In case you’ve been (enviably) living under a rock these past few months, A.I. is something of a hot-button issue at the moment. The pace of its development, alongside its ever-evolving suite of capabilities, should be cause for concern no matter who you are. Indeed, everyone from white-collar office drones to factory workers and salespeople […]
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Amnesia has always been one of the more epistolary franchises out there, consigning a great deal of its storytelling to letter correspondences and fragmented journal entries. By now, it’s an essential part of the series’ DNA. You are typically isolated in these games and often have to make sense of macabre events that transpired long […]
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At this year’s Gamescom we tried to stack our schedule with as many horror (or horror-adjacent) titles as we possibly could. Rushing around the expansive halls of the Koelnmesse venue — trying to make each of our back-to-back appointments — we barely had chance to catch our breath across the jam-packed three days we were […]
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Compared to a lot of other genres out there, the Souls-like is still in its relative infancy, with most of its major tropes only having been crystallised in the last few years or so. However, despite the fact that it’s not been around long in the grand scheme of things, it’s already turned into a […]
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The Lord of the Rings worldbuilding is as dense as they come, with Middle Earth having its own intricate histories, complicated languages to master, and involved geopolitics. Between that core trilogy, The Hobbit and the imposing tome that is The Silmarillion, creator J.R.R. Tolkien really thought it all through. Yet even he left some wiggle […]
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“You left us on quite the cliffhanger,” teases insipid light-night talk show host Mr. Door, as he playfully admonishes his guest for the glacial pace of their output. Said interviewee happens to be none other than pulpy crime novelist (turned unwitting adversary of evil) Alan Wake, who is more than a little perplexed by the […]
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When we sat down for a preview of Still Wakes the Deep at Gamescom, it wasn’t under the circumstances you might expect. With horror titles like this, you ideally want to experience them in the right conditions. You know, a quiet, dimly lit room with no distractions or reminders of the outside world. That way […]
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When Friday the 13th: The Game was released back in 2017, I was immediately gripped by its unique take on asymmetrical multiplayer. Despite it only having a single match type at launch, and a paltry handful of maps, I still managed to sink dozens upon dozens of hours into what little content was there. And […]
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Pieces Interactive’s new reboot of Alone in the Dark is on track to be one of 2023’s most exciting horror titles; with an intriguing mystery storyline, a unique interbellum setting, and an emphasis on creeping dread over bombastic action. In a recent press conference, the developers managed to allay any fears that this is going […]
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“With all of the remakes going on today, you can never be sure what you’ll get at the end.” It was with this cautious scepticism that veteran game designer, Frédérick Raynal, initially greeted the news of his most famous creation, Alone in the Dark, getting another do-over. Which is an understandable reaction, given that this […]
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Sci-fi horror is all the rage these days, with Scorn, SIGNALIS, The Callisto Protocol and the upcoming Greyhill Incident all capitalizing on the voguish trend. Even Dead Space (a franchise that was driven into the ground by its own publisher and forced into complete dormancy for almost a decade) has managed to make itself relevant […]
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Out of all the games that have spun off into multimedia empires lately, few could have predicted that Dead by Daylight would become one of our most enduring. Catering to a relatively niche demographic, it doesn’t possess the same instantaneous appeal that helped catapult the likes of Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone to mainstream […]
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Alongside viral outbreaks and murderous revenants, horror games love pitting us against threats from beyond the stars. If you have even a passing interest in the genre, then you’re bound to have dealt with a few alien hordes in your time, as we just can’t seem to get enough of these terrifying close encounters. In […]
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As with any other medium, gaming phases through discrete cycles, with successive genres falling in and out of favour. The ‘90s were the heyday of mascot platformers, military shooters were all the rage towards the end of the noughties and, most recently, we’ve been living through the era of the FOMO-inducing live service. We are […]
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Since the genre’s inception, collectable documents have been a staple element of survival horror, found in everything from Silent Hill to Outlast. For years, resourceful developers have been using them to establish their worlds, tease upcoming threats, aid players in solving puzzles, and to tell self-contained stories. Indeed, it is because these files are so […]
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