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The Horror that Surrounds: The Dead City Lives

Post-apocalyptic visions are a dime a dozen in games these days. Players regularly travel through forgotten, decrepit scenes that live on in the wake of some terrible disaster. That could be a war, a pandemic, a case of technology gone berserk, or something else entirely. The point is that these spaces are shrouded by more…

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The Horror That Surrounds: The Eye of the Universe

When I decided to write about Outer Wilds, it was hard to narrow down the exact location I wanted to cover.  Let’s see, we’ve got a planet being torn apart from the inside by a black hole, an ocean planet covered in tornadoes, and a bizarre place where the fabric of space itself doesn’t work…

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The Horror That Surrounds: All Bets are of in the Bottom of the Well

Well, we’re just about at the end of another Spooktober season, and once again it went all too quickly, don’t you think? I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I rather enjoyed this year’s festivities! So much so that I found myself thinking back a few years to our Zeldaween event and just how…

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The Horror that Surrounds: Why Does the Glowing Sea Glow?

I feel like the answer to that question is “you know even if you don’t know.” Given what we know about nuclear weaponry, I’ll refrain from being too cheeky about the vast, devastated, irradiated landscape known as “The Glowing Sea” in Fallout 4. Its story hits close to our past, and, hopefully, does not portend…

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Latest Silent Hill 2 Patch Worsens Game-Breaking Bug on PS5

There’s very little to complain about when it comes to Bloober Team and Konami’s Silent Hill 2 remake. The atmosphere is just as creepy, disquieting and often uneasy as it was in the original. The haunted town’s famous fog still creates a solid sense of claustrophobia and the changes actually make sense for the most…

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The Horror That Surrounds: Mouldwood Depths

I’ve heard it said, “I’m not afraid of the darkness, I’m just afraid of what’s in it”.  This statement rings true 99% of the time.  Darkness typically hides all sorts of sneaky things that like to slither and skitter about unseen.  But the darkness itself…it can’t actually hurt you, right?  Right?  Well, in Ori and…

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It’s Better Not to Linger in The Nether

As Spooktober marches on and the horror continues to surround, I find my thoughts turning to Minecraft. For the most part, it’s a pretty chill and lighthearted game. You just mine your stuff and build up whatever projects you can dream up. Sure, the nights are dangerous and the caves can be spooky, but otherwise…

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The Horror that Surrounds: Into the Dark of The Depths

Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivator to, well…stand still. Very, very still. That’s the first thing I did upon entering The Depths in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As Link, I just stood there, surveying the empty sea of seemingly nothing that lay beyond the lit circle of “safety” where…

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