In Severed, the main character starts out without an arm.
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Creepy indie game Severed is a rarity — a PlayStation Vita exclusive

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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For a game that looks like a cartoon, Severed is pretty creepy. It’s also creative, and it may find a home when it debuts on the PlayStation Vita this year.

Sony showed the first-person game off this week at a preview event. Chris McQuinn, the designer of the game at DrinkBox Studios, the Toronto-based studio that also created titles such as Guacamelee and Mutant Blobs Attack!

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.