It's been a while since I've been in a church, but something here looks suspiciously… ALTARed. yuk yuk.

In the words of British philosopher Bertrand Russell: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! IT’S COMING TO GET ME, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! RUN! GET OUT OF MY WAY! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! SAVE YOURSELVES! MADNESS AWAITS! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!“

I’m fairly certain that’s the proper quotation anyway. I might have accidentally added an extra “A” in there for effect, but you pretty much get the gist of it. An excellent, breakaway cult hit by Frictional Games (and if you don’t believe me, then believe the spectacular figures on the $5,102,500.83 earnings of the Humble Indie Bundle V), Amnesia: The Dark Descent was the scariest damn game I’ve ever played in my life. Hell, it might be the scariest movie, book, game, or piece of consumable media I’ve ever had the pleasure (or horror) of interacting with. Imagine my terror when it turns out that their upcoming sequel, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, is being developed by The Chinese Room, developers of the haunting and touching Dear Esther.

Set for release in the fall of this year for PC (hopefully in October goes the word on the street), Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs will send me screaming into the streets, an action I often wonder why I orchestrate by playing terrifying things. I just can’t help myself, though.

Links: Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Website

Johnny Maloney

Having been a gamer since 1986 when his father brought home an IBM PCjr with King's Quest and Crossfire included, it seemed destined that PC gaming and Johnny Maloney's life would run parallel forever. Despite his occasional affairs with movies, books, music and single malt scotch, he's never once left the side of his PC. In fact, on a full moon on a friday the thirteenth, if you sit in his old chairs... chills will run up your spine if you say "you fight like a dairy farmer," and you can sometimes hear ghostly whispers in the night respond "how appropriate, you fight like a cow…" -- Attempting to contact Johnny at Johnny@Blisteredthumbs.net may be successful.

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