I’ve been playing a few first-person horror games lately, and they’ve all been quite good at keeping me uneasy. There’s something about that first-person perspective that makes immersing myself in the game very easy, allowing me to really...

There are a lot of journalists and game developers out there trying to figure out how to keep the market profitable for everyone, especially in the triple A market. Games are selling millions of copies yet still showing losses; something ...

I've found some neat horror games while talking to other fans of the genre. One of the more intriguing ones was a game that was simply called SCP-087, or sometimes The Stairwell. The name alone seemed cold yet evocative. What did it stand...

How do you scare a player when they can’t die? With no combat and only a handful of ways to earn an inconvenient reload, the episodic Decay series does all of its work through atmosphere and subtle music. Sure, there are a few jump scares...

A Nightmare on Elm Street for the NESisn’t a very good horror game (or just regular kind of game, either). The stock, goofy enemies make the whole game play out like a child’s Halloween coloring book, ruining any possibility that the game...

Clock Tower is one of a very select handful of games where you can actually say that it isn’t the same twice. Through a series of neat tricks, the game just rolls with whatever you happen to want to do; building the plot based on how you...

“Help Me!” Splatterhouse could have just been an excellent brawler if not for those words. Sure, it had horrific elements in its oozing, seeping enemy design and in its creepy atmosphere, but I wouldn’t have called it a horror game until...

Sweet Home is one of the earliest and arguably most important entries in survival horror. If the fact that it was the inspiration for Resident Evil isn’t enough (right down to the opening door loading screens), then there’s the chilling ...

Saturn 9 managed to do a lot of great stuff in a short amount of time. Seriously, if you want to have a couple of good scares and only have a half hour to play, it'll do the job. It's also got some really neat ideas that I haven't seen i...

For console horror, Resident Evil is where it all began. It may not be the first, but it’s the game that put the genre in people’s minds. It was my first horror game, and it completely changed the way I looked at games. Having to count bu...

In my first run playing I Can't Escape, I didn't make it out. There is a way out of the dungeon, and I felt like I was getting pretty close for a while, but then I started to fall down. And down. And down. It should have been easy to dodg...

I made a pretty tall claim a few months ago, saying that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate was the worst handheld Castlevania game besides Castlevania: The Adventure (The Castlevania Adventure? I can't figure out this box art)...

My first gaming experience was at a neighbor's house playing Joust on his Atari. I hated it. I hated having to hit the button over and over to fly, I hated that I didn't feel like I could control much of anything, and I hated that the cha...

If you’d told me a few years ago that I would be playing a soda drinking simulation and enjoying it, I would have laughed. Then I probably would have stopped laughing if you hung around, just standing there not saying anything. Mocking me...

Machine Men with Machine Hearts In perhaps his first true talking role, Charlie Chaplin spoke words that even today leave me shaken just to hear them. The English language can be a misshapen, amorphous thing that often seems built purely...