Dread

Metroid Dread was one of the best Nintendo Switch games of 2021, but despite being more than a year old, it's rarely on sale at major retailers. Well, now's your chance to snag a physical copy of Metroid Dread for its best price yet. Amazon is selling the stellar Switch exclusive for only $40 as part of its Black Friday sale. This deal already sold out once, so you'll want to pick it up quickly if interested. Metroid Dread would make for a great gift this holiday, especially at this…

When “Get Out” opened in 2017 and lit the fuse on Jordan Peele’s skyrocketing career as a filmmaker, Steven Spielberg told him: “Michael Abels — that guy is great. You’ve got to use him again. It’s like me and John Williams.”“I’ve been doubling down on that since he said that,” Peele says now.After (literally) doubling the creep factor in “Us,” with the help of composer Abels, Peele tripled down on the collaboration on “Nope” — a film with Spielbergian tendencies and scale.“It was clear that when the film finally gets…

A physical Metroid Dread poster two-pack Welcome back to the ’90s, where everything is holographic! Nintendo is celebrating the launch of Metroid Dread with a new My Nintendo reward, which has become the new norm for first-party games. Given how popular they are on the shop, it’s no surprise that it’s a Metroid Dread poster set. As a two-pack for a whopping 1000 Platinum Points (plus shipping), you can get two holographic foil Metroid Dread poster rewards. Both feature art from the game, including Samus squaring off…

BERLIN —  Kati Pannwitz spends her evenings at home alone in a darkened and unheated apartment, watching old movies while worrying about the new reality of life in a country that is being drawn ever closer to the war in Ukraine. Surging inflation and fears about an energy crisis are hitting home for Pannwitz, 34, taking a heavy toll on her finances and the futures of both her and her 17-year-old son.No more vacations, no more trips abroad, no more going out, no more saving and an outlook that has grown increasingly bleak…

via Indie Rights “There is no such thing as monsters.” These are the words parents often use to reassure their children that there is nothing to be afraid of when the lights go out. Of course, that is not necessarily true, with all matter of human monsters wandering the streets at any given time. For single mother Natalie (Kestie Morassi), that danger has penetrated her walls. It is a macabre spirit: dangerous, unseeing, and one with its eyes on her daughter Taysha (Rose Paxton). Natalie also feels the wrath of…

There was no use hiding from the truth. Somebody had blundered—a fatal blunder—and they were going to pay for it! Mark Forepaugh kicked the pile of hydrogen cylinders. Only a moment ago he had broken the seals—the mendacious seals that certified to the world that the flasks were fully charged. And the flasks were empty! The supply of this precious power gas, which in an emergency should have been sufficient for six years, simply did not exist.Astounding StoriesDare to dream. Dare to go where no other has gone…

Image generators like Stable Diffusion can create what look like real photographs or hand-crafted illustrations depicting just about anything a person can imagine. This is possible thanks to algorithms that learn to associate the properties of a vast collection of images taken from the web and image databases with their associated text labels. Algorithms learn to render new images to match a text prompt in a process that involves adding and removing random noise to an image.Because tools like Stable Diffusion use images…

Image: Kay W.The news keeps coming in tabletop gaming! In anticipation of Internationale Spieltage—also known as SPIEL—games are being announced left and right as publishers ramp up to demo in Germany next week. There’s always a lot happening in the hobby, and this week we’ve got some great mecha games, indie duets, and even a peek inside the process of a talented and emerging young designer.Featured Designer: Kay W.When asked about their game design process for Dread Revolver, Kay W. said to io9 over DMs that this game…

For years, Bristol-based Dread MC has been one of the most respected MCs and hosts in dance music, whether it’s D&B, house music, funky, bassline, garage… he’s always ready to hold down mic duties and keep things nice and lively. This year, however, he’s getting some much-deserved limelight with the release of his own album, Pressure Drop, via LazCru’s revered CruCast outlet.The album drops next Friday, August 19, but ahead of that they’re lifting the lid on a track produced by DJ Q and garage, dubstep and bassline…

I didn’t expect to laugh while playing Time Flies, but I did, out loud on the Summer Game Fest show floor. It’s a deceptively simple game with monochromatic, MS Paint-style visuals and a clear premise: You’re a fly and you have a short time to live a full life in a random house. There are layers to the game’s main goal, as the fly has a bucket list filled with items like “learn an instrument”, “read a book”, “make a friend” and “get drunk.” Each of these tasks is completed in a delightfully surprising way — for instance,…