The Evil Within

On the left, wallpaper from The Evil Within 2. On the right, the infamous carpet from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Coincidence or homage? You decide.

When The Evil Within came out last year, one of the points of controversy was the game’s gigantic letterboxing during gameplay. Today, Bethesda announced there’s an official patch with the option to remove letterboxing on every version of the game. Weird!

The conclusion of Juli Kidman's story in The Evil Within, The Consequence, drops on April 21, Bethesda announced today. It's the follow-up to the game's stealth-focused DLC, The Assignment. I played it a few weeks ago and appreciated the change in gameplay scenery.

It's been a while since we've heard about The Evil Within's DLC plans, but the first of three add-ons arrives next month. The Assignment follows Detective Sebastian Castellanos's partner, Juli Kidman, and seems to involve using closets to hide from bad things. I'm game.