Hello, Amorphous Beings! The first post-release update is coming out today! The patch focuses on the most critical issues you've reported so far since day one, such as game-breaking softlocks, crashes, and so on. Additionally, there are some quality-of-life improvements made with custom level creation in mind. Not quite the Workshop integration we're after yet, but there's more to come soon! Version: 1.0.3-RELEASE-140-gaacc44a3 Patch notes/changelog: General: Fix: linking to glibc 2.2.5 on Linux...

Alien fleshbeasts are really good at flinging, creeping, bashing, and gnawing on the bones of hapless scientists. But as the formless biological horror in Carrion, it's easy to realise that The Thing doesn't have a great sense of direction - or an in-game map. It's easy to get lost in Carrion's caverns. What's a tentacled meat monster to do? One option is to use this handy map created by two Carrion fans working in collaboration. The first step was to map out the game, and that was accomplished ...

Carrion review Carrion is a Metroidvania where you control a B-movie monster: a slithering mass of meat and mouths escaping from a mysterious research facility. * Developer: Phobia Game Studio; * Publisher: Devolver Digital; * Release: Out now; * On: Windows, MacOSX, Linux; * From: Steam, GOG, Humble; * Price: £17/$20/€20; Carrion has fleeting moments of brilliance. You might have seen those moments, in the GIFs that have been popping up on Twitter over the course of the Metroidvania monster mas...

One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. As the fuzzy denizens of earth pivot to non-existence, we will soon be left with an unclear memory of the animal kingdom’s bizarre court. The elephant, for instance, what even is it? I cannot help with that question, I’m not a marine biologist. But what I can offer is a tour of endangered videogame wil...

John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the best horror movies ever made, and a big part of that is down to the gruesome creature effects created by make-up effects artist Rob Bottin. The alien menace in The Thing could enter any living organism, but would sprout hideous tentacles and rip the host body to shreds when confronted. The idea behind Carrion, the new platformer from Phobia Game Studio, is that being the Thing sounds like a lot of fun. As it turns out, it is. In Carrion, you take control ...