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Joystiq Streams: Humble Bundle giveaway extravaganza
Perhaps you heard: We put together a Humble Bundle! Joystiq and the merry Humble crew assembled a selection of delicious games and began selling them for a shockingly low price, with proceeds going to the developers, Humble, and the absolutely wonderful organization known as AbleGamers. (If you're unfamiliar with AbleGamers, we recently spotlighted their work here.) Some awesome games populate the bundle: Costume Quest 2, Slender: The Arrival, The Dream Machine, and Primal Carnage to name a few. With two days left to pick up the bundle, we're celebrating the event by streaming a bunch of them from 2:30PM to 5:00PM EST on Joystiq.com/Twitch. Watching us play games is cool and all, but what do you get out of it? Free games! We'll be doling out free bundles as we stream so tune in to get in on it. Joystiq.com/Twitch from 2:30PM to 5:00PM EST. Be there. Dig the streams? Follow us on Twitch for more. [Images: Double Fine, Humble]
Joystiq presents Humble Weekly Bundle, made just for you
The Joystiq staff tried to package and send out boxes love to everyone on the internet, but shipping costs were crazy, so we helped prepare this Humble Weekly Bundle instead! The Humble Weekly Bundle Joystiq edition includes Beat Hazard Ultra (plus DLC), Intake, Dungeon of Elements and The Dream Machine chapters 1 - 4, all for whatever price you care to pay. For $6 or more, add on Slender: The Arrival and Primal Carnage. Pay at least $15 and also get Costume Quest 2. Joystiq's Humble Weekly Bundle supports The AbleGamers Foundation, an organization that advocates on the behalf of the disability community to make games more accessible for players of all types. We spoke with AbleGamers COO Steve Spohn this year about the climate facing players with disabilities. "When we are denied something, the walls come down around us and we're locked, trapped," Spohn said. "When you break that barrier the walls come down again, and you feel like you can rejoin the world. What we do is for the people. That's what this is about. Giving people a sense of control over their own lives." Check out the Humble Weekly Bundle Joystiq edition right here, or use the sweet widget below.
Slender: The Arrival stalks ratings for PS4, Xbox One, Wii U
You can't escape Slender Man. Even if you unplug your old consoles and huddle under stronger machines, you're still not safe. That's what new ratings from PEGI (Europe's content rating board) suggest anyway, as a 12-and-up grade has been assigned to Slender: The Arrival's sudden appearance on PS4, Wii U and Xbox One. Release dates included in the ratings range from October 23 to October 24, which seems ... wrong, given the current-gen port's absence from Europe's digital marketplaces. Majesco Europe Limited is listed as the The Arrival's publisher in each content rating however, so at least that part reflects reality. Brave souls can also venture into The Arrival's creepy woods on PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac, but we propose joining our cowardly sanctuary under the bed, where we're definitely safe and none of life's monsters can ever get us. Well, except for the one that lives down here ... [Image: Midnight City]
Halloween Horror Streams: A very Slender: The Arrival giveaway
The mere suggestion of danger, peril, and the impossible can be the scariest thing in the world to some folks. Take good old Slender Man, the Internet's very own nightmare tulpa. He's not even a killer! He's just omnipresent, convincing others to do evil. Spooky freak with his stupid Matrix suit. We'll show him a thing or two. Joystiq's Halloween horror game streaming extravaganza rolls on at 4:00PM EST today on Joystiq.com/Twitch with Slender: The Arrival. Anthony John Agnello (@ajohnagnello) has never played any Slender game before and is walking in blind. Susan Arendt (@SusanArendt) will be on hang giving away copies of the game for PS3 and 360 in the chat and to laugh at Anthony's cowardice. We broadcast live every Tuesday and Thursday on Joystiq.com/Twitch at 4:00PM EST, but we're streaming horror games every day until Halloween so follow us on Twitch to know when we go live. [Images: Blue Isle Studios]
Slender: The Arrival shines a dull light on PS3, Xbox 360
Slender Man is here. He's creeping through your PS3 and Xbox 360, waiting for you to plop down $10 so he can appear on your TV screen, dressed to the nines but still without a face. Slender: The Arrival on consoles expands the original game with new story elements and extended levels, and those who already own the game on PC will get the new content free of charge. More information about that free PC DLC is due in a few weeks. Slender: The Arrival is the "official" Slender Man game, written by members of Marble Hornets, the creators of the original Slender Man YouTube videos, and developed by Blue Isle Studios. The game's scare factor comes mostly from sensory deprivation – players get a camcorder and a flashlight to investigate the dark woods and hallways in a small, haunted town. "The story centers on an unwitting participant in the Slender Man mythos who walks into a mystery that just keeps pulling her in deeper," publisher Midnight City writes. "Lauren, a realtor helping a friend sell her property, arrives at Kate's home just to find a cryptic note and an empty house. Powering up her camcorder, Lauren takes off in search of Kate, but unbeknownst to her something ancient, dark and other-worldly is stalking her every step of the way."
