Game developers often use loading screens as a handy delivery mechanism for imparting advice to the player. Whether they’re giving you a refresher on important mechanics,...
According to legend, apocryphal or not, the Commissioner of the US Patent Office (of all people) once declared that “everything that can be invented has been...
2024 was a bumper year for horror, not only on the silver screen but also in the gaming sphere. In fact, the genre has arguably never...
Over the past decade or so, the gaming industry has settled on a (quite inflexible) formula for any titles that are based on celebrated horror flicks....
When Alien: Romulus hit multiplex screens this summer, it raised a handful of questions. Some of the more burning queries included: “Who is the father of...
“Johnson’s Boner can now turn into a HOTBONER! While holding aim, hold the secondary fire button to charge, then release it to deploy your sticky payload.”...
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is not the first horror game to feature blind enemies that are hypersensitive to the sounds you make. House of...
For a solo developer (working against the inevitable time, resourcing, and technical constraints that come with that territory), Daniel Ferrer has set himself quite the challenge...
As someone who (depending on how charitable you’re feeling) could be described as either a tad deferential, perhaps too meek for their own good, or downright...
There’s a lovely moment, towards the tail end of Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One, in which British expat (and, with the best will in...
Putting aside the raging debate about whether it is, in fact, the “scariest film of the decade,” one thing we can all agree upon is that...
Prior to booting up Still Wakes the Deep, you’re confronted with the usual suite of options that you’d expect to find in any contemporary videogame. It’s...
If you were to shortlist all of the legendary horror films that are crying out for a video game adaptation, it’s unlikely that the first to...
Historical preservation has never been much of a priority in the gaming biz, with this commercially-driven industry preferring to chase after what’s trendy and in vogue,...
“Everyone knows who Jason is. Everyone can point out The Predator. And, of course, everyone’s familiar with the Ghostbusters!” So says Jared Gerritzen, Chief Creative Officer...
Maid of Sker hardly set the world on fire when it launched back in 2020, but it had its merits and deservedly attracted a cult following...
For as long as survival horror has existed, confounding puzzles and bewildering navigation have been staples of the experience. Granted, they did fall out of fashion...
Gliding downriver on a small ferry boat, we try to peer through the darkness ahead in the hope that we might catch even the faintest glimpse...
We’re now only a couple of weeks out from the launch of THQ Nordic’s (belated) reboot of Alone in the Dark and, as is to be...
Centering a game review around comparisons to other releases can feel, at best, kind of lazy and, at worst, downright unfair. After all, even when titles...
After a couple of delays, THQ’s belated remake of Alone in the Dark is almost upon us and we couldn’t be more hyped. After all, the...
There’s no shortage of memorable adversaries in the horror gaming space, with the Silent Hill and Resident Evil franchises alone doing plenty of heavy lifting. Nevertheless,...
The prospect of wandering around large, expansive game worlds used to fill me with excitement. Upon escaping the tutorial dungeon for the very first time in...
There’s no shortage of cooperative, horror-themed shooters on the market today. While there are indeed countless examples out there, a few that immediately spring to mind...
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