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How Moons of Madness Creates Fear on Multiple Levels

A good psychological horror game should have scares that linger long after you’ve put down your controller. Eerie sounds, lighting, and well-placed jump scares all contribute to creating this kind of a memorable experience, but for Moons of Madness we have also used several other methods to create a unique and terrifying atmosphere. The Red Planet First and foremost, we had to create the right backdrop. There is no hiding that H.P. Lovecraft has been a big influence for this project. His stories about supernatural cosmic horrors that inflict insanity

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Review – All Good Things

Star Trek: Picard's best aspect is also its biggest issue: It has one foot firmly in the past of the long-running sci-fi franchise, and another in a more modern, darker present. The show is a big, fan-servicey return to the story of legendary Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), complete with visits from a few beloved characters along the way, and no end of Easter eggs and references that often feel like high-fives to the dedicated viewers who've been enjoying the sci-fi franchise for decades, especially in the mid-1990s. Throughout

UK Film Students Receive Surprise Masterclass From The Social Network Director David Fincher

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force people to self-isolate, students across the world have been impacted as classes move online and practicals become impossible. But 450 students at the National Film and Television School in the UK are likely feeling a bit better about their situation now after a surprise masterclass from David Fincher.Fincher, whose directorial credits include The Social Network, Fight Club, and (my personal favorite) Zodiac, made a surprise appearance over Zoom, Indiewire reports. The Masterclass was conducted through Zoom, and since Fincher tends to shy away

Bleeding Edge Guide: 9 Tips For Ninja Theory’s MOBA-Like Action Game

Ninja Theory's new melee-focused action game, Bleeding Edge, is now out on Xbox One and PC. If you're an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, the game comes included in the service on both platforms.At first glance, Bleeding Edge looks like it may resemble plenty of the character-based multiplayer games that have released in recent years (like Rainbow Six Siege and Apex Legends). However, the game has a lot of similarities to multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games too, so there is a bit of a steep learning curve at the start.Once

Half-Life: Alyx Review Roundup

Half-Life: Alyx signifies the first new Half-Life game in years. Just as significantly, it marks a major VR release for Valve, which has both made Half-Life: Alyx a showpiece for its Valve Index VR system, as well as open to play on other VR headsets like the HTC Vive and various Oculus headsets.The expectations for a new Half-Life game are high, but Alyx appears to deliver. It's receiving excellent reviews across the board, many of which appear to agree that the VR is either a boon to the experience or

How to get the Unmaykr – Doom Eternal

Learn how to get your hands on the Unmaykr, a powerful weapon in Doom Eternal. Doom Eternal is all about fast, brutal action. If you want to be the most powerful Doom Slayer out there – and send all those demons back to the pits of hell from whence they came – then you’re going to need powerful weapons to do that. There’s where the Unmaykr comes in. As one of the most powerful weapons in the game, getting your hands on it is going to be vital to your

The internet changed gaming forever. How’s player support keeping up?

“Gaming has changed,” I thought to myself as I slowly maneuvered past the young cosplayers crowding the halls at Gamescom, the largest gaming conference in Europe for players and industry professionals.I thought back to my childhood, and the games I grew up with. Mario and Sonic were still present, I could still find Street Fighter and Fallout merchandise, and FIFA 20 was, somewhat expectedly, huge. But that was pretty much it — the gaming universe I used to know, tucked in between massive displays of games I’ve never heard of.

Swarm Intelligence could be the Key to More Accurate Sports Betting

Share... Facebook Twitter Linkedin Reddit StumbleUpon Tumblr Print email You don’t see many traffic jams in the bee worldPhoto by Jordan Schwartz Artificial intelligence has been shown to have tremendous predictive power in all sorts of areas. Sports is one area in which data plays a key role, whether it’s statistics about a team’s form and overall performance, or data for individual players and their strengths. Collecting this data and analyzing it using algorithms can lead to more accurate predictions. This type of AI doesn’t have to involve any human

Insert coin: Level up your player support experience

If you’re wondering if I’m a gamer, I’m not.I don’t play video games every day, I don’t crowd my mobile phone with gaming apps, belong to any gaming community, I’m not even that good at them! However, from time to time, I do play a game or two. I’ll get excited and even start screaming to the lifeless screen in front of me — and that’s when my inner gamer, dormant most of the time, comes out to play.For this reason, going to Gamescom 2018 was an entirely new experience