Dead Space
Scoring Fear: Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves on the Sound of Dread
Two horror composers on building dread from almost nothing: a muted brass collage, music that waits on the player and a small metal oil rig that screams.
Dead Space
Podcast
The Sound of Dread, From Weapons to Dead Space [Podcast]
I ask Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves how dread gets built before the scare, and why a game score has to wait on a player in a way a film score never does.
Review
Stasis and the horror of the known
An adventure game that confronts death through its optional stories
Article
Child’s Play
Why can’t videogames find a meaningful place for children?
News
Steel yourself for a horror-influenced new Call of Duty
Sledgehammer puts its Dead Space expertise to good use.
News
Amnesia’s Thomas Grip: "Right now we’re sort of in the slasher horror genre in games."
Horror games are currently in a rut with their slasher film mentality says Thomas Grip, designer of games that chickens like me stay far, far away from. Speaking with Rock, Paper, Shotgun about his upcoming title SOMA, he explained that scary games have yet to evolve from gory, cheap scares into a m
Article
How Dead Space 3 pulled from Dieter Rams and Instagram
Unbenownst to most players, the user interface of Dead Space 3 is a paragon of design. Deceptively simple but informationally rich, the horror survival gives you everything you need to live for as long as you can. We take a close look at Dino Ignacio, the man behind Dead Space‘s simple and elegant i
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Dead Space 3’s Fear System is the most horrifying audio you’ll ever not see
The first time I played Dead Space, I couldn’t sleep. I saw Necromorphs crawling on the ceiling above my bed and had to leave a night light on for safety and sanity. The rest of my play sessions were in the middle of the day, where those things couldn’t find me. My terror stemmed from some ineffable