The past week in games has been all about strong, imposing men getting in touch with their softer side and nurturing their young – well, and cardboard boxes. Both Kiryu Kazuma in Yakuza 6 and Kratos in God of War may not quite be...

Strabreeze have released a new trailer for their upcoming co-op shooter based on hugely-popular zombie franchise The Walking Dead. The trailer introduces us to one of the game's protagonists, Maya.In the excellent two-minute spot Maya, a yo...

Resident Evil 7 has been welcomed to the family...the family of games that have sold more than five million copies! Capcom's 2017 reformed take on Resident Evil isn't ready to die yet. Capcom announced the new sales milestone alon...

I had the chance recently to sit down and play an early preview build of Lust for Darkness on PC from developer Movie Games, which oddly enough, was also the final Steam Greenlight game. Successfully Kickstarted last year, the game is set t...

If you're an owner of Microsoft's new machine and have been dying to try Resident Evil 7 in upscaled 4K, then this patch is for you. Released just a few hours ago, Xbox One X gamers can now experience last year's survival horror romp in sli...

Survival-horror sequel State of Decay 2 is getting a Collector's Edition, complete with everything you need to delve into the spirit of the zombie-smashing sequel... Erm, except the game itself.The State of Decay 2 Collector's Edition comes...

It was announced yesterday by Nintendo and Swedish outfit Tarsier Studio's that Little Nightmares, the highly-acclaimed, twisted horror title, is headed Switch-ward.The puzzle-adventure launched last Spring to a great reception, being prais...

Operation: Chimera, the first season in Year Three of Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Siege is now live, meaning a selection of your favourite counter-terrorist operators can now go zombie-killing in limited-time event, Outbreak.Outbreak is a three-...

Outlast saw a semi-surprise release earlier today on Nintendo Switch. While we knew ports of the first-person horror titles were in production, it wasn't clear when exactly they'd arrive. Today's the day for the first game, it turns out -- ...

There is something uniquely terrible about disgusting food. The taste never seems to go away, no matter how much you wash your mouth out, and your body behaves, at least for a moment, as if it's been poisoned. Anyone who's accidentally take...

Do not adjust your night-vision goggles. That header image is, in fact, a shot from the latest DLC for squad-based shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. You would be forgiven for thinking a Levi-clad demi-woman with branches for arms mig...

Responding to a fan on twitter, developers of open-world survival title DayZ have announced that the game will finally be arriving on Xbox One this year, as part of the console's Game Preview range of work-in-progress titles.DayZ has been i...

The storm outside used to haunt you obsessively. Harsh winds clash into the shuddering walls of the Baker residence. You hear an erratic moan from upstairs. Or was that the wind? You don’t know. You’ll never know. It may have be...

Rising Star Games have announced that the deluxe edition board game of the notorious 2010 release, Deadly Premonition, is available to pre-order on Amazon, ahead of its January 31 release.In the board game, players walk the mean streets of ...

Awesome Games Done Quick had a phenomenal lineup of horror speedruns last night. I was fortunate enough to catch the majority of Carcinogen's Resident Evil 7 run live, and while I don't keep up with the speedrunning scene as much as I used ...

Outlast studio Red Barrels made a few announcements about its horror series today and there's a little something for everyone. First off, "the Outlast franchise" is coming to Nintendo Switch in Q1 2018. It's unclear how much the two games w...

Right – let me start this article by exposing my biases. Namely, one of the first games I played to the point of obsession was The Sims, and as everyone knows, The Sims is a highly modular game. Since the very beginning, the Sims seri...

Prototype Mansion presents itself as a bargain-bin disc. Its box art isn't art at all, really, it's just more a callback to the kinds of games you'd find at a thrift store or yard sale; a plain plastic CD case, conspicuously missing any fro...

There are some seriously weird games out there – this is what you quickly learn when you start collecting them, even with a focus on specific consoles. There's always at least one or two developers, big or small, that like to take ser...

When Paranormal Activity became an international blockbuster it ushered in a highly profitable era of B horror films. Since then cineplexes have been inundated with cheaply produced, easily marketable and quickly forgotten horror films. Blu...

Sony released a teaser trailer announcing that PlayStation VR will be a getting an "experience" soon based upon everyone's favourite "Have you watched it yet?" Netflix show, Stranger Things.The teaser, frankly, is little more than an animat...

Halloween has come and gone, but it lives on in our hearts, and 2005's first-person horror adventure Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth can offer some respite from creeping holiday cheer. The game is now available through GOG.com fo...

Just in time for Halloween, PlayStation VR is getting a creepy horror title, one that uses audio made by the player to both find reveal the path and lure the enemy.Stifled will have the player navigating a entirely pitch black world. Making...

The last we saw of Resident Evil 7's free DLC Not a Hero, I couldn't say it was getting me all pumped up. I'm mostly baffled that Capcom and now Sony are so willing to spoil a possible twist for a game that isn't even a year old. Let's just...

In a Dead Space developer diary, executive producer Glen Schofield used a good example to illustrate how audio is integral to fear: "We've turned off a scary movie -- the picture -- and just run the audio and it's very scary, but if yo...