Category Archives: What I’m Doing With My Joystick

The never-ending feeling of DOOM

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Daniel

Doom is one of those video game franchises that always seemed more action than horror to me, plus it was a first person shooter, which I suck at, so I never checked it out the first time around. But when … Continue reading →

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Alan Wake – the horror of playing a bestselling author

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Daniel

It’s shocking to me that Alan Wake isn’t considered one of the scariest survival horror games of all time. It is so easily comparable to Silent Hill and is fricking terrifying! It’s also a visually beautiful game. And the attention … Continue reading →

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When dinos rocked survival horror…then went painfully extinct

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Daniel

In the 90s, the Resident Evil video game franchise was hot. And so was the Jurassic Park movie series. So Capcom did something brilliant; they replaced the zombies with dinosaurs and made Dino Crisis! DINO CRISIS The original Dino Crisis … Continue reading →

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Zombie horses and mutant sea monsters!

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Daniel

It’s amazing how many zombie video games there are. Even when video game companies want to cash in by just tossing zombies into popular series that have nothing to do with horror, I totally get sucked in. That’s why I … Continue reading →

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Mindless zombie shooting video game set in the Yakuza universe

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Daniel

I know absolutely nothing about the Yakuza video game franchise, but once they put zombies in the mix, I was so there. Hell, I didn’t even care about the storyline while playing Yakuza: Dead Souls. And you really don’t have … Continue reading →

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The high point in the Alone in the Dark video game series

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Daniel

So this is how it goes. Infogrames created a groundbreaking 3D survival horror game in 1992, about a couple of people stuck in a mansion full of monsters. While Infogrames went on to create 2 sequels that made the game … Continue reading →

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If David Boreanaz was a hunky video game character…

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Daniel

Instead of the vampire, he’d be the vampire slayer in this game! Countdown Vampires came out for the original Playstation during the major popularity of the true Resident Evil survival horror days. So reviewers at the time logically called it … Continue reading →

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Saw and Saw II: the torture porn of survival horror video games

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Daniel

I’ve always been a fan of a good spanking, but I must be more hardcore than I realized to take the punishment the Saw video games administer. Why would I have expected anything less from games based on a movie … Continue reading →

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A Silent Hill movie you watch just to say “That’s from the video games!”

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Daniel

While the original Silent Hill movie crammed together the premises of the 1st and 2nd video games, Silent Hill Revelation is predominantly based on the Silent Hill 3 video game. It does an awesome job of bringing the protagonist Heather … Continue reading →

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Resident Evil Six or Resident Evil Sux?

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Daniel

So we all know that beginning with Resident Evil 4, Capcom gave up on the classic survival horror genre and turned it into an action series to gain not a BIGGER audience, but a DIFFERENT audience. And they succeeded. No … Continue reading →

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