Resonance: Sinister Shadows

The music for Kingdom Hearts covers a wide spectrum of emotion and tone. It’s whimsical, charming, exuberant, forlorn, sinister, and just about everything else in between. The common factor to all of it however, is that it’s always dramatic. In each case it has a sense of grandeur and wonder that few, if any, other games…

News Byte: Ubisoft Drops Online Passes

In response to consumer feedback, Ubisoft has decided to drop the online pass program from all of its future games, and is giving out free passes to those that want them for Assassin’s Creed IV:Black Flag. This is a surprising, albeit understandable, turn of events considering ACIV’s recent release and all the fan and press blow-back…

News Byte: New Slender Game On Steam

The tale of Slenderman continues in Slender: The Arrival, which was recently released on Steam and is being sold at a 20% discount until Monday, November 4th). As the Slender Man has become internet folklore at this point, having a chance to explore the legend further is indeed a tempting proposition.

Community Recap: 10/28 – 11/1

Another year, another fantastic week of Halloween scares, chills, thrills, and discussions. Halloween may be over, but that’s no reason to cease all the spooky fun before the weekend is out! Our associates at Simpleek, Plus 10 Damage, Games I Made My Girlfriend Play, and Cheese Toastie and Video Games all have excellent offerings for…

News Byte: Eidos Montreal Cancels New Game

According  to some of Kotaku’s sources, Eidos Montreal (the studio behind notable games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution), has just cancelled a new game. It was likely that it was an entirely new game, though not necessarily a new IP, as it didn’t have anything to do with the Deus Ex or Thief franchises. Unfortunately there…

Psychological Horror – How To Really Get Under Your Skin

Hey all, Halloween is already upon us (did the month go fast or what?) which means it’s time to wrap up our weeks long look at horror games and what makes them tick. This week we have another excellent post from Sam Leung and I have to say that it looks like they saved the…

Resonance: Light and Darkness

In many ways The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was exactly the game many of us fans had asked for after the bright and cartoony entry in the series that was The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker. It had more realistic graphics, the dual-world mechanic from A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time,…

Monsters Are Better Left to the Imagination

  Monsters are a classic horror staple, both onscreen and off. They’re everything horrible that one can imagine, a dark and twisted force of nature, bent on nothing less than the grisly murder humankind, of the innocent and of guilty. Monsters are the embodiment of fear itself, absolutely terrifying yet indescribable.

Should You Get: LIMBO

We have a new contributor here at UWG! Everyone please give a warm and enthusiastic welcome to Shotgun Butterfly! Shotgun Butterfly maintains a great youtube channel, and we has chosen to share their latest video with you here at United We Game! It’s even fits into our Halloween theme this week! How about that, eh?…

Wolf Among Us Coming to PS Vita

The Wolf Among Us, TellTale Games’s already acclaimed episodic games based on the Fables comic series. Is due to release on PS Vita and iOS this fall. The game follows “Bigby Wolf”, also known as the Big Bad Wolf as he struggles to keep the residents of Fabletown living in peace with one another and…