News

Gears Of War Creators Are Giving The ‘Dudebro’ Thing A Rest With Fortnite

Epic Games makes macho games that feature manly men. Gears of War, for example. But they’re also making FortNite, a game their lead game designer, Cliff Bleszinski, tells G4 should help the studio’s shed the developer’s “dudebro” image just a bit.


November 4, 2011
PlayStation

This Little Girl Is The Key To Surviving The Horror Of Amy

When the world’s population has been transformed into rampaging flesh-hungry monsters and the infection is spreading through your system a little psychic girl can make all the difference.


November 1, 2011
PlayStation

Paranoia, Madness, Suicide: Who Says 16-Bit Can’t Be Scary?

Nine students trapped in an otherworldly school building in which spirits are trying to kill them in grisly ways, if they don’t eat each other first; we don’t need high-quality 3D graphics where the downloadable PSP title Corpse Party is going.


October 20, 2011
News

Why George Romero Rejected The Walking Dead To Make The Zombie Autopsies

We scored a few minutes with the Zombiefather George A. Romero at the kick-off to AMC’s Fear Fest celebration. He shared his thoughts on undead sensation Walking Dead — and his plans for his next project, adapting The Zombie Autopsies.


September 9, 2011
Xbox

Science Determines The Xbox 360′s Scariest Video Game

Lots of video games claim to be scary. Amnesia, Dead Space, you name it, if it’s dark and things jump out of closets at you, it’s “scary”. Don’t let video game developers tell you what’s scary. Let science.


August 3, 2011
Mobile

Angry Birds, Infinity Blade, Fruit Ninja Converge In The Dark Meadow

Combining the slingshot controls of Angry Birds, the swordplay of Fruit Ninja, the gorgeous Unreal Engine-powered graphics of Infinity Blade, and the dark fairytale them of the film Pan’s Labyrinth, The Dark Meadow is the sort of iOS game nightmares are made of.


July 23, 2011
News

Can Comic-Con Save The Locke And Key TV Show?

Friday morning at Comic-Con, the pilot episode of the supernatural horror show Locke and Keywhich was not picked up by Fox for the (northern) fall season – will be screened to the public for the first time. On the eve of its unveiling, io9 caught up with series writer Joe Hill and illustrator Gabriel Rodriguez about all the keynote issues.


June 9, 2011
Xbox

Kinect Fun Labs Does Dark And Terrible Things To My Cat

I should never have used my cat, Rande, as a test subject in Kinect Fun LabsBuild-A-Buddy. I had a buddy already. Now all I have is the horror. Oh god the horror.


June 8, 2011
Xbox

Rise Of Nightmares Will Tie You Up In A Dirty Basement And Stab You In The Eye

You want a mature Kinect title? Sega’s got your mature Kinect title in Rise of Nightmares, featured in this E3 trailer that looks like one of today’s edgier horror films threw up.


April 15, 2011
PC

Compendium Of Freaked-Out Reactions To Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Ordinarily, you toss a video like this on YouTube, and every comment shouts it down as fake. But anyone who’s played indie horror hit Amnesia: The Dark Descent knows this guy’s skin-crawling, pupil-dilating, sphincter-clenching, headphone-grabbing reactions are on the level.