Clik here to view.
‘Slender: The Arrival’ Review: Suit Up
Slender Man, both the game and the idea, just kind of appeared out of nowhere. One day the internet was all cat videos and impotent rage, and then the next there were these weird reaction videos to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Into the ‘Wasteland:’ An Interview with Composer Mark Morgan
Composer Mark Morgan’s work includes such influential games as Fallout, Fallout 2, and Planescape: Torment, as well a plethora of movie and television gigs. His moody, wide-ranging scores veer into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Damned’ Review: Grave Encounters
In general, I’m not a huge fan of multiplayer games. Maybe it’s the fact that I spent way too much time with single player games growing up well before the internet took hold, or perhaps it’s because...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Dead Effect’ Review: Space Mass
The perception of mobile-to-PC ports is changing ever so slightly, and as Steam and other platforms open to a wider collection of developers, it continues to blur the line between mobile and desktop...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘H1Z1’ Dev Offer Refunds Over ‘Pay-to-Win’ Accusations
The launch for zombie-themed survival sim H1Z1 has been a rough one. The game, which features players in an open world attempting to survive the zombie apocalypse, is a product of the team at Sony...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘H1Z1’ Early Access Review: Seeking Purpose
It would not be controversial to say that Sony Online Entertainment’s H1Z1 had a rocky launch. When it entered Steam Early Access last week, the open-world zombie survival sim was plagued by numerous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Books, Blood, and Barker: An Interview with Cris Velasco
Cris Velasco’s credits stretch well beyond horror — he has composed music for Borderlands, Company of Heroes 2, and the God of War and Mass Effect series — but he has recently become known for dark and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mobile Monsters: A ‘Mutation Mash’ Preview
Wading into the vicious but ankle-deep waters of phone gaming can be daunting, especially since the advent of microtransactions and “freemium” style games have made most people cynical of their aims....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Riding Bloody: ‘Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries’ Preview
In Woolfe — The Red Hood Diaries, you play as a stylized, attitude-heavy version of Little Red Riding Hood, whose main motivational drive in the game is revenge for her father’s death and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Evolve’ Review: Monster Hunter
Evolve, the newest game from Turtle Rock Studios, is a 4-versus-1 first-person shooter in which soldier “Hunters” team up to battle a human-controlled monster in a variety of alien environments. It has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘The Order: 1886’ Review: Werewolves of London
Not so long ago, people were content to play shooters entirely for their single player experiences. They usually featured gruff, stoic protagonists and featured stories about saving the world or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 3’ Now Available on Android Devices
Not content to terrorize PC gamers, Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 is now available on the Google Play store for Android users. The game, which takes place well after the events of the first two in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Monochromatic Horror Featured in This Week’s Humble Bundle
Each week or so, the team at the Humble Bundle offers a collection of games for a “Pay What You Want” asking price, the proceeds of which benefit specific charities. This week’s bundle features a slew...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Hektor’s “Jigsaw” System is a Dynamic Step Forward for Horror
From developer Rubycone comes Hektor, a first-person psychological game that visually calls to mind titles like Penumbra and Amnesia but features a quite unique little gameplay twist: as players...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 3’ Review: Toy Story
The appearance and success of both Five Nights at Freddy’s games was certainly unexpected. I remember seeing the first game’s logo and somewhat generic script font and thinking I’d probably never play...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Slender: The Arrival’ (PS4) Review: Second Guest
Slender: The Arrival is continuing its Bataan Death March of migration to all platforms, and the PS4 version is the most recent incarnation. It’s not necessary to go into detail about the whole of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number’ Review: Neon Bloodbath
The original Hotline Miami walloped the gaming industry upside the head upon release in 2012. What, with its fierce, memorable score, insanely bizarre plot, and unrelenting, violent mechanics, it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Tormentum – Dark Sorrow’ Review: Giger Counter
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to wander around in an H.R. Giger painting for several hours and don’t want to visit a museum, then a little title called Tormentum – Dark Sorrow might...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Uncanny Valley’ Review: Pixeljunk Nightmares
It has become increasingly difficult to get excited about games featuring pixelart. Making a game seem like it could have been released on the NES is nothing new and hasn’t been for some time now. At...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exploring the Real-Life Mystery Behind ‘Kholat’
Developer IMGN.PRO used a real-life event as the creative inspiration for their exploration-based horror game Kholat. Known as the “Dyatlov Pass Incident,” the situation involved a group of Russian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Phantasmal’ Early Access Review: The Call of Cthulhu
Phantasmal: City of Darkness is a Kickstarter-funded, roguelike survival horror game that subjects players to several haunted levels in a mostly abandoned area entitled Kowloon City. It combines...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Composer Jason Graves Chats ‘Evolve,’‘The Order: 1886’
Composer Jason Graves’s frenetic, experimental compositions can be heard in games like Murdered: Soul Suspect and the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider. In 2009, his work on the original Dead Space earned him...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Avant-Garde Horror ‘Tangiers’ Closes in On Beta
Bristol-based indie developer Alex Harvey has shared another update for his crowdfunded stealth game Tangiers, confirming there will be a beta in just a few short weeks. Tangiers was on its sway to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 4’ Introduces Jack-O-Freddy
Developer Scott Cawthon is going out with a bang with Five Nights at Freddy’s 4, the Final Chapter in the popular indie horror series. Its new teaser image even pays tribute to Friday the 13th: The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘The Consuming Shadow’ Trailer Hunts for an Ancient God
Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw is best known for his acerbic and scathing video games reviews on The Escapist, where he’s been gleefully eviscerating video games of the highest caliber, tossing even the sacred...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Composer Mikolai Stroinski Discusses ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is on everybody’s mind these days, and for good reason. It’s an open world RPG that not only lives up to such hype that it is being compared to games like Red Dead Redemption,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘The Town of Light’ Aspires to Be More Than Just Another Asylum Game
At first glance, The Town of Light appears to be yet another ‘trapped in an insane asylum’ game. Yawn. We’ve seen enough Outlast clones to last a lifetime, right? Italian-based developers at LKA.it are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 4’ Review: Animal House
On July 23, developer Scott Cawthon dropped a bomb on the public in the form of a formerly fuzzy bear that just so happens to enjoy eating people. The fourth installment in his horror puzzle adventure...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Kholat’ Review: Cool As Ice
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of nine hikers in the Ural mountains in 1959 has spawned dozens of theories and perhaps as many dramatic reimaginings. Not only that, the truth is equally as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Among the Sleep’ Postmortem: Children of the Grave
In the age of Steam, so many games get released that even substantive, interesting titles get short shrift. Most of them are reviewed and end up in a ‘Let’s Play’ of some kind and then fall off a cliff...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Fran Bow’ Review: Child’s Play
Adventure games, especially those of the point-and-click variety, are very generally not my cup of tea. They are reminiscent of a bygone era in video games, one in which gameplay often had to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Retro Survival Horror ‘Forgotten Memories’ Gets Director’s Cut
It is somewhat rare for the crew here at Bloody-Disgusting to write about mobile games, but we might have to make an exception for third-person iOS survival horror Forgotten Memories. The game, which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cult Korean Horror ‘White Day’ Announced for PSVR
Now that virtual reality is on the verge of becoming a reality (again), it’s time for some software — and not just tech demos — to be shared with the public, and it seems as though South Korea is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Telltale’s ‘The Walking Dead’ SSN 2 is Free for PS Plus Subscribers This Month
This is a good time to be a fan of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Game. The first season in the episodic series was free for Xbox Live subscribers in October as part of Microsoft’s Games with Gold...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Live Event Scares Fans Senseless
Freddy Fazbear has actually jumped off the screen this time, much to the chagrin of anyone who’s ever been knocked out of her computer with fright. At a live event in Cardiff, Wales, fans of Five...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You’re Not Crazy, It’s Just Another ‘Asylum Jam’
Indie game developers of all stripes are in the thick of the third annual Asylum Jam, a 48-hour event with a very specific purpose in mind, other than scaring the bejesus out of its spectators and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Alone in the Dark’ Dev’s Next Game May Be ‘2Dark’ for Some Fans
Frederick Raynal has the pedigree to make one hell of a horror game. The French-born game developer cut his teeth on both Alone in the Dark and Alone in the Dark 2 before moving onto various projects...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘The Escapists: The Walking Dead’ Review: Undead Pixels
I love The Walking Dead. A lot of people, it seems, love The Walking Dead, as an entity. It’s a slow-moving freight train of a thing, barreling into and over everything it encounters. It is a hulking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘The Park’ Review: One Day at HorrorLand
Funcom’s The Park is a game that can only exist in the age of Steam. It came almost out of nowhere, got some interesting press, which made it stand out among most indie games. That’s a perspective near...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Best & Worst ’15] T. Blake’s Top 5 Horror Games
Mr. Disgusting’s Top 10 Horror Films | 10 More Must-See Horror Films of 2015! | Kalyn’s Top 20 Genre Movies | Adam’s Top 5 Horror Games | T. Blake’s Top 5 Horror Games | Chris’ Best Blu-ray Releases |...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’ Review: Uncharted Territory
Rise of the Tomb Raider is the newest entry in this more gritty, dark version of the 90s action/adventure series, starring the titular Tomb Raider, Lara Croft. It is a follow-up to the 2013 reboot,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Rise of the Tomb Raider – Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch’ Review
In Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch, the first story-based DLC for Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft forgoes chasing down ancient artifacts and fighting secret societies in order to help out a young...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is ‘The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth’ Too Violent for Apple?
Reporting on Apple’s rejecting The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth’s being included in the App Store had even barely begun before the braying laughter of ridicule had begun. It was yet another example of how...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh’ Early Access Review
I managed to include Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh in my picks for the best horror games of 2015 before this review was finished, so in a way I’m burying the lead here, but rest assured: I’ll go...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The ‘H1Z1’ Split: How Long Will It Survive?
If you weren’t already getting enough of the post-apocalyptic life simulator H1Z1, then double the content and see how you feel about it. Is it a horror fan’s dream zombie survival game? As of February...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Underdread’ Review: Underdeveloped, Underwritten, and Underwhelming
In Underdread, you’ll play as a man searching for his missing daughter, Lisa, in an ancient castle, using clues left behind by both a detective and a madman to solve torturous puzzles as you traverse a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let’s Talk About ‘Resident Evil 7’
Almost anyone who is fond of horror games has experienced at least a single moment of panic over the future of the Resident Evil franchise. These are moments usually accompanied by intense feelings of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is the New ‘Doom’ Going to be Any Good?
We are t-minus just a few days until the official release of id Software’s reboot(?) of DOOM, the hyper violent shooter that, let’s be honest, if you’re on this site, you clearly know and love (or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Gates Motel’ is a Game and not a Typo
Gates Motel Looks like something I should backspace over, but no, it’s an actual thing. Grounded in the very obvious reference in its title, the game will require players to survive a night in this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fight Like Hell: A ‘Doom’ Origin Story
Marty Stratton, co-director of the brutal 2016 Doom sequel, wasn’t wrong when he stepped onto the stage at the Bethesda press conference during the 2015 E3 Convention and said, “…Doom is a special part...
View Article