Telltale’s The Walking Dead episodic adventure game continues with part 2 – Starved for Help. As far as graphic adventures go, Telltale is truly redefining the genre with The Walking Dead. Whenever I think about point and click affairs, I don’t think ‘action’ and ‘edge of your seat’. But those…
Read MoreAmnesia: The Dark Descent is one of the few horror games that elevates itself to (and maybe even beyond) the likes of Resident Evil, Dead Space, and Silent Hill. The cold atmosphere is one of the main highlights; without Frictional Games (the developers of Amnesia: The Dark Descent) expertly crafting…
Read MoreIt’s a bit like a rolling stone down a mountainside – though the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot didn’t cause a massive controversy in E3 (after all, we had Hitman for that), in the days since that rolling stone has become an avalanche of complaints over the extreme violence (including sexual…
Read MoreWhat happens when you take God of War-style rage, a hyperkinetic camera that makes Ninja Gaiden 3 look positively pedestrian, and Skyrim’s pseudo- early European visual style? Well, you end up with Bloodforge. While on paper that should be a recipe for success somehow it’s nowhere near as awesome as…
Read MoreSo I’m making my way through the Silent Hill HD collection at the moment (read my first impressions here). And naturally that’s got me thinking about all the great horror games that I’ve played over the years. It’s a difficult genre to get right, and certain famous horror games have…
Read MoreSo I’m making my way through the Silent Hill HD collection at the moment (read my first impressions here). And naturally that’s got me thinking about all the great horror games that I’ve played over the years. It’s a difficult genre to get right, and certain famous horror games have…
Read MoreDracula needs no introduction to most people. Created in 1897 by Bram Stoker, the character became famous worldwide, successfully redefining the Vampire genre and became the inspiration for countless additional works of fiction. So it’s no surprise then to see that one such work was Microid’s game adaptation of Dracula…
Read MoreDracula needs no introduction to most people. Created in 1897 by Bram Stoker, the character became famous worldwide, successfully redefining the Vampire genre and became the inspiration for countless additional works of fiction. So it’s no surprise then to see that one such work was Microid’s game adaptation of Dracula…
Read MoreI’ve mentioned a couple of times in past articles that I don’t like some of the directions modern horror games are going, such as Resident Evil 5. Action heavy, there is little of the tension and even desperation that the atmosphere of a low powered survival horror game can bring.…
Read MoreI’ve mentioned a couple of times in past articles that I don’t like some of the directions modern horror games are going, such as Resident Evil 5. Action heavy, there is little of the tension and even desperation that the atmosphere of a low powered survival horror game can bring.…
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