News by Matt S. Ever-prolific publisher, NISA, is at it again, having announced two games this week. We’re getting a new horror game with a deeply Japanese aesthetic as well as a new roguelike. The horror game is called Shadow Corridor, and it sounds like it might be a bit…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Developers; if you’re going to give players a map, but not tell them where they are on the map, that in itself is fine. I actually appreciate the commitment to the “old school” there, and the lack of hand-holding. However. If making sense of the map then…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. PQube is publishing Tormented Souls – a classic-style horror game, and it’s doing so soon! The game launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (via Steam) later this month, on August 27. It’s coming to last generation consoles and Nintendo Switch too, but we’ll need…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I’m a big fan of Dead Space. The original game did “action-horror in space” astoundingly well, and was an experience that was dripping with atmosphere, taut, intense and creative. Unfortunately, EA’s about to ruin all of that. The publisher has tasked Motive – the developer behind…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ve been fortunate in that I was able to go into Doki Doki Literature Club Plus having never played the original, and also not knowing a whole lot about it. I was aware that it was a horror game and the initially bright and bubbly presentation…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I love horror. I love the genre a lot. I play a lot of horror games, too, and over the years I have noticed that there is a disparity between the topics and approaches that game developers take to horror, and what is possible in the…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. One of the more enjoyable horror experiments in recent years has been the Dark Pictures Anthology. Developer, Supermassive Games, committed itself to a series of horror experience that shares some things in common – a cinematic approach to horror and some standard gameplay conventions – while…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With a heavy dose of the same kind of 19th-century English countryside gothic aesthetic that was instrumental in making Wuthering Heights my favourite book of all time, Maid of Sker hits the ground running. This game is beautiful and, while it is only very (very) loosely…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. (Apologies that there’s some background noise in this video – there was a heavy rain storm going on as I recorded the voice track for this one) Resident Evil Village is the latest in Capcom’s long-running series, and it’s also one of the most different entries…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Resident Evil Village is not what I expected. At all. I’d kept myself in the dark about the game pre-release so that I could go in without having PR-set expectations, and so, I went in expecting a Resident Evil game. You know, zombies and stuff. You…
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