Slender: The Arrival creeps up on PS3 September 23 [Update: Xbox 360 the next day]
Your old pal Slender Man will make his console debut later this month with the launch of Slender: The Arrival for the PlayStation 3, developer Blue Isle Studios revealed today. Inspired by an Internet-born mythos, Slender: The Arrival is a first-person horror game in which players navigate sparsely-lit environments while they're stalked by the faceless (but sharply-dressed) Slender Man. The freeware game Slender: The Eight Pages kicked off explosive growth within the horror genre on PC platforms following its release in 2012, and the PS3 port of its sequel The Arrival marks the first Slender Man appearance on consoles. Developer Alex Tintor notes that Slender: The Arrival will feature new levels, new characters, and expanded storyline content when it hits the PlayStation 3 on September 23. Update: After his first day of terrorizing North American PlayStation fans, Slender Man will give European PS3 fans and global Xbox 360 users a scare on September 24. The PS3 version of The Arrival will be priced at $9.99. [Video: Midnight City]
Majesco's indie label bringing Double Dragon: Neon to Steam, Slender to consoles
Publisher Majesco announced that it will bring WayForward's arcade-style brawler Double Dragon: Neon and Blue Isle Studios' first-person horror game Slender: The Arrival to new platforms in the first quarter of this year under its Midnight City indie label. Double Dragon: Neon is set to hit Steam with a new online co-op mode -- a key feature that was missing from its previous PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ports. Slender: The Arrival will boast new post-game flashback levels when it debuts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as a digital release this quarter, and developer Blue Isle Studios plans to patch the PC and Steam versions of the game to add the new console content once it's available. Midnight City's lineup also outs the upcoming launch of Krautscape, a tactical racing game due for a Windows PC release via Steam later this quarter.
Indie Capsule Bundle: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Blood of the Werewolf, more for $3.49
The Indie Capsule Bundle is now live, and gives buyers seven games for $3.49. The bundle, slated to end on January 7, is hosted through Bundle Stars and hand-picked by Capsule Computers. Those that pick up the Indie Capsule Bundle will receive Steam keys for the following seven games: side-scrolling adventure/shooter Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, creepy horror game Slender: The Arrival, Blood of the Werewolf, And Yet It Moves, Snuggle Truck, Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time and Plain Sight. Three of the seven games, And Yet It Moves, Doc Clock and Snuggle Truck, are Mac compatible. The savings amount to $55, or 93 percent off the combined retail price of each game. Bundle Stars has a few other money-saving packages that are ending sooner, such as the Plains, Trains and Automobiles Bundle and the Outer Limits Bundle for $4.01 each, as well as the Ultimate Sci-Fi Bundle and the FPS Warriors Bundle for $3.50 each.
Slender: The Arrival, Blood of the Werewolf hit Steam at a 20% discount
Blood of the Werewolf and Slender: The Arrival are now available on Steam, bringing a batch of Greenlight-approved horror to this week's Halloween festivities. Slender: The Arrival is a reimagining of the first-person indie freeware hit Slender: The Eight Pages, developed by Blue Isle Studios in collaboration with Slender mythos creator Eric "Victor Surge" Knudson. The Arrival expands on the original game's premise with new narrative elements and improved graphics while upping the horror quotient with Oculus Rift support. In the 2D platformer Blood of the Werewolf, players assume the role of a part-time mother and full-time werewolf as she quests to rescue her kidnapped child from a gang of movie-inspired monsters. Blood of the Werewolf, coincidentally, was part of this month's collaborative Not on Steam Sale. As of today, it's not not on Steam. Both games are available for 20 percent off of their regular prices through November 4.
