*Note: This interview is being reposted from a previous Festival of Dread event. Welcome back to the Festival of Dread, The Splintering‘s month-long celebration of all things wicked and bewitching! Every now and again, we at The Splintering are going to lean on our mascot, Chomp the Termite, to go out into the world of myth and fiction to get
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Epic Games recently added two new character skins to the Fortnite lineup: Street Fighter’s Ryu and Chun Li. The resulting social media frenzy has been a joy to watch, even for me- who is not at all a Fortnite player. There are clearly those who are just now discovering why the leggy young lass is video games’ original Waifu, and
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Japanese developer PlatinumGames has unveiled Project G.G., an all-new action IP described as “the powerful climax to the Hideki Kamiya superhero trilogy”. (Kamiya-San being the celebrated director of Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101). In an interview with the Japanese publication Famitsu, Kamiya notes that Project G.G. is “Platinum challenging what [the company] hasn’t challenged before… If Viewtiful Joe is like a Kamen
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The Chinese version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has been removed by the game’s publisher Tencent and replaced with Game for Peace, which is essentially a mod of the original PUBG altered to provide “healthy, positive cultural and value guidance” for Chinese players. Tencent agreed to tone down some of the more mature themes of PUBG in 2017, but even after
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