Gothic platformer Love Eternal turns Celeste into a full-bore psychological horror game

The precision-platformer is a torturous genre at the best of times, and now developers Brlka and publishers Ysbryd Games have seen fit to combine it with Silent Hill. Their forthcoming Love Eternal is the story of Maya, a girl whisked off to a “castle built of bitter memories” by a weird, lonely god, and obliged to make her way “through over 100 screens filled with spikes, lasers, switches, and traps”.

When not getting spiked or lasered, Maya appears to spend her days in a kind of metaphorical suburban household. Here, she will contend with things like people crawling on the ceiling and coming over all Babadook. Maya does have one major advantage: the ability to reverse gravity. Watch her put that ability to use in the new trailer.

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This $50 case turns your phone into an e-reader minus the benefits of an e-reader

Astropad's new Bookcase is a smartphone accessory that makes reading on a smartphone feel more like reading on an e-reader. No, it doesn't give your phone a nicer screen, longer battery life, or other features that have made devices like the Kindle so popular. Instead, the $50 bookshelf is really just designed to make it … Read more

Lifx’s new tube bulb turns your boring light fixtures into RGB glow sticks

Lifx has launched a new 'Polychrome' smart tube light that can glow in multiple colours, turning your home lamps and lights into fun glowing popsicles. Made from a frosted glass tube, the lights contain 104 LEDs with 52 controllable zones that allow for colour changing effects and include themes such as a crackling fire in … Read more