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Jimquisition
The Ugly Secret of Horror Games

| 31 Oct 2011 16:00
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It's Halloween, the day that St. Spooky was born for our sins. On this haunted occassion, Jim Sterling discusses what truly makes a horror game scary, and decides that the worse a game looks, the better it is at frightening you. Oh Jim, there are no tricks when you're around. You are only ever a treat. And sexy.

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Jim Sterling is the reviews editor for Destructoid.com and a game media gun-for-hire who appears regularly at GamePro, GameFront, GamesRadar and pretty much everywhere else. He has a tendency of making the Internet very angry at him, but he's alright sometimes.
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