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Interview: Hinterland On Going Indie, Avoiding Zombies
There’s a lot that can be said for the life of a successful triple-A developer. Job security, financial stability, and having your name in the credits of a game that sells millions of copies are all...
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First Long Dark Gameplay Footage Fills Me With Longing
We know that Hinterland’s bone-chilling survivor The Long Dark sounds great, and we even know that it looks quite nice in concept art form, but there is still uncertainty. We have yet to see it move....
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Daylight: Hinterland’s Long Dark Funded And Then Some
Kickstarter can rattle your faith in humanity a little sometimes. The Long Dark, for instance, seemingly had everything. An intriguing premise, wild ambition, and the legacy triple-A chops to pull it...
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The Long Dark’s Staggering Beauty
It’s not often you’ll get a phwoar out of me, but: phwoar. As if the oncoming no-technology apocalypse wasn’t enough to get my juices flowing, The Long Dark devs Hinterland Games have only gone and...
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Teatime Of The Soul: The Long Dark Early Access
I’d somehow entirely forgotten the startlingly beautiful The Long Dark in the glut of survival games that have made the rounds recently. It’s rarely my genre, offering too much freedom with too little...
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Hands On: The Long Dark Early Access
The Long Dark is not a friendly game. I have starved to death. Frozen to death. Died of thirst. And been eaten by two wolves. And I have trudged. A great deal. It’s approaching early access next...
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The Long Dark Impres… Oh I’m Being Eaten By A Wolf
The Long Dark has arrived on Early Access, with a bunch of new features since we first looked at it, including a choice between a male or female protagonist, a lot more variation in loot – clothes,...
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Survival Games Are Important
In early 2012, a mod for Arma II called DayZ was released. Two-and-a-half years later, its odd mixture of multiplayer, horror, and a need for players to keep themselves fed and watered, has given rise...
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The Lost Cartographer: Surviving The Long Dark
It’s grim up north. The northern parts of Canada portrayed in early-access survival adventure The Long Dark, that is. We sent Duncan Geere to explore its icy landscapes for Survival Week, and he came...
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The Long Dark Update Makes Game Longer, Darker
Life is just swings and roundabouts, innit? The Long Dark‘s early access just got an enormous update so it’s playable area is twice the size it was before, but the downside is that starvation now...
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The Long Dark Update Doubles Terrain Size Again
Survival games can offer thrilling anecdotes when their systems coalesce, and feel like searching for meaning in a random number generator when they don’t. When developed via Early Access, that’s both...
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Video: A Return To The Long Dark
Snowy survival sim, The Long Dark [official site], has recently doubled its landscape, so I thought it time to return to explore this newly fallen content. And video myself being eaten by wolves in...
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COGWATCH – 4. The Long Dark
Hey! It’s a new episode of Quinns’ weekly video series in which he examines one mechanic in one game. This week: how first-person survival game The Long Dark [official site] uses item degradation as...
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Best Steam Summer Sale Deals: Day 5
What are the best Steam Summer Sale deals? Each day for the duration of the sale, we’ll be offering our picks – based on price, what we like, and what we think more people should play. Read on for the...
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Crafting Mechanics Are Unfit For Purpose
Bethesda have a spectacular talent for making moth-eaten ideas feel like revolutionary concepts: Fallout 4 [official site] will let you play a property baron who constructs not just houses but...
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Longer, Darker: The Long Dark’s New Region And More
I played The Long Dark [official site] for eighteen minutes then uninstalled it and will not return. My character skirted the shores of a frozen lake, scavenged supplies from huts, dodged wolves on...
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Winter Isn’t Going: A Return To The Long Dark
I’ve long loved The Long Dark [official site], each time I’ve returned to it. It’s been six months, and I’ve seen that a new zone has been added along with some major changes to crafting, so it seemed...
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The Long Dark’s Story Mode Gets First Trailer
The Long Dark [official site] is one of our favourite survival games. John has been playing it on a regular basis and enjoying his treks through the cold wilderness a great deal, despite the daft...
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Even Your Mom
One of the commonly used phrases in tech and games to describe a foolproof ease of use is ‘even your mom’. “So simple even your mom could do it”. That’s where this article starts. ‘Even your mom’...
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