Search results for: “Horror”
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Halloweegee Time: Playing Horror Games as a Complete Wuss
I relate to Luigi a lot. He’s the sensible brother, sensing that the odds are against him and wisely retreating. Some may say that this is cowardice but I, for one, see the benefits of being scared shitless of anything remotely threatening. This applies to video games too so this year for Halloween, I set out…
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The True Horror of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
With a focus on horror and a return to its roots, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard breathed new life into a series that was struggling to maintain its following. This was achieved by neglecting common tropes in horror games, and instead plunging the player into a horrific setting: the sinking feeling that takes control of you…
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Horror Games That Don’t Rely On the ‘Mental Illness is Scary’ Trope
If I asked you to think about the average horror game setting, then chances are that your mind probably wandered to an abandoned mental hospital, or a spooky forest inhabited by “crazy people.” I know mine does. The horror game market is so overly saturated in games about mentally ill villains, that it’s clear many…
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Are Horror Games Becoming Gradually Less Ableist?
It’s dark, you’re alone, and you find yourself walking down a long, dank and dirty hallway. Something is groaning and screaming in another room, so you look for a weapon. In a set of drawers filled with unwashed medical equipment you find a meat cleaver. The wailing is getting louder now, and you hear desperate…
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Asylum Jam Returns To Show Horror Without Stigma
Now in its fourth year, Asylum Jam is a 48 hour game jam where developers must create a horror game. There is just one catch. “The only rule,” explains Jam creator Lucy Morris, “is that you can’t use inaccurate stereotypes.” This includes using, “psychiatric institutes, medical professionals or violent/antipathic/’insane’ patients as settings or triggers.” The…
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7 Party Games For New Year’s Eve
It is hard to actually have fun on New Year’s Eve. So why bother going out? A party at home has long been the refugee for anyone wanting to avoid the overpriced and over-hyped night. It is also a perfect excuse to break out some party and multiplayer games. We’ve made a list of eight titles,…
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No Romance in BioWare’s Anthem Could Open New Doors
BioWare games have been marked with a variety of romance options, ranging from getting together with Dorian in the Dragon Age series, to becoming involved with Silk Fox in Jade Empire. According to Tech Times, Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn was the first BioWare game to let the player’s avatar form a couple with…
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Every Smash Bros Ultimate Character Ranked By Their Revolutionary Commitment
Super Smash Bros Ultimate features the biggest roster seen so far in the series. With so many characters, how will you pick? You need to know where each character stands on punching Nazis. Who is most committed to replacing capitalism with a worker-owned command economy. Which is most committed to revolutionary socialism? We’ve ranked them…
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6 Upcoming & Recent Games That Aren’t Red Dead Redemption 2
As you might well have heard, Red Dead Redemption 2 is releasing this week. The huge game from Rockstar has come at the cost of 100 hour weeks. It has provoked some interesting conversation about the ongoing state of working in the video games industry. Big releases in the last quarter of the year tend…
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Stop Hiding Behind Culture
The “defense” of culture stalls diversity. It’s the argument people make when they excuse a game that fosters the industry’s series of male-driven story lines. These story lines almost always feature a protagonist in some period of history where “it wouldn’t make sense” to have a representative amount of non-white, non-male people. Pushing Limits This…
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Disconnected: A Marxist Interpretation
Game developer Reb is immediately frank about their project Disconnected. They refer to it as a short walking simulator “made mainly as a test as my first game.” This test succeeds in that it conveys a sense of horror through the character’s navigation of a tenuous unknown. The game is played from a third person…
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Art as an Evocative Tool: A Talk with Lucah Developer melessthanthree
On Tuesday, August 21st, indie game developer melessthanthree released their new title, Lucah: Born of a Dream. A Kickstarter funded action-adventure game that combines the powerful aspects of storytelling, role-playing, and survival-horror, Lucah tells the story of the Marked Child, cursed to have their personal demons manifest as real demons wherever they go. Lucah must face…
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The Top 5 Liberal Agendas in Gaming
Libtards are the worst, am I right? It seems like you can’t go a day without hearing something about “healthcare for all” or “representation needs to be expanded” blah blah blah. Who wants to hear it? Who has time for it? It seems like nowadays if you want to avoid this dribble your best option…
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Why is a Kiss More Terrifying Than a Zombie?
Picture the scene; you’ve just dropped cold hard cash on a new release, something you’ve been wanting to play for a while. The reviews were glowing, every trailer teased more and more information to get you worked up into a frenzy, the main character is a female, but it’s okay because she’s hot and you’re…
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New Steam Game Gay World Promotes Homophobia, Criminalizes Victims
Steam has been on a long decline ever since the good intentioned Greenlight program. A program that failed due to having no form of moderation aside from a voting system to approve games. In their attempt to fix this issue they made Steam Direct, so that if you want to get published all you have…
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Hidden Agenda or Gay Agenda?
I played Hidden Agenda with a fellow bisexual woman and two straight men but we were all in agreement: “Becky and Felicity are definitely banging.” That’s right, the actual hidden agenda of the game is the gay agenda. Hidden Agenda is a recent release by Supermassive Games, the developers who also made Until Dawn. It’s…