Dexter: Slice Coming to Mobiles for Halloween

You might have wondered what Ed Annunziata is up to these days. If you're not familiar with the veteran developer, he's created a number of games but most famously he crafted the Ecco The Dolphin series on the Sega Mega Drive in the '90s. His latest game is a mobile puzzle game starring a serial killer which involves playing with knives. No, we're not making this up.

Dexter: Slice is the spiritual successor to Annunziata's last game: Slice HD. It's a mobile equivalent of when you were a kid and you used to try and stab your school desk with a compass without hitting your fingers, and it stars the famous serial-killer crime investigator himself, Dexter Morgan.

At game launch, the haunting voice of Dexter’s father Harry accompanies all action, complete with extensive original dialogue recorded by award-winning actor James Remar. Dexter himself, Michael C. Hall, will also lend his own voice talents in add-on content this December, available at no cost for those who purchase the game beforehand. Under license by CBS Consumer Products and Showtime, all 120 bloody-fun levels are available just in time for Halloween at a special price of £2.89/$2.99 from now until Halloween (normal price $3.99/£3.89).

“I think Dexter’s fans will get excitement—they’ll get back into the head of Dexter,” says Remar. “It’s a very personal, first-person kind of experience where the people actually get to be Dexter, with the voice of Harry in the background. I get to have that little rapport with Dex that was so much fun for me to play when I was actually doing the show. It’s almost like I never left.”