‘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 ArticleComposer 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 ArticleAvant-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 Article‘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 Article‘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 ArticleComposer 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 Article‘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 Article‘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 Article‘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 Article‘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 Article‘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 ArticleRetro 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 ArticleCult 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 ArticleTelltale’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 Article‘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 ArticleYou’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 Article‘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 Article‘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 Article‘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 Article[Best & Worst ’15] T. Blake’s Top 5 Horror Games
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