Take Super Smash Bros., squeeze it onto your phone or tablet, replace the Nintendo characters with cute monsters and in-app purchases, and you’ve got multiplayer brawler Fright Fight from publisher Appsolute. (more…)
Category: Gaming & Collectibles
Stuff to fill your shelves and entertainment unit with.
Universal Monsters Select Wolf Man action figure perfectly renders a boring icon
Diamond Select Toys has given Dread Central an exclusive look at three upcoming additions to its licensed Universal Monsters collection: the Wolf Man, the Mummy, and an original take on Lucy Westenra from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. They’re detailed, articulated, and totally not for me. (more…)
Kotaku investigates Bloodborne’s “playable werewolf” rumour ahead of strategy guide release
I’ve seen a lot of chatter lately that indicates the werewolf connection in Bloodborne for PS4 is deeper than I wrote about last week, and in a gargantuan Kotaku post Patricia Hernandez catalogs the evidence. The conclusion: even though you’re killing werewolves in the game, you’re probably a werewolf yourself, too. (more…)
7 days left to brutalize your bridge game with illustrated werewolf playing cards
I’ve learned a lot in 10 minutes from this Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know the world of playing cards has its own hyper-articulate vocabulary, or that it was possible to make playing cards look so bad-ass that Mr. Torgue would approve of them. (more…)
Bloodborne’s werewolves look rad & work hard, please don’t farm them
Bloodborne is a new PlayStation 4 game that’s so difficult it’s making gamers cry. It’s also making me cry because I’m receiving reports that players are farming the game’s werewolf enemies. Farming them! (more…)
Start a Very Fast Werewolf Riot with “Infinity Runner – Unleash the Beast”
Imagine the pitch meeting for Wales Interactive’s game Infinity Runner – Unleash the Beast. “So what if we took Mirror’s Edge, turned it into an endless runner, set it on a 150-mile-long spaceship that’s falling apart… and made the player character a werewolf?” (more…)
Sweet shades, powerful metal music & werewolf slaying in “The Order 1986” video
As part of the promotional effort for the upcoming Playstation 4 game The Order: 1886, Corridor Digital was commissioned to create “Werewolf Slayer”, an amazing 1986 metal music video / short film on the power of miscommunication. (more…)
“The Order: 1886” and the sad story of Little Bobby Paige
As part of the marketing ramp-up for the PlayStation 4 game The Order: 1886, this short and creepy animation recently popped up. It’s about a young man who may or may not be a foe you face in the game, and you definitely don’t have to be familiar with the game’s story to get a kick out of it. (more…)
Holiday Grab Bag: “The Order” werewolf combat, “I” Tamil insanity, illegal hyphens & more
It’s the holiday season and things are getting weird in the world of werewolves. Here are a few short pieces to chew on while you wait for your buddy Krampus to show up. (more…)