You, there, stop that. You’ve got new videogames to play. Good Old Games has just launched free demos for Desperados 3 and the System Shock remake, along with a handful of other upcoming games. I’ve already had a sneaky play of both tactical cowboys and cybernetic spaceship loners, so I can already tell you they’re worth your time. Aren’t I good. This is also another chance to check out Carrion, a horror game where you are a horrible mass of sticky tentacles. (more&hel...

Phobia Game Studio's "reverse horror" game Carrion - in which players are the oozing tentacle monster, and humans are their tiny squishy prey - will be heading to Xbox One alongside the previously announced PC version when it launches next year. Carrion, the follow-up to Phobia's gruesome side-scrolling action game Butcher, casts players as an "amorphous creature of unknown origin", then sets them loose through the shadowy, claustrophobic corridors of a labyrinthine industrial complex. "Stalk an...

Since I first saw a gif of the squishy guts monster of Carrion I haven t been able to decide whether its movement is nauseating or beautiful. Playing its free demo, which is available now through next Saturday, November 2nd, has neither settled my stomach nor my appreciation for its aesthetics. I think this is a good thing. (more…)

Phobia Game Studio's Carrion - the "reverse horror" game that casts you as the oozing flesh monster, for once - now has a limited-time demo on Steam, ahead of its release next year. Carrion is the follow-up to Phobia's gory side-scroller Butcher, and plays out something like Alien in reverse, letting players rampage through the claustrophobic interior of a shadowy industrial complex, flicking tendrils hither and thither until every last human is a pulpy paste. Dicebreaker's Johnny Chiodini found...

Of all the games I got to play at this year's E3, Carrion was one of the most fun and absolutely the most unsettling. Played out in a blood-spattered pixel art style typical of publisher Devolver Digital, Carrion stars you - that is, a voracious alien lifeform on a quest to spread corruption through a (presumably top secret) facility and eviscerate any humans that stand in your way. You navigate the world as a writhing amorphous blob with a series of rending, grasping, whip-like tentacles. These...