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New Oculus Rift game makes playing videogames horrifying
Players enter a virtual living room where they’ll attempt to finish a first-person shooter that gets troublingly realistic.
Horror
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In praise of the videogame haunted house
All bets are off.
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Are haunted houses the original horror videogames?
NYC’s Nightmare: Killers2 makes a compelling case.
Review
Camp Keepalive is the Cabin in the Woods of horror gaming
Schlockvival horror? Let’s go with schlockvival horror.
Interview
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs writer Dan Pinchbeck talks about horror, genocide, and the scene so disgusting he had to cut it
Dan Pinchbeck pushed into dark psychological territory with Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, crafting a protagonist whose moral compromises reflect real horrors.
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Outlast’s developer tells us how it plays off of the realest terror of them all: adulthood
Red Barrels co-founder Philippe Morin talks about the survival horror game’s surprising aesthetic inspirations.
Review
Outlast reminds us why survival horror is important
Red Barrels’ debut makes you feel powerless all over again. It is “enjoyable.”
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A survival horror game that puts you as a baby in a crib, Among the Sleep is only getting started.
A Norwegian studio captures the fear of childhood with the eeriest of intentions. Also, trolls!
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Like a Boss
Grappling with the lords of darkness