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Screaming Mad George left behind exactly one video game
Paranoiascape sent a burning brain through nine levels of hell
Horror
DUSKDOG
A broken artificial sun rations the light in DUSKDOG
ExoDive's frozen exploration game looks carved from PS1 polygons, and the comments keep mistaking it for anything but the Unreal Engine 5 project it is.
BREAKOUT BABY
A free demo turns Pac-Man into first-person baby horror
BREAKOUT BABY, from developer STH and publisher Assemble Entertainment, hands you an infant and a maze
tiengiungtong
tiengiungtong's rabbit hole is lined with bodhisattvas
Another chorus of can-I-play-this for a dreamlike point-and-click that does not exist yet
Resident Evil
Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film
Cregger says he set out to write a game as a movie, and mimicked Resident Evil 4's healing items exactly. The props do work the film cannot actually run.
Horror
A tank with no interface is Wrong Organ's next horror
Carcass Clad seats three players inside the Yksiö, every lever manual, in a city whose machines are dressed in gilded livestock.
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The Backrooms Were Always About Games [Podcast]
Plus getting lost in Goa and a blob of petroleum animates
News
A cosmic horror game inspired by the work of manga artist Junji Ito
The cancellation of Silent Hills, the horror game sequel that was to be led by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) director Guillermo del Toro, was a shame for a number of reasons. Primary among them was the fact that one of the collaborators on Silent Hills was legendary mang
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Sylvio’s bringing its ghostly screeches to consoles this Friday the 13th
Can you hear it? The moans in the static. Yes, it’s unmistakable. It’s saying the esoteric, analog-horror game Sylvio is ghosting its way to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this week, on Friday the 13th to be precise. Weird message to pick up on an oscilloscope, that. It’s not quite the original version
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Weird fiction continues to invade videogames with A House of Many Doors
It was going fine until the Gangleman came. He arrived in the total darkness that my crew and I had been plunged into after the Heartlight had gone out. As Captain, I had made the decision to not sacrifice my own heart nor that of any of my crew to restore the light, and so we made haste towards the
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Virtual pets get the creepy game they deserve
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Tattletail (Windows, Mac) By Waygetter Electronics The ’90s had a lot of creepy toys. Remember the adverts boasting that a new doll would actually crap in its diaper? What about those gross sn
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Surreal horror game OMORI won’t be a recluse forever
OMORI isn’t dead but it has been delayed again. The team behind the upcoming “surreal psychological horror RPGmaker game” has released a new trailer and explained why the game isn’t out yet. To make a long story short: the team admits it “underestimated the amount of time to create a video game.” Th