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Tag: horror games

Video Games

Yahtzee Interviews Ivan Moen About Moons of Madness

Moon’s of Madness is a sci-fi meets Lovecraft horror game set on Mars. Learn all about the game in this interview with Yahtzee ...
By Yahtzee CroshawJune 20, 2019
Reviews

The Park Review – Not Quite As Amusing As Some

Developed by Funcom. Published by Funcom. Released on October 27, 2015. Available on Windows. Review code/copy provided by publisher. With Halloween arriving, creepy ...
By Nick Tomasheski Legacy AuthorOctober 31, 2015
Gallery of the Day

8 Horror Games That Will Have You Wetting Yourself

Getting you ready for the upcoming holiday with eight horror games that will give you nightmares. American McGee’s Alice takes the story that ...
By Schuyler J. Dievendorf Legacy AuthorOctober 30, 2013
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Handheld Horror

It saddens me that it will be some time before I can truly enjoy survival horror in a portable fashion. Think about it. ...
By Dan Dormer Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006
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Dreading the Shadows on the Wall

“[Games] are, in their superior forms, simply by-products of excess intellectuality, which I haven’t the honour to possess. In their inferior forms they ...
By Michael Zenke Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006
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Return To Ravenholm

“That’s the old passage to Ravenholm. We don’t go there anymore,” she says. Why, then, does she let her sorrowful gaze linger just ...
By Hitchhiker Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006
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Breaking the Fourth Wall

Breaking the fourth wall – stepping through the barrier between what is “game” and what is reality – is still largely a gimmick. ...
By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006
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Slow Burn Sleeper

The mid-’90s endured a glut of Myst-like point-and-click adventure games, and not many received fewer accolades than Take-Two’s maligned Black Dahlia. The film-noir ...
By Cole Stryker Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006
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Afraid of the Dark

I love survival/horror – the creepy B-movie coolness of Resident Evil, the disturbing mellifluous nature of Silent Hill and even the cyber-terror of ...
By Tom Rhodes Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006
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Pleasurable Genres

Genre, as a tool for cinematic analysis, didn’t really come into its own until the 1960s. Drawing on their literary predecessors, critics during ...
By Jon Schnaars Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006
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