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More Creepiness Coming Your Way: Among the Sleep Gets Kickstarted

05/15/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Headlines, News

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again; it’s a great year for horror. You can add another entry to that list of announced titles as Among the Sleep, a survival horror game from the perspective of a young child has surpassed it’s goal of $200,000.00. This means that Krillbite Studios, the developers behind the title can stop messing around and start focusing on reminding us why childhood was so darn frightening. I’m excited about this game because the [...]

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Video Reflex Review: I Thought I Knew You

01/23/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Reflex, Reviews

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a re-imagining of classic Mario-clone The Great Giana Sisters. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise, Black Forest Games ran a successful Kickstarter in June of ’12 to create this new entry. The Machinae Supremacy soundtrack may own bones, but will that be enough to get Justin through some questionable level design and his lack of platforming skills? Join Josh in heckling him in this hot ‘n fresh Reflex Review! This video is intended for [...]

Horrible Newswire: Need for Constant Reassurance

Not much is clear in December in the gaming industry, at least until the awards come out. Until then, it’s filled with a lot of reflection and predictions and last minute shuffling for the next quarter of releases. The weirdest thing? The VGA’s turned out to be watchable this year. Predict that. Ethan continued to blow through his game queue and caused more than a few explosions in Far Cry 3, while the SGBF’s tried to make sense of the [...]

Tiny Barbarian DX Interview with Michael Stearns – The Cursed Checkpoint #129

12/07/2012
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by Ethan Moses in: Podcasts, The Cursed Checkpoint

Tiny Barbarian DX is an action platformer made with a serving of retro gaming respect and a dollop of Conan the Barbarian. Ethan Moses speaks with creator Michael Stearns about the game, indie game development, and his views on Kickstarter/Greenlight. The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game podcast focused on discussions and interviews about a single video game, genre, news headline, or industry story. It features a rotating cast of up to 3 members of the Horrible Night writing staff [...]

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden Sequel Gets Funded Super Fast

11/30/2012
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by Ethan Moses in: Headlines, News

If you thought the Hoopz Barkely saga could be contained to one game, you’re both sadly mistaken and incredibly stupid…this beast is a multi-parter. For those that have no idea what I’m talking about, Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden was a game about Charles Barkley surviving in a cyberpocalypse while trying to clear his name for a horrific crime he didn’t commit. That game, an RPG developed by Tales of Games, now has an action RPG sequel in the works called [...]

Horrible Newswire: Clever Nickname Day of the Week

Two things mattered last week, last minute reviews, and sales. Hope you made some wise decisions while we were in recovery mode during a short holiday week. Last Week’s Headlines Hitman: Absolution is the latest more-sequel Star Citizen breaks Kickstarter’s gaming record Planetside 2 has launched Adventure Time knows its audience ZombiU just asks you to survive Far Cry 3 still wants a place in your 2012 game queue Impressive Zelda history book available for preorder Kids want iPads over [...]

Horrible Newswire: They’re Everywhere

There are too many games to sort through and now we also have to juggle DLC and more HD remakes. It’s tough and awesome (tawesome? awesough?) to be a gamer in the fall. But then this is also the time of year where weird stuff happens like random appearances of strip Halo in your wife’s TV shows. Last Week’s Headlines Borderlands 2 already has DLC with Pirate Booty Mechwarrior Online has made $5 million already, but the open beta has [...]

Obsidian Sets Kickstarter Funding Record with Project Eternity

10/18/2012
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by Justin Lacey in: Headlines, News

People apparently love their isometric RPG’s because Obsidian just reset the Kickstarter records in raising $3.98 million for its upcoming Project Eternity. Inspired by the likes of Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment, Project Eternity promises a rich world for questing and real-time tactical party combat with a pause system. Obsidian’s pedigree cannot be denied with team members responsible for creating the aforementioned Icewind Dale series and Planescape: Torment, and, oh yeah, the original Fallout and Fallout 2. Project Eternity [...]

Radio Waves for 10/12/12

10/12/2012
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by Aaron McNeal in: Editorials

It’s a big release week for games. Even the people under rocks know that games came out this week and people want them. There’s quite a variety as the releases range from alien-domination sims to 8-bit retro action. Also Pokemon, but maybe that’s just my thing. Until my self-started husky-drawn taco delivery wagon idea becomes reality, I had to pick and choose carefully. At with that, let’s hurry up and do some Radio Waves so I can get back to [...]

Radio Waves for 9/7/12

09/07/2012
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by Aaron McNeal in: Editorials

As fall approaches and the avalanche of holiday releases hope to hit our favorite aging consoles, I like to open a few more cold ones with my pal Summertime and remember about all the things we accomplished in the past three months. We finished a lot of video games, we drank a lot of cold ones… we… didn’t finish some other video games? Wow, Summertime. There was mostly a lot of gaming. I think you triggered my allergies and there [...]