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Record Sales For Scary Games, Reuters Dates Dead Space 2

10:00PM AJ Glasser | News source Reuters says scary video games are having “a record year as zombies, monsters, demons, and chain-sawing wielding psychos fight against the consoles, making video games the new home of horror for some”. More »
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Saw Review: Do You Want To Play This Game?

9:40AM Monty Phan | First off, full disclosure: I’ve never seen any of the Saw movies. I’m not sure why. I guess I just fail to see their appeal. Along those same lines, I’m not really fond of survival horror games, either. In this case, though, I have a very good reason. It’s because I’m a giant wuss. More »
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PC Saw Is Steam Exclusive, Unavailable At Retail

10:00AM Owen Good | Konami’s PC port of Saw, which went out earlier this month for Xbox 360 and PS3, will hit Steam later this month. The site Big Download is reporting that the digital distributor is the only place to buy the game. More »
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Saw Preview: Should I Be Enjoying This?

12:40AM Mike Fahey | At Konami’s E3 Booth yesterday I got my first chance to play the video game adaptation of the smash hit horror film series Saw, leaving me questioning the limits of my violence tolerance. More »
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Konami Gamers Night Round-Up

8:40AM AJ Glasser | Konami’s annual “Gamers Night” press event is known among video game journalists as being one of the longest nights of the year. More »
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Saw Preview: Condemned or Dragon’s Lair?

1:00AM AJ Glasser | There’s something terribly familiar about wandering around a dilapidated insane asylum with crazy people ahead of you and instant-death traps all around you.
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Konami Picks Up Saw, Releases First Screens

5:40AM Michael McWhertor | Konami has confirmed that it has picked up rights to publish a video game based on the Saw movie franchise, one of many titles abandoned by the implosion of Brash Entertainment. More »
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Saw Video Game To Torture Us Thanks To Konami

8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Konami is expanding its horror franchise stable, reports Variety, picking up the orphaned video game based on the Saw movie franchise, abandoned by the closure of Brash Entertainment. Do try to contain your enthusiasm. More »
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Brash Cuts Loose Nearly Completed SAW Game

8:00AM Owen Good | Last month, Brash Entertainment laid off 20 workers and axed some projects, but pointedly remained committed to publishing a game based on the film SAW. Now that has been cut loose. More »

Xbox Live Makes Horror Funny This Fall

2:40AM Mike Fahey | We know that directors James Wan (Saw), David Slade (30 Days of Night), James Gunn (Slither), Andrew Douglas (The Amityville Horror), and Marcus Nispel (Friday The 13th) can be scary, but how are they at making us laugh? Microsoft explores this concept this fall as they deliver original comedy pilots from the masters of horror to the Xbox 360. The concept was conceived by Gunn and Producer Peter Safran of Scary Movie fame, which makes a whole lot of sense, though I’m not sure the actual results will. So far my favourite pilot description is for James Wan’s Doggie Heaven, in which a young man is shot to death only to wake up in the wrong afterlife. Hilarity ensues! While most of us will have to wait until spring, Comic-Con attendees will be able to catch a sneak peak at the “Horror Meets Comedy Xbox Original Short Film Pilots” panel on Friday, just a small slice of Microsoft’s Comic-Con presence detailed below. McWhertor is on his way there today to check everything out, as well as purchase limited edition action figures for me which I will totally reimburse him for – promise. More »