'My brother and I wanted to shoot at each other': The Lemaitre brothers couldn't find a perfect 1v1 FPS, so they made one of the year's best shooters themselves

Dissatisfied with the current offering of multiplayer arena shooters, brothers Leonard and Sirius Lemaitre did what any reasonable gamers might do and created their perfect game: Straftat, a breathless 1v1 shooter. Combining the unsettling and liminal world of their previous game, Babbdi, the distilled white-knuckle action of frag-fest greats and a little sprinkling of breakcore, it is quite unlike anything else.

I was seriously taken by the Straftat demo during its debut during October's...