Slender: The Arrival gets spooky on Steam October 28
Survival horror game Slender: The Arrival will launch October 28 on Steam. The spooky adventure will set players back $9.99, and will launch on consoles in 2014. Slender: The Arrival is a re-imagining of Parsec Productions' free indie game Slender: The Eight Pages. The game is written by the Marble Hornets team, a documentary-style webseries centered around the popular Slenderman mythos. Slender: The Arrival places players in the role of Laura, a realtor that is assisting her friend Kate in selling her house. Kate goes missing, leaving Laura to search for her with a camcorder in one hand and a flashlight in the other.
Slender: The Arrival stalks Steam this month
Blue Isle Studios' spooky tall-guy simulator Slender: The Arrival will turn up on Steam by the end of the month, according to a newsletter floating around the developer's official forums and Facebook page. The newsletter states that the game will drop by "this Halloween," and that the Steam version will include "new content," though no further specifics were given. More information is expected later this week, so sayeth a developer post on the forums. Slender: The Arrival originally launched for Mac and PC back in March of this year, and is currently available in non-Steam flavors starting at $10.
Slender: The Arrival lands (right behind you) March 26, pre-orders up
Slender: The Arrival is here for pre-orders, and probably your soul, direct from developer Blue Isle Studios, now with a launch date of March 26. Slender: The Arrival comes in a handful of pre-order options, starting with a $5 discount price that grants players a download of the game and access to the beta today. The game will cost $10 when it launches, and for that price players get everything in the $5 option, but "are feeling generous," as Blue Isle puts it.$15 gets the same goodies but includes a copy of the soundtrack on launch day; $25 is all of that plus five downloadable, high-resolution paintings from the game. The top tier, $60, snags everything in previous options plus your name in the credits as a super special thank you.Ah, the joy of indie games: Scaring your pants off for a fraction of the price of mainstream retail titles.[Thanks, Alex!]
Slender: The Arrival teaser trailer revisits ghost of Slender past
Slender: The Arrival is Mark Hadley's reimagination of his free Unity game Slender: The Eight Pages, based on the Slender Man horror meme. The Arrival is full of spirit, but as this teaser trailer shows it isn't really the festive kind.
Faceless: Slender Man stalks, blocks Greenlight's top game from Steam
Faceless has been the No. 1 game on Steam Greenlight since fans voted for the first batch in September, and it was the top game during the second round, which Greenlit 21 games in October. Faceless still holds the spot today, but when Valve announces the next group of Greenlight games, chances are it will be skipped over once again. Faceless is haunted by the rusty chains of the legal system. It's a horror game that tells the tale of Slender Man, the elongated, suited phantom notorious for stalking gullible children and teenagers (though mostly just those who own handheld cameras). Victor Surge initiated The Slender Man mythos on the Something Awful forums in 2006, and it migrated to YouTube in 2009 in a series of "lost footage" videos from Marble Hornets. The footage chronicles Slender Man as he haunts a film student, Alex, slowly driving him to paranoia before he is lost to the ether and insanity. The first episode has 2.4 million views and the channel now hosts 64 full entries, last updated in October 2012. Slender Man is a horrific viral hit. In a sense, Slender Man stalks Faceless developer Justin Ross just as he does Alex – the Slender Man legend is the reason Faceless can't yet be approved on Greenlight. "We've been the No. 1 game since the service launched and have yet to be Greenlit due to copyright issues with Slender Man, which is a free-to-use entity, and we've even gotten permission from the creator Victor Surge," Faceless developer Justin Ross tells Joystiq. "It's starting to feel like Greenlight games aren't chosen by the community like Valve has stated, and it's instead their choice, not the community's."
First screens of Slender: The Arrival show fear in high-def
Slender: The Eight Pages, a free Unity game based on the Slender Man horror meme (the one we have to constantly remind ourselves is not real), has been quietly creeping through the tubes for some time. The Eight Pages is a simplistic yet terrifying romp through an oppressive forest, where players are stalked by the deadly, omnipresent form of Slender Man as they attempt to locate eight scraps of paper by the dim glow of a fading flashlight. And yes, people play this for fun.Slender: The Arrival is in development by The Eight Pages creator Mark Hadley, under Parsec Productions, and Blue Isle Studios. It's planned for a commercial PC release "in the coming months.""Slender: The Arrival is the official re-imagining of the original release that will engage players with the same terrifying gameplay, while adding a complete gaming experience that the fans have been asking for," Blue Isle writes. "We have been working closely with Mark over the past few weeks and we are really excited to deliver the best Slender game possible. The final version will include improved visuals, more content, more levels, and an engaging storyline to add to the Slender setting."Below are the first two screenshots of Slender: The Arrival. Gird your loins, folks.
