I purchased a WiiU because I shipped a game for it and figured I should actually have one to play on. My first two purchases were (naturally) ZombieU and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. I’ve completed every Fatal Frame game to date (excepting FF4, which I got stuck in), and the series has always […]
I gave an IGDA talk a few years ago about the horror genre’s roots in Adventure games. You can draw a line of influence, I argued, from Colossal Cave Adventure and King’s Quest all the way through modern titles like Slender and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. This line, which crosses through all of the survival horror classics, is best understood […]
I played some good games in 2015. Here’s a couple of the best. Life is Strange Life is Strange is, hands down, my game of the year. The premise is easily explained (My So-Called Life + mysteries + time travel), but the feeling of playing this game is nearly impossible to put into words. I write a lot […]
I wasn’t planning on buying a next gen console, at least not for a while. I have a giant stack of games for older consoles that I should play first, and besides, I’m out of HDMI ports. But when a friend offered me his Xbox One for $100, I couldn’t pass it up. The only game […]
There’s a lot to like about Outlast. It’s a non-combat stealth horror game made by a small team of veterans that sports super high production value but keeps things simple. The sound quality is fantastic and the graphics are nice and it manages to be pretty scary now and then. It’s got a great mechanic […]
Hey, I finished another horror game! Crazy, right? This time it is Curse: The Eye of Isis, a throughly mediocre game that nonetheless has some interesting ideas (that don’t work out, of course). This was one of the most pleasant bad games that I’ve played in a while because it’s not particularly buggy and I […]
Given the tremendous glut of mobile games available today, it surprises me that there aren’t more horror games. There are a number of zombie shooters, a bunch of Halloween-themed games, and some interesting text adventures, but very little designed to actually scare you. Other than End Night and amateur-hour Slenderman knock-offs, serious attempts at horror […]
I had heard something about a new Alan Wake game, released as a short XBLA downloadable title, way back in February of this year. I jotted the game down in my mental list of titles to look up later and then promptly forgot about it. The game came and went without much of a murmur, […]
I bought a Kinect a while back because I wanted to play Happy Action Theater with my daughter, as well as Once Upon A Monster. Both games are pretty fun, and they use the Kinect in ways that work. The other Kinect games I’ve played, like the Wii Sports knockoff Kinect Adventures, are all universally […]
[This guest post was written by Bev Chen. Thanks for the interesting post, Bev! –Chris] Project Zero 2: Wii Edition is without a doubt one of the best re-releases I’ve ever played. The updated graphics and substantial gameplay tweaks enhanced the game’s fear factor, as I discuss in my review of the game. However, I […]