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Amnesia: The Bunker Might Be This Year’s Scariest Horror Game
5.6.2023
I’ve played horror games completely drenched in blood this year—nasty games with bombs and meat grinders rendered in high fidelity detail, but none have made me scream until the more straightforward Amnesia: The Bunker. Read more
Game Pass Will Get This Highly Anticipated Horror Game Day One
30.5.2023
Amnesia: The Bunker—the fourth game in the legendary survival horror series—will come to Xbox’s Game Pass streaming service on the day it releases. After facing a few delays, the semi-open world horror game should finally be out on June 6, around the same time a handful of other titles come to Game...
Horror Game Legend Ikumi Nakamura On Designing New Dead By Daylight Looks
22.5.2023
Ikumi Nakamura, founder of game development studio Unseen and E3 conference fan-favorite, has designed three new skins for the popular asymmetrical survival horror game Dead by Daylight. The collaboration is part of a series of announcements developers made during the game’s Year 7 Anniversary...
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
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...
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’...
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...
New Mod Turns Dead Space Into A Creepy First-Person Horror Game
3.3.2023
The original Dead Space may not look as fancy as that new remake released earlier this year, but thanks to a new fan-created mod, you can play the original game in first person. Not only does this seem scarier, but it actually looks really good, too. Read more
Free Horror Game Is A Corrupted, Nightmare Version Of N64's Goldeneye
1.3.2023
The opening level of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 is one of the most iconic video game areas out there. The overcast skies, the low-res rock walls, the sniper towers, and the tunnel leading to an underground maze. Remember how it slowly causes your game to become more and more glitchy due...
RIP: New PS5 VR Horror Game Makes Things Scarier If You Blink
17.2.2023
The Dark Pictures Anthology developer Supermassive Games will release a scary, shooter spinoff for the PS VR2, Switchback VR, later this month. A new gameplay walkthrough trailer reveals a grim roller coaster ride into a series of nightmares, made even more gruesome by eye-tracking technology that...
Upcoming Dead Space-Like Horror Game Locking Some Death Animations Behind A Season Pass
23.11.2022
Callisto Protocol, out next month on consoles and PC, is a horror game that looks and plays a lot like the beloved Dead Space franchise. And like Dead Space, Callisto Protocol will feature some gnarly-looking deaths, both for you when you screw up and bite it, and for your alien foes when...
This Medieval Horror Game Looks Completely Disgusting (In A Great Way)
2.11.2022
Medieval-themed video games exist in an anachronistic league of their own, atmospheric blends of usually British accents, dull silver armor sets, and organ-bursting weaponry that, yeah, sure, were probably invented within 200 years of the game’s designated time period, give or take. Read more
IKEA Asks Horror Game To Change So People Stop Comparing It To IKEA
28.10.2022
In an unexpected move, furniture giant Ikea has sent a solo indie developer a cease and desist letter reviewed by Kotaku, demanding he make changes to his unreleased survival horror game set in an Ikea-like furniture store. Lawyers representing Ikea are claiming that the game commits trademark...
New Bodycam Horror Game Looks Freaking Terrifying
27.10.2022
Sometimes the scariest thing isn’t a giant monster or an army of zombies. Instead, it can be something so believable and straightforward that it feels like it could happen to you one day. Take, for example, a new trailer for an upcoming bodycam horror game going viral online. It only features...
Konami Leaks New Silent Hill 2 Project, Based On Classic Horror Game
19.10.2022
Just hours before its official presentation today, details about some Silent Hill projects were possibly leaked by none other than Konami itself. Way to tell on yourself, huh?Read more
This Low-Key Horror Game Is A Creepy Way To Start Spooky Season
10.10.2022
Every nation has its own traditions for folklore and fairytale. In England, those tales tend to gravitate toward a thinness between our world and that of fae folk or magic, and a notion that bucolic rural villages hide dark secrets of ancient pagan sects. From The Wicker Man to The Weirdstone...
Black Horror Game YouTuber Has Everyone Debating Platform Racism, Favoritism
26.8.2022
YouTube’s Trending page is typically full of easy-going content like music videos, comedy sketches, and game trailers, along with popular creators like Mr. Beast and SSSniperWolf. However, on August 24, the number-one trending video was a callout against the platform itself, with accusations...
Super Mario 64 Turned Into A First-Person Horror Game
5.8.2022
A guy gets a mysterious letter from his girlfriend, arrives at a castle to find her missing, and loads of rooms full of monsters...it’s the setup to 1996's classic Super Mario 64, sure, but it’s also very much also a survival horror pitch, which is why this new fan-made project is such...
Steam Horror Game Challenges You To Beat It Before You Can Refund It
22.7.2022
It may look and play like an asset flip, but Refund Me If You Can is nothing if not clever with its premise: You have two hours to evade a monster, get out of a sewer-like maze, and you must to promise—on your honor—that you will not request a refund through Steam. You are otherwise, and the game...