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******Game Review: Summer of ‘58****** (This review contains minor story spoilers.) Summer of ‘58 is a first-person supernatural horror game where the player takes on the role of Alex Morton, a video blogger who investigates haunted locations across the globe at the behest of her fanbase. In this case, the location is Yunost, an abandoned Young Pioneer camp somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Over the course of several chapters, which are each divided between day and night sequences, you will uncover the camp’s dark history, shed light on the tragic events that happened there, and perhaps take a piece of it with you. Young Pioneer Camps were popular in the USSR throughout the 20th century, receiving as many as nine million children at their peak popularity in the 1970s. Think of them as a Soviet equivalent to the summer camps of Western scouting organizations, though instead of the Boy Scouts of America or 4H defining the values, it was commitment to the ideals...

  ******Game Review: IMMORTALITY (2022)***** From the first moments, IMMORTALITY   feels like something that will linger with the player long after the credits roll. The vibrant red of Marissa Marcel’s hair, the hammy quips of the late night host, the smoke-stained swagger of the actors and production crew: we’re picking up pieces of a story with intricate, delicate layers, many of which will crumble before our eyes along the way. Soon, players will have a half-finished sketch of a story, and those initial realizations and inklings that burn into existence from the early clips will reverberate through the whole of the project, giving a sense of the size and scope of what is to come. Her Story Come True************* IMMORTALITY puts the player in the role of a nameless viewer scrolling through an archive of video clips from three unreleased films, all starring the fictional Hollywood starlet, Marissa Marcel ( Manon Gage ), ...

  *****Game Review: Visage**** I’ve played more or less every milestone singleplayer horror game to hit the market for the past few decades. I marveled as gameplay took a great leap forward with Amnesia, shrieked and laughed through the early days of Phasmophobia, stumbled through the sketchy static and fog of the first Silent Hill, and cried silently in my childhood basement as a man named Barry saved a woman named Jill from becoming a sandwich . I’ve played Love, Sam , broken my sprint key in Outlast, and braved the famed horrors of Shalebridge Cradle . I’m a naturally jumpy person, and I’ve screamed, squealed and swore my way through hundreds of horrifying video game moments. I should really be getting desensitized by this point, but there’s something about putting on the headphones and turning off the lights that taps directly into my amygdala with a rusty nail. Git Gud at Not Being Scared************* No game has scared ...