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UNCOVERED: Sam barlow - The Untold Story

"The very idea of making a prequel to Silent Hill wasn't good," says Origins and Shattered Memories designer: "That game told its story brilliantly through flashbacks, and there weren't really any unanswered questions"

Feature | Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories developers discuss tackling the difficult task of reinventing Silent Hill by going back to the series' roots on PSP and Wii

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"We cough up a chunk of our soul": 32 game devs, from Doom's John Romero to Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads, explain what people get wrong about games

Sam Barlow, Metaphor: ReFantazio leads, ConcernedApe's business head, indie legends, and many more weigh in

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NSW To Pass Law Allowing Victims Of Crime To Receive Notifications About Perpetrators

NSW is introducing new laws to ensure victims of serious crime receive mandatory notifications about their offenders’ status.

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Crime victims' rights, safety boosted in law tweaks

Laws that mandate victims of crime receive information about signing up as registered victim-survivors will be introduced to one state parliament.

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The Switch 2 is here – here's what 28 game developers want from Nintendo's new console, from a "much better" eShop to less painful ports

John Romero, Sam Barlow, Bennett Foddy, David Szymanski, and many more devs weigh in

GamesRadar

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer

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Silent Hill: Downpour devs reflect 12 years on: "Stop trying to be Japanese scary, and just be Czech scary"

Feature | An attempt to refresh things, this very different take was the last mainline Silent Hill

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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is "a weird-ass postmodern riff" on the PS1 original says Sam Barlow, talking the development 15 years later

Feature | This return to the very first game broke apart everything you knew and rebuilt it in a truly chilling fashion

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"Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"

Feature | "People kept calling these things 'interactive movies, and I was like, 'Yeah, they're not really, but okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's make an interactive movie!'"

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17 years on, Sam Barlow reflects on Silent Hill: Origins: "To pull it out of the bag with a seven-out-of-ten game was incredibly rewarding"

Feature | The development of this handheld-first trip to the Hill was as convoluted as the prequel story it tells

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A heap of award-winning indie games are currently on sale at Steam

The IGF Celebration Days sale runs until July 20

PC Gamer

I never expected this major force in horror movies to make games, but I'm sold after playing its first upcoming title

Blumhouse Games is a video games publisher subsidiary of the legendary horror movie company, and I got a chance to play its first upcoming game, Fear the Spotlight.

Windows Central

Top 11 trailers you need to see from Summer Game Fest 2024

The Summer Game Fest for 2024 was a packed showcase of new games — here's the top 7 that caught our attention.

Tom’s Guide

The M3GAN and Get Out production company is investing so heavily in games that it's created the ultimate lineup for horror genre fans

Six new games, from pixel farming sims to a new Sam Barlow-directed FMV adventure

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Making Immortality: Design Works - the book of the game of the films of the actress

Lost In Cult's design director Rachel Dalton explains why this is more than a 'making of' book.

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Future Games Show 2026: Summer Showcase and FGS Live From Los Angeles return on June 6

Mark your calendars for our trio of summer showcases

TechRadar

Immortality creator teases two upcoming games, promises a 'next level FMV' and the 'reinventing' of 3rd person horror

Sam Barlow of Half Mermaid Productions has teased the studio's next two projects with some tantalizing mysteries.

Windows Central

Immortality developer Sam Barlow and Half Mermaid Productions announce two new games

Sam Barlow, the director of 2022's strange standout Immortality, is working on two new games.

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Immortality developer Sam Barlow teases 2 new projects on Steam, and one of them is survival horror

The Steam pages for Project C and Project D look a lot like the first tease for Half Mermaid's last game, Project Ambrosio, which turned out to be Immortality.

The Guardian - UK

Little monsters: why indie developers make the best horror games

In gaming as in cinema, all of the most personal, creative and risk-taking horror can be found away from the mainstream. And happily it’s also a genre in which budget constraints can be turned into an advantage

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Wildly inventive and a little cheesy, these are the best FMV games

The best FMV games include retro revivals and BAFTA-winning artistic achievements. So which will inspire you you create your own video game?

GamesRadar

Future Games Show to broadcast summer showcase on June 10

Join us for over 40 new trailers in our annual summer showcase, illuminating the E3-shaped void with sparkling new games

Los Angeles Times

The most memorable narratives of 2022 were the ones that were playable

In a year that brought about continued experimentation in gaming, as well as refinements of a style, it was arguably a throwback that charmed me more. "Return to Monkey Island," the revitalization of a franchise that had lain dormant since 2009, was a glorious callback to a largely bygone era…

The Guardian - UK

‘Unlike anything you’ve ever played’: Immortality, the video game that’s actually three movies

A video game exploring the treatment of women in Hollywood has set a new standard of sophistication. We talk to its creator and star

The Guardian - UK

Immortality review – an irresistible plunge into a Hollywood mystery

Her Story creator Sam Barlow surpasses himself with this stunning interactive movie thriller in which you play detective, film editor and eavesdropper

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