News by Matt S. Amnesia has become one of the higher-prestige horror properties over the years, which is particularly impressive given that the developers and publishers behind them don’t churn them out at a rapid rate. Good horror takes time to percolate, and it has been a long wait between…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Earlier this year we reviewed Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York. It was a decent attempt to bring White Wolf’s modern gothic pen-and-paper vision to video game consoles via the visual novel medium. The developers are on to something with this license and property,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I have a funny story about Shadow Man. Well, less “funny” than “if you don’t laugh you’ll cry”, really. When Shadow Man came out on the Nintendo 64, I snapped it up as a rare example of a horror-themed game on that console. And I really…
Read MoreBook review by Harvard L.“I have a friend who told me that he couldn’t sleep in the same room as the box Resident Evil came in; he had to move it out of his bedroom every night. Another fan told me he played it around age ten. He lived in…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. We’ve seen a surge of horror-themed multiplayer games, in which one person plays as the monster, and the others scramble to avoid becoming its prey. Friday the 13th, Dead by Daylight, Dusk, Predator and others have all tried their hand at the tricky balance between monster…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The sequel to Death End re;Quest 2 is a game that I have been looking forward to a great deal. The original was an amazing mix of high-tension thriller and fanservicey JRPG, and this new game looked like it would be upping the odds on either…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Death End re;Quest was one of my favourite releases last year. Idea Factory managed to take its typically ridiculous fan service and apply it to something that was in every other way a tense thriller… and against all odds that truly oddball pairing worked. It really…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I must admit that I miss classic horror games. Horror, for me, peaked back on the PlayStation 2 with the likes of Project Zero, Silent Hill, Clock Tower and Haunting Ground, and we’ve seen over the years since that mainstream horror has become progressively more sanitised.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. As anyone who knows me knows, I rather like when eroticism and dark narratives combine. Heck, I’ve even written a visual novel along those lines myself. It doesn’t happen all that often in the games industry because video games remain reticent in dealing with erotic themes…
Read MoreWe have a special guest on the podcast this week! Philip J Reed, the author of an upcoming book on Resident Evil that is being published by Boss Fight Books jumps on the podcast to chat with us about his book, Resident Evil and his history with the series, and…
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