so, but if you can get your wits about you (or at least learn to save on a regular basis), it provides some particularly nifty and interesting puzzles, albeit with very little to drive you to solve them other than the mere fact that they're there.

It's a little weird, wonderfully spooky and rather well designed, but it's by far a much better horror than it is an adventure. Still, Anna is an interesting experiment into an unusual combination of genres and mechanics, and one that for the mostpart provides an interesting mix of discovery and outright terror.

How long did I play? - 3.2 hoursDid I finish it? -  No Would I finish it? - Yes

[ohheysuspcat]

about 25min into this game and i'm just like nope. nope nope nope. i can't.

[inspirational-places]

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