I’ll level with you, folks: I’ve never sat down and pondered the precise number of ways my head could be minced, mangled, and maimed, and that’s probably why no one is ringing my phone off the hook to come work on Killing Floor 3.

The devs love their gore, you see. You can tell because a new documentary cut from PCG (that’s us!) and Tripwire—alongside talk about influences, approach, and philosophy—details KF3’s evolution on the studio’s Massive Evisceration And Trauma tech.

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In 2018, Firaxis announced that the Cree Nation was being added to Civilization 6, a move that did not sit well with the leader of the real-world Poundmaker Cree Nation, who said the game’s portrayal of Indigenous people is “very harmful.” To help avoid that kind of misstep in the next game, the studio established a partnership with the Shawnee Nation to ensure a proper and accurate portrayal of its famous leader Tecumseh.

Firaxis was warned against adding Tecumseh to Civ 7 by academics, according to a new AP report (via Game Developer), so Civ 6 writer and historian Andrew Johnson recommended the studio reach out directly to the Shawnee tribe instead. It turns out that Shawnee Chief Ben Barnes is a big fan of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, and he was enthusiastic about the proposition.

I don’t envy Bloober Team. Nobody actually wants the difficult task of updating something as nuanced, emotionally sensitive, and revered as Silent Hill 2. The original has been praised for decades, and picked apart by fans eager to understand every last detail for just as long. It’s a game where every strange texture and odd room decoration means something, the game’s unforgettable atmosphere held together by the finest of threads. 

This modern remake of that legendary tale gets off to a great start, offering an extensive range of graphical settings and accessibility options. It doesn’t take long to tweak the game into a smoothly running raytraced beauty, or to adjust the controls and their behaviour so they’re just the way I like them. A personal favourite is the option to swap the standard ‘mash to get monsters off me’ action for a simple button hold instead—a small gesture that allowed me to concentrate on the horrors around me instead of being distracted by an aching thumb. 

Those horrors look impressively familiar, even decades removed from the game’s PlayStation 2 debut. The rust-covered hellscapes, the signage, the glistening sacks of flesh scuttling past locked-up homes tumbling into the abyss—it’s easy to believe Silent Hill 2 always looked this good, but that illusion takes a lot of hard work.

With the 10th anniversary of the sci-fi horror masterwork Alien: Isolation upon us, creative director Al Hope has announced that the sequel fans have been pining for is finally going to happen.

“When we started developing Alien: Isolation, we had one guiding principle: To create a truly authentic experience that went back to the roots of the Alien franchise—a new story capturing the atmosphere and terror of the original 1979 movie masterpiece,” Hope wrote. 

“It’s been nothing short of incredible to witness your passion for the game over the years and see it reach so many players around the world. Your boundless enthusiasm, excitement, screams (!) and steely courage in the face of cinema’s greatest killer, have been profoundly rewarding.”

Creative Assembly did indeed nail it with Alien: Isolation. We called it “the game the Alien series has always deserved” in our 93% review, “A deep, fun stealth game set in an evocatively realised sci-fi world.”