Category: Features
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 23: Haunting Music
There are so many fantastic scores to games that can be classified as horrific in some way, largely because the score of any horror product is going to heavily factor into the actual atmosphere of the experience. Plenty of horror-themed games, across the decades, have had memorable songs and soundtracks, from Shadowgate and Uninvited and…
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 22: Uninvited
Uninvited Publisher: Mindscape Developer: ICOM Simulations Systems Released On: Amiga, Commodore 64, Macintosh, Nintendo Entertainment System, PC. Release Date 9/29/1987
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 21: Night Trap
Night Trap Developer: Digital Pictures Publisher: Sega Systems Released On: Sega CD/Sega 32X/3DO Release Date: 10/15/1992
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 20: Echo Night
Sure we’ve had spooky games since the days of Atari’s Haunted House, but the concept of a ghost SHIP has occurred less times in a video game console than I have fingers on either hand. The best of this amazingly sparse setting is still the first. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…Echo Night
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 19: House of the Dead
Mark B: House of the Dead has always been tied with Time Crisis for my favorite light-gun franchise of all time; the latter because its play mechanics are fantastic and easy to work with, the former because it has a fantastic concept, because hey, killing zombies is always awesome.
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 18: A Stroll Through Silent Hill
Alex Lucard: I can’t really say anything positive about Silent Hill as I’ve never been a fan. I Hated the first game due to bad graphics and controls. I thought the second was a huge step up, and then was let down by the third. I liked the fourth, mainly because of the outside the…
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 17: Creepiest Location
The Diehard GameFAN staff takes a look at the creepiest and spookiest locations in gaming.
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 16: Ghosts in Space!
Space is a creepy place. Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Event Horizon are examples of ways Hollywood have shown the terrors of the infinite void beyond our world. Today, in honour of the recently released Dead Space by EA, we’ve decided to look at some other games that combine space and survival-horror.
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 15: The Early Years of the Genre
Alexander Lucard:Everything starts somewhere. With Survival Horror games, the genre’s name may have been coined with Resident Evil, but horror games have been around since the dawn of gaming.
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31 Days of Terror – Day 14: Splatterhouse
Chris Bowen: Splatterhouse, to me, is what I think of when someone asks me to think of a classic horror game. I can’t think of Castlevania because to me, the game was less about horror and more about occult myths (there’s a difference to me), and the other classic horror games – not counting Maniac…
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 13: The Worst of the Worst
Alexander Lucard: Thirteen is often considered an unlucky number, and as such it is only fitting to use today as the soundboard for the games we feel WE were unlucky to have had to sit through. These games are our own piece of gaming terror because they flat out sucked in some way that they…
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 12: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Developer: The Dreamer’s Guild Publisher: Cyberdreams, Acclaim Written By: Harlan Ellison Systems Released On: DOS Release Date: 10/31/1995
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 11: Funniest Moments
31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 31: Funniest Moments Alexander Lucard: Even the scariest games have their comedy bits. From the serial killer who seems to have a crush on you in HellNight to the having to collect gay porn in order to get new dresses for your puppet in Shadow Hearts: Covenant, there…
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 10: Dracula
Although there are many vampires in the myriad realms of fiction, there is only one Dracula. Well, two if you count Bela Lugosi. Three if you count Gary Oldman. Four if you count the one in Castlevania. Five if…oh, hell with it. There’s a lot of Draculas too.
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 9: Fatal Frame Reflections
Today we take a look back at the Fatal Frame series and our most vivid memories from the franchise.
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 8: The 7th Guest
Many people point to 7th Guest as the zeitgeist that led us to eschew an older but more comfortable form of technology for a new, untested, but potentially superior one. Those people would have a hard time finding anyone to really argue against them.
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 7: The Cthulhu Mythos
There are a lot of really mediocre Cthulhu based games out there. Necronomicon for example, is a very slow moving and dull adventure game, but it does capture the feel of “The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward” pretty well. There are also some pretty bad Cthulhu based games out there as well. Dark Corners…
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31 Days of Gaming Terror -Day 6: The Games of Jonathan Boakes.
Although you probably don’t know him by name, Jonathan Boakes is one of the most influential names in both Adventure and Horror/Terror gaming. His games are often touted as the best in both genres, and any development team that claims to have never heard of him or his games have well, probably put out a…
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31 Days of Gaming Terror – Day 5: Where Are All the Werewolves?
If I asked you to name a half dozen video games featuring vampires, you could probably do it without thinking. Now try it with werewolves.It’s just a little bit harder, no?
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31 Days of Gaming Terror: Day 4 – Resident Evil Memories
Resident Evil is one of those series I just don’t get, but I also realize we would be remiss if we didn’t speak about it this month.