Every year, I do a Halloween Parade at Pseudopod. It’s a look at the pieces of dark and horror fiction that have stayed with me in the year and an excuse to have a little fun with metafictionality. The episode is up over here and the text, plus notes on who’s where, is below. …
The more I play Dying Light, the more I’m impressed by the humanity of it. The characters in the game are just that; characters. Real, flawed, occasionally deeply weird people who’ve carved out a life for themselves in a city where life is very much at a premium. Interacting with them is much more fun …
I’m playing Dying Light at the moment. It’s a first person survival zombie game set in the fictional city of Harran, which has fallen victim to a zombie outbreak. No one’s said zombies, not yet, but the shambling hordes filling the city are pretty clearly post-mortem. Dropped in to by a humanitarian organization to retrieve …