If you saw The Game Awards, then you known Call of Duty and Dead Space veterans are creating The Callisto Protocol, a new survival horror game coming in 2022. Striking Distance Studios has quickly built a team of 150 developers in San Ramon, California, to create a science fiction game in the survival horror genre. […]
At one point during Issac Clark’s adventure on the USG Ishimura, a giant tentacle grabs him. As the player, you launch a desperate assault at the appendage as it slowly drags you down the hallway. It’s a tense segment, especially when you consider that Dead Space is a game from 2008. “One of the things […]
Elisabeth Moss gets the gaslighting treatment in Universal’s reinvention of The Invisible Man. A traumatized woman escapes her abusive relationship, only to find she is being stalked by an unseen entity in The Invisible Man, (very) loosely based on the H.G. Wells science fiction novel. It’s less a direct adaptation than a reinvention, written and […]
The best horror games all have something in common: the ability to deliver a feeling of unease that someone or something is going to deliver you to your untimely end. Games have only become more frightening as technology has evolved and with Halloween looming, it’s time to put a spotlight on the scariest games we’ve […]
Enlarge / Megan Fox starred in the 2009 film Jennifer’s Body. It underperformed at the box office, but has since become a horror cult classic. 20th Century Fox Typically, when we think of cult classic films and TV series that get a second lease on life via VHS, DVD, or streaming, we think of a […]
Swamp Thing teaser trailer. DC Universe has dropped the first teaser for its forthcoming TV adaption of Swamp Thing, and tonally it feels more like a horror film than your standard comic superhero fare. And that makes sense, given that one of the executive producers is Aquaman director James Wan, who brought us The Conjuring and […]
Video shot and edited by Justin Wolfson. Click here for transcript. 2010 video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an obvious candidate for our eventual “best games of the ’10s” list, owing to its revolutionary take on interactive horror. The indie game ushered in a new era of horror gaming, thanks in part to its […]
Enlarge / Visitors to a haunted house in Vejle, Denmark, respond differently to being confronted by "scare actors" depending on whether they are "adrenaline junkies" or "white-knucklers." Andrés Baldursson, Baldursson Photography It’s no secret that many of us here at Ars are genuine fans of horror. As a child, I would compulsively devour horror short stories […]
Enlarge FFG Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. It’s early during my first play as Calvin Wright, a tormented guardian willing to sacrifice body and soul for the residents of Arkham. Sitting in hushed silence, I hide on a bridge wedged between […]
Earlier this week on his livestream talk show, God of War and Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe received a phone call from Cory Barlog, the director and writer for the most recent God of War game that released this year on PlayStation 4. During the chat [warning: language is extremely NSFW –Ed.], they discussed the series, God of […]
[embedded content] A bit like spicy food, the effectiveness of horror titles varies from person to person. What makes me break out in a sweat may not be enough to elevate your heart rate. Fortunately (or, if you’re of a nervous disposition, perhaps, unfortunately,) the good folks at game developer Red Meat Games have come up […]