What s it called in movies, I asked my collegues this evening, when a scientist sees a big alien or a monster, and all they can do is say how beautiful it is before they are eaten to bits?

That s admiring the abomination, explained Adam.

Well, you see this disgusting crimson abomination of bloody tendrils in monster videogame Carrion? I admire it. (more…)

Soldat studio Transhuman Design advertised their new run ‘n’ gun platformer Butcher [official site] with the tagline “The easiest mode is ‘HARD’!” It’s pretty hard, y’see. But if you fancy shotguns and saw traps and squishing machines and helicopters and hordes of enemies without bashing your face into a difficulty wall, you can now download a free DLC pack which adds a ‘Casual’ mode. Well it’d be false advertising if they added it to the base game, wouldn’t it? … [visit site to read more]

The 2D shooter Butcher [official site] has its very own release date now, so we can stop talking about how it’ll eventually float down here at “some point.” It’s scheduled to rip into Steam on 5 October, meaning in a few days you too can be blowing through enemies in a pixelated fit of rage.

It also has a cool name that makes me really miss my Kreepsville 666 Diamonte necklace. It’s a cleaver encrusted in cheap crystals, but it makes me feel fancy. Butcher as a game may not make anyone feel fancy in the way a necklace might, but it’s got plenty of blood and guts to spare. And that’s just about the same, really.

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Transhuman Design, the makers of Soldat and King Arthur’s Gold, will release their gross and gritty 2D shooter Butcher [official site] this autumn. It’s a bloody side-on homage to classic ’90s shooters like Quake and Doom, with an extra dose of guts on the side. Here, let’s check it out in a new trailer–come on!

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