Image by Flickr user: Christopher Schnese It would be an understatement to say that video games have changed in the 42 years since Pong! first began making the medium popular. Indeed, since then games have progressed from moving lines and dots to full 3-dimensional worlds built to feel alive. Along with the visuals, the objectives…
Category: Simul-tober
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…
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.
Guest Post: Zombies are Not Scary
Originally posted on CheeeseToastieandVideoGames:
This week I bring to you the second guest post of the month, again on the topic of horror. The blogger I’m featuring this week is the always entertaining and insightful Duck of gaming blog The Duck of Indeed and one of the admins of United We Game. Remember to check…
Simul-tober: The Sounds of Silence
The horror continues as we are now in week two of Simul-tober! Be sure to check out the other posts at Cheese Toastie and Video Games and Games I Made My Girlfriend Play. And now the this week’s entry courtesy of Chip from GIMMGP: In the past, I have talked about the power that music can…
Guest Post: More than the Setting
Check out our own Simul-tober post on A Life With Cyn!
The Inspiration of Fear
Happy belated first post of Simul-tober everyone! Apologies for the delay but not everything is avoidable unfortunately 🙂 ! We’d like to extend our thanks to Cynenway of A Life With Cyn, (an excellent blog that deals all kinds of little slices of life, games included!) for being the first to trade posts with us…
It’s Simul-tober!
Happy middle-of-October everyone! In order to get into the Halloween spirit UWG is partnering up with some of our fellow bloggers and delving into the dark hallways and foreboding spaces of horror games! We’ll each be hosting guest posts from our counterparts so be sure to check out their site’s too if you want to…
VIRTUAL BASTION 