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Why We Crave Zombie Games – No Matter How Bad They Are
Over the last ten years, we have seen a steady rise in the popularity of survival horror games especially ones starring the undead. The notion...
by Amanda Dyar 13 years ago13 years ago

Over the last ten years, we have seen a steady rise in the popularity of survival horror games especially ones starring the undead. The notion of walking corpses really sprung to life with the release of the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead which was written by John A. Russo and directed by George...
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The Evil Within Has a Lot of Work to Do to Fix Horror Games
Today was the big sort of, almost reveal of Shinji Mikami’s first new title since forming his own studio, Tango Gameworks, in 2010. The game...
by Dave Walsh 13 years ago13 years ago
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How a Genre Classification Can Turn Someone Off Instantly
Tuesday marked the release of the much-anticipated Dead Space 3, the third in a trilogy of critically-acclaimed and big-selling series that has spanned this entire...
by Dave Walsh 13 years ago13 years ago
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Amnesia and Outlast: Survival horror is all well and scarier than ever
It’s barely a month since Resident Evil 6 was released. In the gaming community, it was hoped (somewhat against hope) that the game would resurrect the one-time...
by Robert Zak 13 years ago13 years ago
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A Soliloquy on Survival Horror
As I found myself picking off decaying zombies in a dim graveyard in Resident Evil 6, I couldn’t help but flash back to the early...
by Mark Loproto 13 years ago13 years ago
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My Hour With Misery
The other night I made a mistake. An awful mistake that, even today – almost two days later – I’m still paying for. Through my...
by Mark Loproto 14 years ago14 years ago
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The Key to Good Horror
Every gamer has their own concept of horror. Where one may jump at the sight of a ghastly image, another may scoff at the infantile...
by Mark Loproto 14 years ago14 years ago