It’s surprising that more stories aren’t centered around high school reunions. There’s so much drama inherent to the concept: awkward reunions, possibly painful memories, differing perspectives...
Halloween always seems like an easy time to do content generation for games-as-service developers. Just throw some candles around your game world, give the characters spooky...
As I wrote earlier this week, Alien Isolation was a perfect example of adapting a movie to the video game medium. Not only was the game...
No matter how much I love horror games, so many of them can suffer from the same issue: repetition diminishes tension. The first time I go...
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was one of the biggest surprises to me last year. The game adapted a tabletop RPG with tired post-apocalyptic setting...
We all know the experience of going through a cheesy haunted house around Halloween. You know there’s someone around the corner waiting to jump out and...
The demolition derby is the perfect template for a video game. It’s fast, exciting and focused heavily on the sensory experience. During the late 90s and...
Most video games rely on giving the player a power fantasy, which can be at odds with the ethos of the survival horror genre. Even among...
Video games and board games share a lot of design DNA, so it’s an easy jump for players to make. Horror has definitely become one of...
The Playstation 2/Xbox/GameCube generation was one that really helped evolve the horror genre. Silent Hill 2 and Eternal Darkness were landmark games, but it was probably...
The forest is a classic setting for horror. There’s something so ominous about exploring a landscape that’s so easy to get lost in and so easy...
Over the past few years, board games based on video games have been becoming increasingly popular. Doom, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Fallout and XCOM have all seen...
Ever since the first Silent Hill game, I’ve always loved opening up an in-game map. There’s something about having it on a separate screen that makes...
Even before the release of Manhunt, Rockstar Games was no stranger to controversy. Grand Theft Auto III was a lightning rod for debate when it was...
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