Comic Con 2008: International Independent Film Festival winners
During Comic Con 2008, many games and comics were featured. And who wouldn’t want to attend a special preview of today’s most talented directors and animators create independent film masterpieces. The Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival consisted of movies that fell into seven categories: action/adventure, animation, comics-oriented, documentary, humor/parody, horror… Continue Reading »
A first-person travelogue of horror
Condemned 2 hits store shelves this week smashing together two for no-brainers gamers: frights and first-person combat. It’s a formula that’s looked tempting on paper for a number of developers over the years, and, from time to time, has led to some top-notch experiences. Here’s a short run down of… Continue Reading »
Dead Space to launch in time for Halloween
EA has announced that its creepy survival horror game Dead Space will release on October 28, 2008 - just in time for Halloween. GameLife reports that the game is set in space, on a ship in which all the space miners have been eaten/destroyed by some horrific evil they’ve dug… Continue Reading »
Opinion: Horror ain’t so scary without the sound
Clive Thompson had an excellent editorial yesterday on the Wired blog about horror videogames delivering better thrills than recent horror films. His argument touched on the fact that games are inherently subjective (ie. you are the one in danger, as opposed to vicariously watching a character on a screen be… Continue Reading »
Alone in the Dark 2 movie cast announced
The cast list has been announced for Uwe Boll’s latest game-based movie masterpiece, including the talents of Rick Yune (Fast and the Furious, Die Another Day), Lance Hendriksen (Pumpkinhead, Aliens) and Ralf Moeller (Far Cry, Postal, Seed). The storyline will involve a band of witch hunters and their prey. The… Continue Reading »
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