Everybody hates you (in Dropsy the Clown)
The trials and tribulations of a repulsive sweaty boneless clown-thing.
Horror
The horror of Resident Evil 2’s police station
The impossible spaces of Resident Evil 2 recall The Shining’s Overlook Hotel.
Sci-fi horror game SOMA’s newest trailer will leave you feeling alone and afraid
Sci-fi survival horror game SOMA wants to mess with your head in every way imaginable. Set in a remote underwater research facility doing some wacky shit with robots and artificial intelligence, the player must survive the aftermath of its collapse into chaos. While recalling visuals from BioShock‘s
Stray Cat Crossing will spirit you away and into a nightmare
Like watching Disney movies during a bad trip Can’t sleep, baby’ll eat me Who said cartoons are just for kids? Welcome to Disney’s Midnight Channel It’s like Zelda, but…I need an adult
Here’s a game that lets you wipe the smile off a stupid emoji’s face
Some people like smiling at strangers and saying hello to passersby. Bless their souls, those creepily friendly weirdoes! I, as you may have guessed, am not one of those people. Nothing warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart quite like strangers giving me the “Fuck right off!” look. As such, Boom!
Until Dawn and the "final girl"
Where does Until Dawn fit into the history of slasher flicks?
Until Dawn is a smart riff on horror-movie tropes
Play as a bunch of asshole teens who reenact the past half-century of scary movies.
P.T. has been out a year and people are still uncovering its secrets
It’s been exactly a year since P.T. first graced the PlayStation Store as a playable teaser for Silent Hills. Since last August, the notorious demo has gone on to become a relic of a game that will never be, but also a strong standalone experience, and a reminder of what a little risk and creative f
Reel in horror at Layers of Fear’s freakish twist on fine art
There’s something eerie about da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine—that distant stare, the strangely serpentine choice of rodent, the utter darkness of the backdrop, perhaps? Even before the trailer for Layers of Fear transforms the subject of da Vinci’s portrait work into a skeletal atrocity gripping a s
Who said P.T. was dead?
A corridor out of focus. Off-white walls, familiar photos, and a familiar bend up ahead. Clock reads 23:59. Like always. Yes—it’s that goddamned hallway again. Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s sinister Silent Hills teaser P.T. has been remade in Unity, charmingly called PuniTy. Its creator, Far
Hear the haunting industrial wail of Tangiers in its new trailer
Dark ambient meets Throbbing Gristle.
Fran Bow’s upcoming horror depicts a young girl’s trauma after losing her parents
Fran Bow has been in production for three years but only now has it got its first official trailer. Oh, and a release date of August 27th. Before you get to watching that trailer, a warning: it is not for the faint of heart. The game is about Fran Bow, a young girl struggling with seeing her own par
Oxenfree puts a supernatural twist on wartime numbers stations
There’s something creepy about radios. They’re an iconic device in the Silent Hill series, which used them to mark the presence of nearby monsters with an eerie, warped static. Horror movies like to possess them to play spooky old-timey tunes at unexpected times, or convey cryptic warnings to unsusp
Profiles of the Forgotten is "a videogame within a movie"
“Have you ever loved someone so much, that you could step out of time?” These are the words that introduce Profiles of the Forgotten, a project that lies somewhere between a traditional game and a film. The first project by Los Angeles developer Pablo Leon-Luna, Profiles of the Forgotten is describe
Devastated Dreams will finally give airtime to the terror of becoming a mom
Dadification is out. Momification has only just begun.
This videogame is basically The Brave Little Toaster but with a lot more horror
If there is a hell for electric toasters—or humans, for that matter— it is obviously an artisanal toast bar, the kind of place where artisanal butter comes with sea salt on the side lest you find yourself unable to control the salinity of your bread topping. Andrew Wang’s Lullaby for an Electric Toa
SOMA and the horror of perception
The “fantastical anuses” (among other things) of SOMA.
This week’s Playlist pick is the abstract, spectral Sylvio
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. SYLVIO (PC, MAC) BY APOSTROPHE Were you someone who watched The Conjuring and wished you could be a badass ghost hunter like the Warrens? Well, they made a horror game for you (and your poor
From Fez to It Follows: a conversation with Disasterpeace
We talk with Disasterpeace about videogames and scoring this year’s best horror film.
Tonight You Die draws out our fear in a concrete terrorscape
A brutalist stab of the dark.
Prepare to question unreality with SOMA’s machine-horror on September 22nd
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick Humanity’s centuries-old attempt to understand our own consciousness, from philosophy to biology, can basically be summed up by one single image: a dog trying to chase its own tail. From Descartes’s declaration
Learn to love your inner and outer hideousness with Monster Dress Up
You are a monster. You’re big, you’re scaly, and you’re beautiful.
Perception vows to enhance your vision using echolocation
The terror of Perception, a first-person horror game currently raising funds on Kickstarter, is that entire world around you appears to be hewn from stone. What chance do you stand in a universe where everything is so unnervingly solid? The manor in which Perception is set is not actually hewn from
The terror of surrealist films stripped down to a traumatizing bone
Frank wakes up covered in blood and I may never sleep again. Game developer Daniil Ermakov, also known as Da Neel, combines the horrors of cult surrealist directors David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky and produces a mish-mash of terror and humor in the face of human trauma. A Box Full of Joy is a s
The spirit of P.T. will live on after all
P.T. was a mirage. Thirsty for horror, we supped from its frightening wellspring, it sending shudders through our bodies and electric in our hairs. We were revitalized. Then it was taken from us. Konami shut it all down, both P.T. and the game it acted as a teaser for, the now vaporware survival hor