So I missed April Fools this year. Sorry. My excuse is that I was on a plane over the Pacific, which is true. Next year I’ll have some totally mind blowing joke prepared for you all (I considered posting that Alan Wake had been announced as an iPhone exclusive, but I figured that probably won’t […]
This is a bit off-topic for this blog, but I wanted to make comment about the film adaptation of 20th Century Boys (２０世紀少年) a pretty killer manga by Naoki Urasawa. The manga is about Kenji, a regular joe convenience store owner who realizes that a story he wrote as a child about the destruction of […]
Thanks to forums member faDeD for turning me on to a new WiiWare horror/puzzle game called LIT. I haven’t had time to play it yet–as you can probably tell from the dearth of posts recently, it’s been a busy month–but it looks like a lot of fun. I am keenly interested in how horror games […]
A friend sent me a link to a crazy blog this evening. Cunzy1 1’s Dinosaurs in Games blog is blog in which the author is attempting to catalog (and rate in terms of scientific accuracy) every instance of dinosaurs (or dinosaur bones) appearing in video games. The site was sent to me because his most […]
About a year ago I was lucky enough to be quoted in German Game magazine Gee in an article about horror games. Apparently I didn’t come off like some crazy lunatic, as another magazine from Deutschland has seen fit to put my opinions to print. This time around editor Christian Schöenlein of play3 has written […]
Site regular and forums member death2all recently e-mailed me with a simple question: do I think that the proliferation of “action-horror” games is the death knell for the survival horror genre? Will games that put an emphasis on action, such as Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space, replace the traditional survival horror recipe of item […]
I’ve been in Japan for a month now. I signed a lease on an apartment at the beginning of November. I won’t have an internet connection until the middle of December. I am so behind on the happenings of the world (whoa, we have a new president!), particularly the survival horror world. My games are […]
Though this is technically my second Halloween in Japan, it is my first in a decade and my first in Tokyo. Halloween is not a big holiday here–it is probably better known as a day when foreign students get drunk and cause trouble than as a day related to pumpkins, trick or treating, or things […]
UK “lifestyle community” Xtaster was nice enough to hit me up for an interview about horror games as part of their Halloween-related content. The interview is live now, and it’s been nicely annotated with images from some great horror games. It’s really nice to be able to reach beyond this blog and talk about horror […]
Just over a year ago I had one of the busiest months of my life; when the game studio I was working for shut down, I suddenly found myself out of a job. In the span of about three weeks I had several job interviews, I flew to LA, New York, San Francisco, and finally […]