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Feral Interactive games

  • BioShockBioShock, a first-person shooter released in 2007, hides its sharpest trick inside a polite request: "Would you kindly." The phrase sounds harmless. In the game it carries a hidden weight, and it changes what the player believes about…
  • Tomb Raider (2013 video game)In November 2010, Square Enix filed a trademark for a slogan, "A Survivor is Born," to promote a new Tomb Raider game. That game arrived in 2013 from the developer Crystal Dynamics, and it did not simply continue Lara Croft's story. It…
  • Shadow of the Tomb RaiderShadow of the Tomb Raider, the 2018 adventure game from Eidos-Montréal, begins with its hero doing something she was clearly told not to do. On the island of Cozumel in Mexico, Lara Croft finds a temple whose painted walls warn of a Mayan…
  • Life Is Strange (video game)Life Is Strange opens in October 2013, as an 18-year-old photography student named Max Caulfield returns to Arcadia Bay, Oregon, to attend Blackwell Academy. During class she has a vivid vision of a tornado destroying a lighthouse and…
  • Batman: Arkham AsylumBatman: Arkham Asylum, the 2009 game from Rocksteady Studios, once kept a single developer busy for two years on one garment, Batman's cape. Eidos president Ian Livingstone said the job involved more than 700 animations and sound effects,…
  • Batman: Arkham CityThe blueprints for Batman: Arkham City were hidden in a secret room inside the warden's office of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the game that came before it. Rocksteady Studios planted those hints in the 2009 original while that game was still…
  • Alien: IsolationAlien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game in which the monster hunting the player cannot be killed. Creative Assembly developed it and Sega published it. No weapon in the game ends the threat. The player can only hide, listen and…
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of MordorIn Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an Uruk whom the hero throws into a fire may later return, disfigured and hungry for revenge. No writer scripted that grudge. The game remembered the encounter and built a rival out of it. Released in…
  • Sleeping Dogs (video game)Sleeping Dogs, a 2012 action game set in contemporary Hong Kong, almost never reached a single player. On the 9th of February 2011, the publisher Activision announced that it was cancelling the project, which at that point carried the…
  • Rise of the Tomb RaiderRise of the Tomb Raider, a 2015 action-adventure game from Crystal Dynamics, opens a year after Lara Croft's ordeal on Yamatai. She is an archaeologist who cannot explain the supernatural events she lived through there, and she is…

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