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Man of Medan hands-on — Multiplayer adds new dimension to choice-based game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

I’ve played demos of Man of Medan, the first installment in a five-story anthology dubbed The Dark Pictures, on a couple of occasions. But this week, in a spooky setting aboard the World War II ship USS Hornet, I got a nice surprise.

The developers of the game at Supermassive Games — the makers of Until Dawn, my favorite game of 2015 — revealed a multiplayer dimension to Man of Medan, which debuts on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on August 30.

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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.