Retro reflections by Matt S. Back when Dungeons & Dragons was being managed by TSR, the company experimented with a massive range of “settings.” These settings took the basic medieval fantasy of Dungeons & Dragons, and twisted it to fit with other kinds of fantasy. There was the high magic…
Read MoreGame Theory by Matt S. Unless you’re right into ultra-niche horror games, and have been for a while, it is very unlikely that you’ve played – or even heard of – Clock Tower 3. Released to little fanfare on the PlayStation 2 and doomed to immediate obscurity from middling reviews,…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. So it’s 2016, and Capcom wants to make an eSport. Specifically, Capcom Osaka! We really need to talk about this! If you want a quick and easy dissertation about whether this game is good or not, and whether you should buy it, then I’m going to…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. The first thing that struck me about Soul Axiom is what a beautiful game it is. Set within a “digital afterlife”, it blends surreal, Tron-like neon mesh effects with with more realistic locations, to great effect. There’s something oddly captivating about the contrast of, say, a…
Read MoreFeature by Matt S. Horror is a product of culture. How that manifests might be different from one example of the genre to the next, however. It might be because the work is tapping into deep seated fears that are a combination of biological responses to perceived threats – the…
Read MoreInterview by Harvard L. In Nude Maker’s latest game, NightCry, audiences are thrust into the clutches of a demonic scissor-wielding murderer. As a spiritual successor to the long running Clock Tower series, NightCry inhabits a unique place in the horror gaming canon as both a third person game and one…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. The Park is the scariest game I think I have ever played – though that isn’t exactly saying a lot because (a) I scare very, very easily, and (b) I don’t play a whole lot of horror games (see point a). Upon loading it up, you’re…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s have a quick talk about NightCry. Developed by Nude Maker studios and featuring talent like Hifumi Kono, the director of the original Clock Tower games, and Takashi Shimizu, the film director responsible for terrifying classics like Ju-On, among other high profile talents,…
Read MoreInterview by Hamza A. One of the true cult classics in the horror genre is Pathologic, a game about surviving in a plague-ridden, quarantined town, by Russian developer, Ice-Pick Lodge. Though the original game back in 2005 was something of a cult hit, rather than a best-selling masterpiece, the game…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s rare for a single feature to really let down a game, but unfortunately Dementium: The Ward, one of the few attempts to do a classical survival horror experience on Nintendo’s handhelds in recent years, is an example of that. Even more unfortunately, the remastered version…
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