horror
Horror-themed video games give you a glimpse into the darker parts of the gaming sphere.
'Silent Hill 2': The Five Stages of Grief (An Analysis) (Spoilers)
What it is about this game that makes players return to it again and again? Why do players still hold this game in high regard as not only the best horror video game, but the best video game of all time? What is it about this game that frightens you, depresses you, disturbs you, and haunts you? And why, after you turn off the PC or console after finishing the game, does the story resonate in your mind so vividly?
By CT Idlehouse6 years ago in Gamers
'Resident Evil's' Complicated History with Multiplayer
The terrors that befell Racoon City after the incident at Arklay Mansion forced strangers to band together to survive in a dying world. As the infection spread across the city, man helped man and selfish acts only left you alone with the gnashing maws of mutated fiends. For gamers, the viral outbreak played out quite differently.
By Mark LoProto6 years ago in Gamers
'Blair Witch' to Continue Reign of Terror in Chilling New Video Game
The original found-footage masterpiece was something that I thought was real—that is, up until I discovered it was all just a successful marketing campaign. That was one of the first film’s to go viral before the social media craze had taken over. And while the first movie still ranks high on my favorites list, its sequels do not. The Book of Shadows film is easily forgettable, and the 2016 reboot took me a few sittings to get through. One would think this franchise has everything to would need to become a horror powerhouse spawning out sequel after sequel, like the Paranormal Activity films. I mean you've got the creepy woods, unsettling folklore, occultist themes, terrifying demon-witch lady, and still, it hasn't seemed to ever duplicate the success the original had unexpectedly received. But it seems the evil presence out in the Black Hills Forest will get another chance to terrify audiences but this time it's all going down on the console. The next chapter in the dreaded Blair Witch saga will be in the form of a video game launching at the end of August.
By D.J. Rivera6 years ago in Gamers
'Dead by Daylight'
Dead by Daylight is an asymmetrical survival horror game that puts four survivors against one killer in an escape or die round. The killers have a weapon, a power, add ons and four perks, and they’re tasked with catching the survivors, knocking them down and putting them on a hook to sacrifice them to the entity. The survivor can take an item with add ons and they have four perks, and their task is to repair five generators to power exit gates to escape the entity’s realm. If a teammate is hooked, they can be rescued from the hook, but after three hookings, the survivor is sacrificed.
By Martyn Coleman6 years ago in Gamers
6 Perks in 'Dead by Daylight' I Love!
Dead by Daylight is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game for Steam, Xbox One, Playstation 4, and coming soon to mobile and Nintendo Switch. All that might sound a little hard to understand, but what the game is, is a lot of fun. One player plays as a killer, and four other players take on the role of survivors. The survivors need to work to restore power to five generators located around a randomly selected map in order to power an exit gate and leave the map. The killer tries to hook the survivors on a meat hook so that the ruler of this world, The Entity can feed on them. In the game both survivors and killers have an ever-growing library of perks to choose from to help them either escape or kill. For this story I am going to be covering some of my favorite survivor perks, as well as showing you how to use them.
By ImAM0nster R6 years ago in Gamers
Remember When: 'Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr'
Twenty years ago, a $60,000 movie exploded into a multi-million dollar success. Shaky cam filmmaking, a cast of virtual nobodies, a small town setting, and gritty realism helped sell the movie as a non-fiction account. For weeks after, people discussed the viability of the Blair Witch, some going so far as to spend a night in the ill-fated woods thought to be the resting place of the hapless documentarians: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard.
By Mark LoProto7 years ago in Gamers
How Can We Bring Horror Back into Horror?
In today's world, the horror video game genre is struggling. Well known games such as Resident Evil have turned into full fledged action games where you truly do not have to fear anything, and many others have simply become predictable.
By Freddy Wong7 years ago in Gamers
7 Psychological Horror Games You Need to Play
When was the last good psychological horror game released? SOMA, maybe, in 2015? But that was more a sci-fi horror game, albeit with some moralistic undertones. I would consider Little Nightmares, but I feel like that game should have been longer since its campaign was little more than a vignette that could be played in as little as three hours. The Silent Hill franchise hit a new low since its puppeteer, Konami, literally turned its legacy into a gambling machine. You can keep it on the ventilator all you want, you corporate bastards, it's still too brain-dead from all the horses you beat on top of it!
By CT Idlehouse7 years ago in Gamers
