Developer Maboroshi Artworks and publisher Entalto Publishing have announced Sombras: negative frames, a first-person light-horror narrative game inspired by the Fatal Frame series that features photography-based mechanics. It follows a student who is spirited away and must confront her repressed terrors. The game was announced for PC and “all” consoles, which I take to mean PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch (maybe…
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. When you think of England’s iconic moors,…
Read MoreHorror, at its best, is the most intense storytelling tool that is available to us. A good horror experience – whether that be literature, film, music, or video games – is inherently challenging. It makes us uncomfortable, disempowers us, taps into the primal fight-or-flight response, and, ultimately, delivers some kind…
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