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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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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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Fatal Frame 4: the most Asian horror installment yet

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Daniel

For reasons no one knows (that could only be idiotic reasons), Nintendo refused to release Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse in the U.S. So in order to play it, I had to import the game from Japan … 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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My kind of video game: zombies, cheerleaders, headless hunks, and 80s love

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Daniel

Forget the story, suspense, or scares of survival horror. Lollipop Chainsaw is a straight up hack n’ slash arcade style video game that is loads of zombie slaughtering fun. It’s just you, a chainsaw, a hot dumb cheerleader sucking on … Continue reading →

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Cursed Mountain: Emphasis on the Curse…LOTS of them

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Daniel

Cursed Mountain on the Wii had the potential to be the best survival horror game of this generation to capture the feel of the classics from a decade ago. Only one thing held it back. It’s on the Wii. With … Continue reading →

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Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City: this zip code will never be the same…

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Daniel

Let’s face it. The Survival Horror genre hasn’t, well, survived the horror of game companies obsessed with satisfying action fans. Recent outings of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Alone in the Dark have mostly disappointed long time fans of these … Continue reading →

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