After scaring the crap out of players on Steam, DreadXP and DarkStone Digital’s The Mortuary Assistant has made the leap to the Nintendo Switch. And it’s brought along a friend in BEESWAX GAMES’ SPOOKWARE. Available now on the Nintendo eShop for $24.99, The Mortuary Assistant centres on Rebecca Owens, a recent Mortician Studies grad, who […]
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Horror game publisher DreadXP are stepping out beyond the PC market with a new development studio tasked with bringing the developer’s library of PC games to consoles. Announced today, the development studio, aptly named Port My Game Collective, is already at work with new Nintendo Switch releases of AkaBaka’s Sucker for Love: First Date, and […]
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3D Realms, New Blood Interactive and Feardemic unveiled a treasure trove of goodies during the Realms Deep showcase. Not only did DreadXP’s SPOOKWARE get a second episode, but the masters of remasters at Nightdive have unveiled the Ludicrous Edition of the 3D FPS classic Rise of The Triad! Kicking things off is Episode 2 of […]
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Indie horror publisher DreadXP has announced that they’ll be hitting the big leagues later this month with a booth at PAX East 2022 in Boston. Along with making their debut as a major trade show exhibitor, DreadXP will be showcasing four of their titles with new hands-on demos for Dread Delusion, My Friendly Neighborhood, The […]
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In the conversation of horror games, there’s a tendency to measure a title’s worth in scares. And while fear is an inherent strength of the genre, to entirely base horror games’ worth on that metric would be a disservice to the variety of experiences horror can offer. Much like PG-13 films fostering a love of […]
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Unfortunately, 2021 was still largely haunted by the ghost of 2020, and as such, escapism remained a vital component of day-to-day life. Luckily, there was plenty of it on offer. 2021 marked a huge year for perhaps the biggest name in horror games, Resident Evil. Not only did the series celebrate its 25th anniversary, but […]
To say it has been one hell of a year would be an understatement. Fortunately, the medium of horror was faithfully standing at the ready to provide spooky solace in these uncertain times. As the year comes to a close, Neil and I are counting down our top five horror games of 2021, a task […]
Over at DreadXP on Halloween, there was a cavalcade of indie horror games on display during its Spooky Showcase event presented by Torple Dook, doing his delightfully bizarre spin on Blues Clues; Chips Tips. A total of 87 horror game trailers from the recent past and the near future were featured in the sizable showcase, […]
Perhaps my favorite thing about BEESWAX’ GAMES’ SPOOKWARE is how it takes the crumb of an idea (Wario Ware but spooky) and runs with it to the point that it becomes something else entirely. SPOOKWARE started life as a brief microgame collection on itch.io, grew into a whole segment in one of DreadXP’s Dread X Collections, […]
SpookWare, a horror riff on WarioWare was one of my favorite horror game experiences when it was released last year, and now, creator Adam Pype (who also made the creepy No Players Online) and his team has built on that brief slice and made a fully-fledged road trip adventure game stacked with more mini-game madness. […]