Blood: Anaemic Edition
Stores like Wal-Mart have such a giant effect on which games sell and which developers starve that many games have had special “friendlier” editions released just for its shelves. Including Monolith’s horror FPS Blood. What did they take out? You guessed it.
Designing men
When DreamWorks approached horror writer Clive Barker with the original design for what was to be Clive Barker’s Undying, their main character was a tough, hard-headed baldie called Count Magnus Wolfram. “You’ve got a gay man in charge here,” warned Barker. “Bring me someone fabulously sexy. Bring me somebody I want to sleep with.” Ten days later, Magnus was gone, Undying starred handsome Irish rogue Patrick Galloway, and the games industry had its only major male character to date designed specifically to be sexually attractive to other guys.
