Resident Evil is one of those series which rewards nosey players. There’s always notes, recordings, and pictures hidden in the cracks and crevices, all of which give players more info. Whether that be the structural integrity, of Mr. X’s trench coat or the fact that Grace Ashcroft has absolutely zero social life. But it’s not […]
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If you’ve seen any slasher flick, you know the drill: every youth is horny, and the horny must die. Despite Halloween not being quite as trope-riddled as some of its stabbiest contemporaries, its recent asymmetrical PvP adaptation did include a minigame where two players could slip into a closet and bang each other for buffs—but […]
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It’s like seeing an old friend: the clanking in the vents over your head, the way the ribbed tail passes over objects with a thunk-ka-thunk-ka-thunk-ka-thunk, the head-within-a-head, the screaming. You are here, you are back, you have been impaled through the abdomen and killed. I have played perhaps 20 minutes of Alien: Isolation 2 at […]
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Something’s wrong with me. No matter how many horror games I play, I just can’t get scared like I used to. Perhaps I’m the problem—maybe a decade of playing horror games pretty much non-stop has irrevocably altered my brain chemistry. Take Resident Evil Requiem, for example—that just doesn’t make the cut for a horror game […]
Read MoreToo much of a good thing, believe it or not, can be bad, even when that thing is Silent Hill. Especially when faced with the prospect of a new game every year, though franchise producer Motoi Okamoto has tried to reassure us that it’s totally a good thing. “Our aim is to, hopefully, have an […]
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As a former employee of Playtime Co., you’ve explored the depths of its horrifying toy factory and met many of its inhabitants, including Huggy Wuggy, who just wants to hug you (to death). Today Mob Entertainment, makers of Poppy Playtime, have announced a new game, and it’s sending you back to that haunted toy factory […]
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If there’s one thing I know about the upcoming Resident Evil film it’s that the director Zach Cregger is doing the utmost to stay true to the series’ roots. “I happen to worship these Resident Evil games and pull a lot of inspiration from the experience of playing them,” Cregger reminds fans in a recent […]
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1998 was a vintage year for PC gaming: Half-Life, Unreal, StarCraft, Thief and Baldur’s Gate all released in lavish oversize retail boxes, and it was just as busy in console land: Ocarina of Time and Banjo-Kazooie released on Nintendo 64, while the original PlayStation enjoyed Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2. Into this crowd […]
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Good news everyone: we’ve got even more Silent Hill: Townfall to help fill the void until its release. But instead of a short story or teaser trailer, we have 18 minutes of poor old Simon Ordell wandering around the abandoned (and increasingly hostile) town of St. Amelia. It’s the first extended cut of playthrough we’ve […]
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Need to know What is it?: Survival horror submerged in Lovecraft’s 1920s.Expect to pay: £41.35/$50Developer: FrogwaresPublisher: FrogwaresReviewed on: Windows 11, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060Multiplayer?: NoSteam Deck: UnknownOut: August 18Link: Official site The Sinking City was exactly the kind of ambitious but flawed game that deserves a sequel. Good ideas, middling execution? […]
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All roads lead to the middle of nowhere—specifically to the long-abandoned Camp Tivoli and its current proprietor and solo inhabitant, Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson). Billy was the breakout star of the original Camp Miasma and has maintained the grounds as a shrine to her past triumph. Like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, she’s a big […]
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We’re some ways out from the release of Resident Evil’s Code: Veronica remake, but that hasn’t stopped me or the other 1,999,999 eager players from wishlisting the game as Capcom celebrates an impressive milestone. “2 million biscuits for the 2 million of you who’ve wishlisted Resident Evil Veronica, thank you,” an official social media post […]
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First reported by Automaton, Spanking Exorcist developer Actor made a free “apology game” available to download after missing a planned July 24 release date due to overzealous Steam content moderation. In the simple apology game, you press a button to simulate spanking the developer as punishment. Spanking Exorcist’s trailer shows a game combining first person […]
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One of the most magical parts of Silent Hill f was that never in a hundred years did I think it would be something that Konami would greenlight. Not because it’s outlandish or a poor idea, I absolutely loved it, but because I just thought Konami had kind of set aside doing anything new with […]
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Capcom is on a roll. It had a successful year, what with the release of Resident Evil Requiem and Pragmata, the latter of which sold 2.5 million copies in just three months. And part of this continued success is thanks to all the remakes Capcom has under its belt. “One of the reasons for creating […]
