Ryan is the Editor-in-Chief at DualShockers and has been a lover of games as long as he can remember. He holds a BA in English and Cinema and lives in New York City. Developer Bithell Games has ...

Game development continues to change in an industry that embraces new technologies and ways to innovate the storytelling experience for players. Whether it’s indie or big-budget blockbuster titles, ...

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Here’s the shtick: You assume the role of a fairly advanced, high-level robot (in this world, they’re referred to as “teks”) stationed on the subsurface circular, an underground transportation network ...

Lou Contaldi specializes in both reviews and the business behind gaming. He began writing about tech and video games while getting his Juris Doctor at Hofstra University School of Law. He is maybe the ...

You'll take on the role of a robot named Tek when you start off the game. From there, it's a little tough to deduce exactly how things are going to play out, understandably so. But that's part of what ...

Sneaky Mike Bithell, of Thomas Was Alone and Volume fame, has announced and simultaneously released Subsurface Circular today. It's a brief text adventure that puts you in the metal shoes of a robot ...

Subsurface Circular is a short, text-based adventure from Bithell Games, an indie studio that Mike Bithell (Thomas Was Alone, Volume) founded. Though most of the gameplay is through dialogue, it ...

Indie title Subsurface Circular will be making its console debut on Nintendo Switch next month, developer Mike Bithell announced today. To put it more precisely, the game will launch in just two weeks ...

Mike Bithell released a surprise new game today. This happy event is notable because Bithell’s previous work includes the inventive platformer Thomas Was Alone as well as Volume, one of the best ...

Subsurface Circular came out of nowhere. Well, that's not entirely true. Mike Bithell, the developer behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume, tweeted a prescient question in April, asking followers if they ...

Subsurface Circular was intended as a small project to keep Mike Bithell and his team busy while the planning and negotiation stages played out for their next big game. It was to be short – the kind ...