Putting aside the raging debate about whether it is, in fact, the “scariest film of the decade,” one thing we can all agree upon is that Longlegs is, at the very least, off putting. There’s something about Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ latest that gets under your skin, even if it doesn’t necessarily reduce you to a […]
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Prior to booting up Still Wakes the Deep, you’re confronted with the usual suite of options that you’d expect to find in any contemporary videogame. It’s your opportunity to customise things like the gamma levels, the assorted presentation settings, your HUD preferences and of course, the language that you’ll be hearing throughout the ensuing 5-hour […]
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If you were to shortlist all of the legendary horror films that are crying out for a video game adaptation, it’s unlikely that the first to spring to mind would be the one in which alien invaders encase people inside cotton candy cocoons, so that they can later drink said abductees gelatinised fluids through a […]
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Historical preservation has never been much of a priority in the gaming biz, with this commercially-driven industry preferring to chase after what’s trendy and in vogue, oftentimes at the expense of its own heritage. After all, there’s little profit to be squeezed from varnishing creaky retro titles that are well past their prime (and of […]
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“Everyone knows who Jason is. Everyone can point out The Predator. And, of course, everyone’s familiar with the Ghostbusters!” So says Jared Gerritzen, Chief Creative Officer at IllFonic, as we sit down for a quick interview with him on Discord. He’s certainly an authoritative voice on this matter too, given that he’s worked on adaptations […]
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Maid of Sker hardly set the world on fire when it launched back in 2020, but it had its merits and deservedly attracted a cult following of sorts. Which is rather fitting if you think about it, given the title’s folk-horror themes. As we pointed out in our review, Wales Interactive’s chiller managed to (just […]
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For as long as survival horror has existed, confounding puzzles and bewildering navigation have been staples of the experience. Granted, they did fall out of fashion for a brief period in the late-noughties — when games like Dead Space and Resident Evil 5 pivoted in a more action-oriented direction — but generally they have been […]
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Gliding downriver on a small ferry boat, we try to peer through the darkness ahead in the hope that we might catch even the faintest glimpse of our destination. At this point, we don’t really know much about the abandoned manor that we are meant to be ransacking, only that it’s situated on a private […]
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We’re now only a couple of weeks out from the launch of THQ Nordic’s (belated) reboot of Alone in the Dark and, as is to be expected, the publicity machine is going into overdrive. With new trailers dropping at regular intervals, amplified promotion of the game’s deluxe edition, and Creative Director, Mikael Hedberg, making the […]
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Centering a game review around comparisons to other releases can feel, at best, kind of lazy and, at worst, downright unfair. After all, even when titles do share particular traits, stylistic touchstones or behind-the-scenes talent, they’re often aiming for completely different things. As a general rule of thumb, unless you are dealing with a blatant […]
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After a couple of delays, THQ’s belated remake of Alone in the Dark is almost upon us and we couldn’t be more hyped. After all, the title is poised to breathe fresh life into what was once recognized as the granddaddy of survival horror (even though it predates that label by a good few years). […]
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The prospect of wandering around large, expansive game worlds used to fill me with excitement. Upon escaping the tutorial dungeon for the very first time in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, I distinctly remember being overwhelmed by the sheer scale of that virtual playground rolling out before me, and the endless adventures that it tacitly […]
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There’s no shortage of cooperative, horror-themed shooters on the market today. While there are indeed countless examples out there, a few that immediately spring to mind are Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Back 4 Blood, this year’s Redfall and, of course, the gold standard to which they all aspire: Left 4 Dead. With their latest stab at […]
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Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Yuletide is the unquestionable highlight in everyone’s calendar and, for a lot of westerners, that is probably true. After all, who can argue with the universal appeal of eating yourself into a stupor (with an excessive intake of gingerbread) and pretending to be enthused about the fourth bloody […]
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The Soulslike formula is one of the most prescriptive in all of gaming, with the kind of exacting standards that you normally don’t see anywhere else outside of dog conformation shows. Indeed, while every genre under the sun has its own predictable trappings and recurring tropes, the specificity of conventions here is insane. At the […]
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