Man of Medan asks you to make both trivial and weighty choices.
Man of Medan asks you to make both trivial and weighty choices.
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Man of Medan hands-on — Supermassive tries horror on the high seas

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

For fans of Until Dawn, a watery grave awaits. Bandai Namco Games showed off a demo of Man of Medan, the first installment in The Dark Pictures Anthology from developer Supermassive Games.

I played the demo at PAX East, the big fan show in Boston last week. I was in the middle of a giant show floor, but that game made me feel like I was all by myself. Like Until Dawn, this game has super-realistic computer-generated characters. They move slowly and the latency is high, but it feels like you are walking around in a movie.

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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.