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Quintessential J-horror series Fatal Frame to begin crawling out of screens again
The Gamepad Obscura.
Survival Horror
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Placing faith in The Last Cargo’s atheist allegory
Life beyond the altar.
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The Forest to scare the living crap out of us May 30
We already knew The Forest looked freakishly terrifying. But now we know a date: it hits Early Access on May 30. Sure, the latest trailer for the survivalist (think Rust) survival horror game starts out innocently. It seems like the perfect getting-back-to-nature simulator, as you watch the characte
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DreadOut is old-school torture
The scissors-lady snippeth.
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Horror games should be intentionally un-fun, says horror game designer
Videogames are stuffed to the brim with “fun” little feedback loops, like level-maxing and crossbow upgrades and loot-a-thons. But according to Thomas Grip, author of some of the most hair-raising horror games around, such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the anticipated SOMA, those delicious system
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Daylight turns the mundanity of procedural generation into terror
Round and round we go.
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In Grave, the only thing scarier than your imagination is what comes out at night
Grave is a game that understands there are multiple kinds of fear. One is more a feeling of anxiety, which you will find in games with eerie surreal landscapes but without much action, or upon entering a Wal-Mart. Then, there is a much more nocuous, immediate kind of fear, where you feel your life i
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The distancing beauty of Betrayer
Look, but don’t touch. Or something.
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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
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Looks like live-streamers will make Daylight even more terrifying
Up till now, videogame live-streams have largely been a passive experience. Internet viewers are kept at a safe distance, where all they can do is laugh at how terrible I am at games. But according to the official PlayStation blog, the developers of Daylight are going to change all that. Zombie Stu
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Daylight shows off procedural levels, the spooky lady behind you
I hope the cell phone battery lasts longer than in real life.
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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.