This is the latest in the series of articles about the art technology of games, in collaboration with the particularly handsome Dead End Thrills.
It’s not every day you find yourself nodding to every comment under a news story, to the point of trolling yourself. But if we pretend for a minute that my buddy’s mother does indeed make $68 an hour on ‘the internet’, that’s precisely what happened when Adam raved about the latest screenshots of Tangiers on Monday. Much as it does look like a stealth game dialed into the furious dystopian frequencies of Lynch, Burroughs, and Cabaret Voltaire, it also kinda looks like a bunch of Dutch angles and Instagram filters slapped on a load of warehouses. Then again, what else should the videogame Videodrome look like?
Maybe Tangiers will be this year’s answer to The Void. Maybe [twirls moustache] it’ll be this year’s answer to Thief, eh?? And maybe you’ll grow a controller-shaped tumour about two months after you’ve finished it that unlocks the DLC. For answers to none of these questions and more, here’s Andalusian lead Alex Harvey. … [visit site to read more]