Little Nightmares is like being up late as a child, stumbling after a bad dream. Shadows hide monsters and nothing is as it should be. It's quiet and unsettling but also nothing that hasn't been done before.

A messy split between the two co-founders of the game studio Playdead left one partner departing with roughly $US7.2 ($10) million after being forced to exit, according to new details that emerged this week.

The final moments of Inside are tense and unexpected, but it's only one way for it to end. Theories about the secret ending are even crazier.

Well, here's one of the most straightforward video game reviews I'll ever write.

How long is this going to last? I have no idea. For that reason I recommend that you run to Steam as fast as your virtual legs can carry you. Download Limbo and enjoy one of the most interesting video games of the last decade.

For free.

It's raining free Xbox games! Only a few days after Fallout 4 accidentally went on sale for $US0.00 ($0) on the Xbox Store, the brilliant death simulator Limbo is now also free. Though this reduction looks more deliberate.

Limbo isn't a straightforward adventure. It's confusing. But it's a good kind of confusing that inspires people to band together and try to solve its mysteries.

A simple tweak gives the world of Dark Souls an exceptionally eerie quality.

Want to make Dark Souls even harder? Simple — completely remove the HUD, and turn everything into a hundred different shades of black and white. Turns out it's ridiculously easy to do, too.

Whether it's an RPG that tells a story over dozens of hours, or a strategy game that takes months to master, games are often a considerable time investment. For many people this is central to gaming's appeal: nowhere else in art can you find such complete worlds to lose yourself in or such stern challenges to overcome.

The eerie, kind of creepy atmosphere of 2010's Limbo is captured perfectly in this short film by Jesper Eriksson. It's kind of uncanny, to the point that I was surprised to find no mention of the game in an interview with Eriksson about the short.

Ingenious puzzles and a chilling black-and-white aesthetic helped make 2011's Limbo a critically acclaimed hit. Now, the guy who crafted much of that indie success' gameplay has something new coming out, a stripped-down platformer called 140 that's exploding with rainbow hues.

It's not a full, real game yet, but Newgrounds user executive11 is working on it. For now, you can bounce around in the pretty half-Limbo, half-Mario world.

My favourite video games are the games I don't fully understand. They stay with me after I stop playing. They ask questions I cannot answer. They resonate with mystery.

This might be the saddest combination of characters/worlds ever. Thanks, z0h3, for making me go "aww" and then promptly "aww." They were two totally different "aww"s, I swear.

I usually don't like listening to outside music while I play games, and certainly not while I play atmospheric games like Limbo. And yet if I had to choose a soundtrack for Playdead's dark little game, I could think of worse albums than Radiohead's Amnesiac.

I liked Limbo a lot, and I love Bill Watteron's timeless comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. So I would do things, ungodly things, for this T-shirt from Nowhere Bad, which combines the two things in a manner so fantastic that I can't believe no one's done it before.

Limbo was one of my favourite games of 2010 — a game that combined atmospherics, smart puzzle design and a wicked sense of humour into something dark, harrowing and distinctive.

Did you ever wonder what would have happened if the boy from Limbo had reunited with his sister? And say, gone on a safari in Africa?