Anyone who follows video games knows that action games are big — very big. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shattered sales records far and wide in its first 24 hours on store shelves and raked in a billion dollars in well under three weeks. The American video game market loves shooting things and we love doing it in a fast-paced way.
Not all horror video games are created equally. Some focus on creating an atmosphere of isolation and vulnerability. Others rely on shock to frighten the player, while making sure there’s enough firepower laying around to shoot horror right in the face. Confused? Perhaps this handy graphic will help.
Nearly a year ago, the Dead Space 2 production team crowdsourced one of the game’s signature kill animations, in which the player and a necromorph are locked in combat. “Meat Cello”, which you’ll see when the game releases, was chosen.
Watch the debut trailer for Resident Evil: Revelations for the Nintendo 3DS, and in doing so you’ll see the same footage the press were treated to during the new handheld’s unveiling last week.
There’s not much to go on, sadly, as a cinematic trailer with bad lighting is as poor a guide as to how the game will look as we can get, but solace is to be found in the fact Capcom say this is indeed a real game, and not a tech demo like so many other “titles” on show last week.
Five lucky Australians were allowed to play Alan Wake before it went on sale. The catch? To play they had to be blind-folded, driven to one Australia’s most haunted sites and strapped to heart rate monitors.
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Our first official peek at Dead Space 2 in motion picture form is here, a spooky teaser that doesn’t tell us too much about Visceral Games’ sequel, other than that Isaac Clark has a bad-ass new suit.
Resident Evil 4 was great on the GameCube. PS2 as well. On the iPhone, though, it wasn’t so great. Could an iPad version be any better?
Games have “gotten away from genuinely scaring the player,” and Half-Life, whenever it deploys its next episode, needs to get back to doing just that, the game’s boss said
