Well, this has got to be the best video game weapon I've seen in a while.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a quintessentially British open-world horror survival game. But unlike such foes as Pyramid Head and Scissorman you're being chased by robots clad in tweed.

Sir, You Can Now Play This Cool Game: The alpha of the procedurally generated robot-avoidance sim Sir, You Are Being Hunted is now available via Steam Early Access. That means if you pre-order, you can play an early version right now. I've been playing the alpha for the last couple of weeks and having a good deal of…

In a new gameplay video, Jim Rossignol, one of the developers behind tweedpunk (no, we won't stop using that word) robot-survival simulator Sir, You Are Being Hunted, revealed the date we would all be able to start sightseeing on the game's procedurally generated, dreary, scary, pretty version of the British Isles.

Guess that frenetic scavenging and robot-dodging won't be just terrifyingly exciting—it will also be beautiful.

Looking for supplies is all fun and games until the robots spot you. From then on, it's all about running for your life. The above gameplay video for Big Robot's tweedpunk survival game Sir, You Are Being Hunted shows what that looks like. (Spoilers: really exciting.)

It's the way that they move. Sure, the background music filled with tense strings creates some anxiety in the first gameplay glimpse of Big Robot's Sir, You Are Being Hunted. And the low visibility in tall grass adds to the tension, too. But something about the movement of the game's automaton antagonists chills me…

Kotaku friend and Rock Paper Shotgun co-czar Jim Rossignol is moonlighting as a video game developer at a studio called Big Robot. Occasionally he updates us about the progress of his team's PC/Mac/Linux game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted. Happily, this is never awkward, because our friend's procedurally-generated…

Everybody complains about artificial intelligence. It's too dumb. It's too all-knowing. What it really is is too opaque. AI design remains one of the most mysterious disciplines of video game creation. Well, if you've ever wondered about how the rules governing the allies and opponents in a video game, then a blog…

Man really is the most dangerous game. Not just for other men, but also for robots. Apparently.