Silent Hill Arcade Shooter

I’m sorry, I can’t not post this. Kotaku.com has a bunch of images from the new Silent Hill arcade game. You read that right. It’s a shooter, set in the Silent Hill universe, with lots of fog and film grain. And zombies. That’s like Silent Hill, right? Fog + film grain + zombies = winning […]

Tairyou Jigoku

Thanks to Kotaku for pointing me to a preview of Tairyou Jigoku (lit. “The Overwhelming Hell”), a game apparently about making a school girl run away from giant insects. As you might have guessed, this title is by D3, publisher of ultra-budget titles like THE Zombie VS Ambulance. Now, normally I would just sort of […]

Rule of Rose Controversy

Rule of Rose is a game with some pretty disturbing scenes. Kotaku has a story about the game causing controversy in Europe. It looks like the debate stems from the game’s use of children as antagonists, as well as some misinformation about scenes depicted in the game (one news agency erroneously reported that the game […]

Web News Roundup

As we approach Halloween, the number of sites running stories about horror game seems to steadily increase. Here’s a couple of interesting links I saw today: Rumor Mongering: Silent Hill Origins appears to be in serious trouble. It’s all rumor at the moment (and it should be noted that employees who’ve recently been laid off […]

Siren 3

The MagicBox is reporting that Siren 3 for PS3 has been announced by sony. No details yet, but I think that rules. Now if we can just get them to release Siren 2 here in America.

Rule of Rose Coming

The official site for the American version of Rule of Rose has been launched. I am really looking forward to this game–so far it’s been a slow year for horror games. The game hits the stores September 12th.

Sadness Added

Thanks to forums member ghostsarecool for letting me know about a new horror game for the Nintendo Wii called Sadness. Developed by Polish developer NIBRIS, Sadness is apparently a “gothic horror game.” There’s really no details yet, but the NIBRIS site does have a couple of live-action movies to demonstrate how they expect the control […]

Rule of Rose Interview

Thanks to forums member RainbowDespair for posting a link to this insightful interview with the developers of Rule of Rose. This game looks like it has the potential to be extremely interesting, and the interview doesn’t have any spoilers. The game comes out in the US on September 12.

Quick E3 Roundup

Yesterday I got up at 4:30 AM, got in my car, and drove to the airport. I managed to park my car in the wrong lot, and had to trek on foot between terminals. Despite having left so early, I ended up just barely making my flight. I arrived at LAX at about 8:00 AM, […]