Halloween Horror Games You Haven’t Played – But Should

Posted by Nelson Williams | October 30, 2009

Everyone out there is spitting up their own lists of the same creepy survival horror games right now, the only difference being which Silent Hill or Resident Evil is parked were on the countdown. Screw that.

I’m here to help you people out, and that’s what I’m going to do. Not every good horror game had the backing of a major producer, and you certainly won’t find them all on the PS3 and Xbox 360. May I instead present a list of the more obscure, more interesting horror games to crawl out into the gaming scene? Check out these titles as they lurk in the shadows, ready to suckle gently at your soul.

The Top 7 Scariest Games You’ve Never Played, courtesy of Games Radar.

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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Posted by Nelson Williams | June 30, 2009

Back to the old horror mines we go…

Those who know me, know I love some Silent Hill. The first game is probably my favourite title, with the second game facing off in a pipe/whip cage match thunderdome duel with Castlevania. I’ve been unnaturally quiet on the subject of Silent Hill so far because the recent offerings from that dismal town have been lurching towers of suck and fail.

This may well change.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a retelling of the original game, with its own brand new quirks and themes. Unlike certain other versions of the franchise that shall not be named but involve random truckers, this Silent Hill game seems to know what it’s doing and where it wants to go. Oh, did I mention it’s for Nintendo’s Wii?

Since the game …

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Forrest J. Ackerman is Dead

Posted by Nelson Williams | December 6, 2008

If you’re under a certain age, oh, say perhaps 25, maybe 30, you might not know the name up there in the title. You might not care that he has died, or understand why I’m writing this post. That’s fine. None of us knows the names of all those who have touched our lives, and fewer still know how our lives have been touched.

I know this name.

Forrest J. Ackerman was a fan of horror and sci-fi the way NASA is a fan of things that fly and the Pentagon is a fan of things that explode. Not only did he promote the early and struggling genre of bizarre fantasy in film, he also defined it with his magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland. His personal collection of sci-fi, horror, and plain weird genre memorabilia is perhaps the largest in the world.

It was …

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Micro-Review: F.E.A.R.

Posted by Helvetica | May 26, 2007

fear_pc_front.gifF.E.A.R. This game fell down mostly on story. While the creepy little girl effect really got us, and we loved having bullet-time to take out our enemies in this FPS shooter it really wasn’t doing such a good job of keeping our attention. What drove us forward wasn’t the interesting new foes, but the next time we met Mr. I-Eat-Dead-Bodies or the scary little girl who lit fires and threw stuff at us.

Otherwise it was a generic FPS with horror elements. Things that we did like involved how the bad guys would jump for cover, or leap over objects to get at us. They’d throw grenades when we were hiding and scream in horror when we revealed ourselves. We’re told by everyone that they’re telepathically controlled clones, but they seemed pretty well socialized for clones.

There isn’t much in the way …

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