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Filed to:charles holden Screenshot: Variable State / Annapurna Interactive To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. You’d think a game featuring mysterious green magic swirling in the London underground would be all about weird stuff. But Last Stop — at least from what I’ve seen of ...

Last Stop Is A Truly Cinematic Experience That Uses its Camera In Clever Ways Developer Variable State has pulled a 180 with Last Stop, which is structured very differently to the studios debut game, Virginia. GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Im a little surprised by just how cinematic Last Stop is. Developer Variable State wrestles the camera away from the player to frame every scene in different ways. Much like Silent Hill or The Medium, this is sometimes utilized to achieve ...

Getting through hard Thames.  22 April 2021 Whats Last Stop about? After playing the first few chapters, Im still not entirely sure - but thats probably the point. An adventure game in which the plot slowly unfolds through three interconnected stories, its initially a slow burner, yet the characters and cliffhangers introduced with each chapter have me completely intrigued - and Im itching to know how each of them gets resolved. Made by Variable State and publish...

Im a big fan of narrative-based adventure games, especially when theres a twist to the concept. The team at Variable State has brought together some interesting new characters, but more interesting is the way the game is presented. We took an early look at one of the many games coming this year from publisher Annapurna Interactive. Last Stop starts off like something out of Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone. A pair of unknown figures are looking to escape police on foot by cutting across a subw...

April 21, 2021 8:00am by Trilby Beresford Courtesy of Annapurna Interactive British studio Variable State opens up about its chapter-based, dialogue-driven game that features overlapping stories with a supernatural twist. The Independent Gamer is a curated roundup of news from indie gaming, landing here every other Friday. British game studio Variable State teased its upcoming chapter-based narrative adventure  Last Stop during a press demo, describing the game as a dialogue-heavy "anthology...

OlliOlli World, which brings the series fearsomely compelling skateboarding formula into wonderfully stylised 3D - and onto Switch - this winter. OlliOlli World - Announcement Trailer. Studio Seufzs fascinatingly lonely adventure The Longing is out today on Switch. This one casts players as Shade and sets them loose in the caverns of a vast underground kingdom, finding ways to pass the time as they wait 400 days for their king to awaken - in real-time. The Longing - Switch Launch Trailer. Also...

Round Up: All The Games From The Nintendo Indie World Showcase - April 2021 Share: Yesterday, we were treated to a brand new Nintendo Indie World Showcase, giving us a glimpse at some of the brightest indie games set to launch on Switch. More than 20 games were shown in what felt like a particularly strong presentation all around. If you missed it, or just want to keep track of everything that was announced, weve got you covered below. Nintendo Indie World Showcase April 2021 - The Whole Presen...

Microsoft Highlights the 2021 Xbox Console Exclusives While the notion of Xbox exclusives still roils some videogame fans for some reason, I don’t think Microsoft has ever cataloged them in advance before. But they have now: This week, Microsoft provided a lengthy list of games that will release exclusively to the new Xbox consoles this year. “It’s always about the games,” Microsoft’s Will Tuttle writes. “In 2021, creators around the world will tap deeper into the power of Xbox Seri...