Ever been curious about a neighbor—so curious that you’ve considered snooping? Announced today, stealth horror PC game Hello Neighbor will take that spying, meddling impulse to the extreme. Also extreme is your enemy, just a friendly neighborhood AI who learns from your every move.

Tangiers is a stealth game like no other. Its art style is derived from dark surrealist landscapes, its levels alter and rebuild themselves based on how you play, and your weapons are pieces of dialogue that you snatch out of the air. It’s also set in “a parody of 1970s concrete Britain.”

Ok, so this video by YouTuber Frank Zappa racing through De Pleur's fortress in Far Cry 4 and stealth-killing baddies like a boss was obviously rehearsed. But man, those long-distance knife throws! It's also fun to imagine that it's actually Frank Zappa ninja-running Far Cry rather than Ajay Ghale.

Tangiers is described as a "dark and uneasy" stealth game. Well, its new trailer is exactly that. The Thief-inspired, somewhat recently Kickstarted PC stealth-em-up is nearing its beta development phase, and is expected to get a release date within a couple weeks.

The guys behind Sneaky Bastards have published a "2014 Manifesto" on the stealth genre. And whether you can even call it that. If you enjoy any part of a game where you're sneaking around, go read it.

Aussie writer Daniel Hindes, who for a while has run a niche site called Sneaky Bastards, wants to take the idea of discussing stealth games to a more tangible format. Hence, Sneaky Bastards, the magazine.

2012 was a banner year for stealth games. From January up through December, we got to play a healthy variety of games involving dozens of different types of sneaking, skulking, lurking, and sklurking. (It's a thing.)

The plague-infested streets and alleys of Dishonored's industrial city of Dunwall are rather dark and shadowy, but without proper use of stealth techniques one might as well be stomping through them on mechanical legs.

Thought we forgot about Speak Up on Kotaku's Best Game Ever? We were only biding our time until commenter DocSeuss and admitted his love for the one stealth action game that got nearly everything right.

You can charge through Deus Ex: Human Revolution guns ablaze, but you'll miss out on the special moments shared by the game's characters when they don't know you're there.

Let's face it. If sweet science fictional rides like Airwolf or KITT actually existed, laymen like us wouldn't get first dibs. No, we'd probably get saddled with whatever comically impractical vehicles the Tony Starks of the world don't scoop up.

Invisibility cloaks; stealth armor; invisible jets - a team of physicists at Scotland's University of St Andrews have made a breakthrough that could make these items a reality.