In Traverser, the new game from Swedish studio Gatling Goat Studios, you play Valerie Bennet, daughter of Raven Corporation employee/inventor Linus Bennet. The sun has died and forced mankind to move underground. Now, Raven Corporation controls breathable air, holding it like a bribe above the citizen’s heads.
The recent revival of local multiplayer has been a welcome addition in the crowded, independent platformer genre. Towerfall in 2013 and Nidogg in 2014 both provided a seemingly endless source of group fun with their own particular flavor of easy to learn, difficult to master gameplay. Now in 2015, Adult Swim Games will release Duck Game on Steam (previously an OUYA exclusive), in what seems to be an attempt to bank on single screen multiplayer resurgence. ASG have a pretty excellent track record as of late, including the much praised Jazz Punk and the brilliantly old school Völgarr the Viking. Thankfully Duck Game succeeds where it matters most, with a group of friends and some genuinely unexpected moments, yet like so many of its counterparts, it leaves little for the solo player.
Your brother and mother have been killed, and your ranch has been burned down. With his dying breath, your brother points you to your uncle’s farm in search of the killer. From this point on, the list of people you can trust is pretty short. Everyone seems to know something about the killer, it’s up to you to find out their price. Welcome to Westerado.
Adult Swim is the home of strange TV. Mike Tyson Mysteries, fake scripted infomercials, Childrens Hospital and its many spinoffs, and now the instant classic Too Many Cooks. The video is only eleven minutes long, and a must-watch for those who miss, or hate, the cheesy intro credits from the 70s and 80s. Warning: this is …
The pilot for the animated Black Dynamite television show recently aired and being a huge fan of the film, I wanted to share the pilot with our readers. In addition to the movie and the Adult Swim cartoon, Black Dynamite has also branched out to the world of graphic novels. Here is the pilot episode. …
Adult Swim animated this four-minute short that tells part of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim story that didn’t make it into Edgar Wright’s movie.