Scenes is Josh Wise’s regular column on the intersection between films and video games. This week, it’s Everybody's Gone to the Rapture vs. Annihilation.
It's often said that horror is more effective when we don't actually see the monster. Which is fine, a valid statement, even – but what if the monster is the haunting spectre of verruca socks and discarded plasters?
Panic! At The 'Frisco (Convention Center) – Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic, spoke at GDC 2024 about the highs and lows of bringing Playdate to market.
When publishers passed on Venba, the game's commercial prospects looked slim, but the public's appetite for a very personal cooking game proved the tastemakers wrong.