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The horror of Resident Evil 2’s police station
The impossible spaces of Resident Evil 2 recall The Shining’s Overlook Hotel.
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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
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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
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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!
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Until Dawn and the "final girl"
Where does Until Dawn fit into the history of slasher flicks?
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Hear the haunting industrial wail of Tangiers in its new trailer
Dark ambient meets Throbbing Gristle.
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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
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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