“DESCENT” by Peter Burr, Mark Fingerhut, and Forma (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic) When you launch the “DESCENT” .exe file on your desktop, a malware invasion of rats begins. At first ...

In 1347, ships reached Sicily with the Black Death. In a year, it spread across Europe to England. In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard ...

A Plague Tale allows 5,000 rats to appear on screen at the same time. There is a rat army. The game’s story is all about rats. There are black plague rats, rat hordes, mind controlled rats, rats that ...

In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard the grain vessels spread the plague that would become the Black Death. Within months, Italian ports ...