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What a fantastic time to be a horror fan. We’ve got the most amazing films coming every which-way, countless new indie games to enjoy, and the revitalisation of some of the best horror series gaming has, one of which being Silent Hill with its upcoming game Silent Hill: Townfall. Part of Silent Hill’s revitalisation is […]
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Microsoft is going through another big ‘reset’, which is a nice way of saying culling, as it reportedly prepares to cut major games and studios as part of reassessing its videogame investments. But amid all the carnage, Hideo Kojima’s OD is apparently unscathed. According to IGN, a source familiar with Microsoft’s plans implied the upcoming […]
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Point and click horror can be really tricky to pull off, it can lack a sense of agency over your own actions as characters are funneled into certain choices. But it’s even harder to do well when the thing you’re using to point and click with is your own temperamental phone. Instead of using a […]
Read MoreHideki Kamiya cut his teeth on the Resident Evil games, working as a designer on the original and director of Resident Evil 2 before moving on to other things, like Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, and Bayonetta. Ironically, he’s not a big horror guy—he recently expressed a desire for a “non-scary mode” in Resident […]
Read MoreWeird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the […]
Read MoreOD is Hideo Kojima’s return to horror, and while I’d like to say it’s cloaked in mystery we actually know a fair bit about it: it’s co-written with Jordan Peele of Get Out fame, and stars Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and a posthumous Udo Kier. According to Kojima, early trailers may point to “a standard […]
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A story trailer for the gross-out horror game Ill dropped earlier this month, although frankly I didn’t notice much in the way of story: I was too busy looking at, as cataloged by our Australian goremaster Shaun Prescott, the eye-scoopings, skull stompings, zombie baby punchings, and other such goings-on to really hone in on the […]
Read MoreIdols of Ash looks like another of the droves of low-poly first-person horror games oozing from the 21st century collective consciousness, but it’s actually more of a climbing game. I meet the nameless protagonist at the mouth of a mysterious, fathomless pit. For some reason it’s my objective to reach the bottom of it. At […]
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Dead by Daylight recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a day-long fan event with panels, meet-and-greets, and crucially, a bunch of new announcements as Behaviour Interactive looks to the next 10 years of development. First off, the headlining news was a recap of Dead by Daylight’s upcoming Chapter and collabs, including the highly sought […]
Read MoreTwo years ago, Sega and Creative Assembly announced that they were finally working on a follow-up to our 2014 game of the year. Remarkably, in the years since Isolation there hasn’t been another stealth game that really captures its sense of dread—where most give their enemies set paths and routines, Isolation’s alien instead stalks you, […]
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I don’t know exactly when it changed—when I changed—but over the last half decade, I realized I really like horror movies. Before that I thought I mostly liked movies that leaned harder on suspense than jumpscares, or horror comedies that poked fun at the dumb slashers of the ’80s. But it turned out my love […]
Read MoreThe original Sinking City was a touch too ambitious for its own good, spreading its supernatural horror mystery across an open world that left it feeling thin. When I played a preview build of the sequel earlier this year, it seemed more focused, the kind of survival horror game with room for exploration within its […]
Read MoreDuring today’s Sony State of Play a release date for Silent Hill: Townfall was confirmed. It’ll land on September 24, which is pretty much exactly a year after Silent Hill f marked the full return of the classic horror series. The thing is, a lot of games are coming out in September. At a glance […]
Read MoreKane Parsons has a long and storied history with the Backrooms, what with his web series which includes the viral Found Footage installment. With this in mind I was never worried about the authenticity of A24’s Backrooms film, but I was still hesitant to see how well the creepypasta would translate to a feature-length movie. […]
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Welcome to Silver Pines. You might recognise it, if you’ve visited Twin Peaks or Alan Wake’s Bright Falls. It’s wet, it’s weird, it’s a bit unsettling. It’s also the last-known location of Eddie Velvet, a musician being tracked by private investigator Red Walker—that’s you. But who cares about runaway musicians when there are monsters trying […]
Read MoreFlowers and survival horror might seem like a weird combination, but there’s a surprisingly strong tradition of blending flora with scares in video games. The original Resident Evil had players fight a giant plant monster, and the whole premise of The Last of Us is basically “what if mushrooms were hostile?” The Florist takes things […]
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