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Interview: New Texas Chain Saw Massacre Game Could Redefine Asymmetrical Horror
11.5.2023
Tobe Hooper’s 1974 stomach-roiling film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a slasher masterpiece with unparalleled garish beauty. None of its prosaic sequels have quite managed to replicate its magnetic horror: Scorching viewers with an orange sun and tossing them into the orange smoker, where...
8 Fashion Tips To Transform Into A Horror Game Protagonist
10.5.2023
This summer, we’re dressing like horror video game protagonists, like this TikTok with over 100 thousand views recently declared. But not in the sour browns or bloated hoodies you see men wearing in games like Alan Wake or Silent Hill—we need to start dressing like the girls.Read more
Viz Media’s New Manga App Is The Criterion Collection Of Romance, Horror Series
9.5.2023
On Monday, Viz Media announced the launch of a new manga reading service called Viz Manga which will give users access to a wider variety of manga outside of its usual action-adventure shonen series for just $1.99 a month. To further sweeten the deal, the new manga subscription service will...
In This Horror Game You're A DJ And All Your Callers Are Getting Murdered
5.5.2023
Indie developer Team17’s Killer Frequency, out June 1, surprises me by having some of the best, most convincing voice acting and dialogue I’ve witnessed in a horror game. It’s a tragicomedy set in a radio station in the ‘80s, and this necessitates a schmooze-y charm for its characters, but...
Legendary Horror Manga Creator Is A Little Worried About AI Artwork
4.5.2023
The tumultuous digital age we find ourselves in has become a modern horror story for professional voice actors and artists witnessing “AI” machine-learning technologies go from being harmless-seeming fun to capitalist tools of extraction that copy and sell their voices and art without permission...
ChatGPT Skyrim Mod Is A Robotic Horror Movie
1.5.2023
Proponents of modern AI tech—and this is our weekly reminder that it’s not actually artificial intelligence at all—have big plans for video games. Ubisoft is dabbling, Square Enix is dabbling, but those are just testbeds: for a more comprehensive look at what AI supporters want to see in their...
Amnesia Changed Horror Games. The Next One, Which Goes Open World, Could Do It Again
19.4.2023
Since 2007, when it released the first installment of the sordid survival horror series Penumbra, and especially since 2010, when Amnesia: The Dark Descent reduced first-generation YouTube gamers to a puddle of tears, independent Swedish studio Frictional Games has been making incomparable horror...
Ukrainian-Made Adventure Game Released As An 'Act Of Resilience Against The Chaos And Horror'
17.4.2023
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a horrific tragedy for tens of millions of people, but as we’ve seen, life still goes on between the bombings. And that includes making, and releasing, new video games.Read more
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Resident Evil Game
12.4.2023
In 1996, the very first Resident Evil game was released and since then, the survival horror series has become one of Capcom’s biggest and most successful franchises. While that original hit game—featuring creepy monsters, zombies, and a big ol’ mansion—the spooky series has expanded to include...
The Best Version Of Xbox’s Next Big Exclusive Won’t Arrive At Launch
12.4.2023
Just days after Redfall gameplay footage from IGN was lampooned across the internet for looking stiff and unimpressive, Microsoft revealed that its first big blockbuster of 2023 won’t support 60fps at launch. It’s another disappointing data point for a first-person shooter arriving as a new-gen...
8+ Action-Packed Games To Play After Resident Evil 4 Remake
4.4.2023
Ever since its 2004 debut on GameCube, Resident Evil 4 has been one of the highest points in Capcom’s long-running survival-horror series. Its fresh third-person camera perspective and more action-oriented gameplay meshed perfectly with the careful resource management and horrifying creatures...
Most Horror Anime Is Dark And Gritty. This One Is Gorgeous
31.3.2023
Most of the time, horror is ugly. Whether they’re chunky zombies in Dead Island 2 or grotesque titans in Attack on Titan, the objects of our attention are intrinsically repulsive to us. Hell’s Paradise tries a very different approach. The manga, which ran from 2018-2021, juxtaposes beauty with...
This Horror Game Turns Fishing Into Psychological Warfare
30.3.2023
Suddenly, my boat crashes. When I wake up, wet on a wooden dock in a town I don’t know, the lighthouse above doesn’t look like it’s pointing toward salvation. But I’m playing the disquieting new fishing sim Dredge, and I eventually learn that feeling out of my depth—subject to the changing waters’...
Dead Space's 'New Game Plus' Is A Good Reminder That Being OP Can Be Awesome
29.3.2023
I’d skulked my way through the dark corridors of the Ishimura, holding my breath the entire time. Never forgetting that at any moment, a deadly necromorph could pop out from the vents and make short work of me, I held my weapon aloft all the while. If I chanced upon an explosive canister, I’d...
This Horror Time Loop Game Stole PAX (And You Can Play It Right Now)
27.3.2023
At PAX East 2023, there was one game I couldn’t walk the show floor without hearing about, and after playing one route of Black Tabby Games’ Slay The Princess, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, either. The demo that other attendees and I played is available on Steam, and it illustrates...
The Week In Games: Survival Horror Ukulele Edition
21.3.2023
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Top 7 virtual reality movies to add to your watchlist
20.3.2023
Discover seven VR movies featuring survival, investigation and unexpected bonds
Silent Hill 2 Team Shows Terrifying Gameplay Preview Of Their OG Horror Remake
17.3.2023
2016 psychological horror game Layers of Fear is, in developers Anshar Studios and Bloober Team’s words, getting not quite a remake, but a “reimagining”—”a unified vision of horror” chaining together the stories of Layers of Fear, sequel Layers of Fear 2, all pre-existing DLCs and a new one, called...
This OnlyFans Creator Has Devs Begging Her To Make A Horror Game
10.3.2023
You open TikTok to find a woman rushing toward you in her kitchen. “My parents are coming over,” she informs you, her jaw snapping open and shut like a stork swallowing a fish, “can you help me clean?”Read more
Hands On With The Japanese Horror Game Fans Waited 15 Years For
8.3.2023
An updated version of 2008 survival horror Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse hits PCs and consoles tomorrow and places it in the non-Japanese world’s palm for the first time, bringing with it the game’s first-ever official English translation and a supposedly refined player experience. This...