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Take This Lollipop… If You Dare

Kirk Hamilton — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:40:00 EDT

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Are you ready for Halloween? Have you gotten scared by anything recently? Perhaps a little creeped out that somewhere in the dark corners of your neighborhood, there sits a silent stalker in a white, blank mask, waiting… waiting… waiting for you to be alone? More »

A Compendium of Freaked-Out Reactions to Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Owen Good — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:30:00 EDT

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Ordinarily, you toss a video like this on YouTube, and every comment shouts it down as fake. But anyone who's played indie horror hit Amnesia: The Dark Descent knows this guy's skin-crawling, pupil-dilating, sphincter-clenching, headphone-grabbing reactions are on the level. More »

The Haunting Of A Majora's Mask Cartridge

Owen Good — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EDT

So there was this guy, and he bought a Majora's Mask cartridge from a creepy old guy, and it had wicked scary glitches in it, like Link would burst into flame while the Song of Healing played backward, and ... More »

Is This Prince Of Persia Actress Sexy Enough For Her Role?

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:20:00 EDT

She's played a Bond girl and a nymph who beguiled the gods, but someone out there thinks British actress Gemma Arterton might not be sexy enough for her role as the renamed Farah in next month's Prince of Persia movie. More »

A Real Mario Is A Terrifying Mario

Mike Fahey — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:20:00 EST

A man calls the plumbing company to complain about the two plumbers sent to fix his pipes, who instead go on a relatively subdued drug-fueled rampage in this College Humor video. More »

Reach Out And Touch Someone Dead

Mike Fahey — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:40:00 EST

New screens from Hudson's Wii horror game Calling show us what happens when AT&T launches the inevitable Dead Friends and Family plan. More »

Record Sales For Scary Games, Reuters Dates Dead Space 2

AJ Glasser — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EDT

News source Reuters says scary video games are having "a record year as zombies, monsters, demons, and chain-sawing wielding psychos fight against the consoles, making video games the new home of horror for some." More »

Red Alert 3 Features Woman Who Could Easily Kill You

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:40:00 EDT

Help me please. I am not sure if I am supposed to be excited by EliteXC fighter and American Gladiator Gina Carano, dressed up to portray deadly Soviet commando Natasha (because they only have one girl's name in the Soviet Union) in Command & Conquer Red Alert 3. More »

Not So Alone In The Dark Anymore

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:20:00 EDT

It's nice to see some more of the characters that are appearing in Atari's relaunch of Alone In The Dark. Up until now I swear that every bit of media I've seen was either showcasing the physics or just showing me scary things shrouded in darkness. Now it looks and feels a bit more like an adventure game to me. More »

Real Creepy Mario Now Talking Real Creepy

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:00:35 EDT

Thought it couldn't get creepier than the real life Mario? Oh man, yes it can, yes it can. The freakazoid now moves and, worse yet, talks. The animation was created by Deviant artist Portrix by using "Crazy Talk 5 Pro" to honor the originally, nightmare-inducing Mario. Link below is scary.
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Still Life With Project Origin Abomination

Mike Fahey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:40:00 EDT

The abomination from Monolith's upcoming Project Origin doesn't look half as terrifying standing in freeze-frame as it does in motion, but it's still a pretty damn scary looking creation. Still not sure if I could handle playing the game without peeing myself in fright, but the folks from the Project Origin Community site may have come up with a solution.

Mike Fahey of Kotaku explains that "for some reason the little bastard (Abomination) scares the living piss out of me." We will be sending Mike some adult diapers so he can have a urine free couch and play the game too.

I was hoping for a semi-attractive nurse with a catheter, but I suppose we take what we can wee in. More »

Scary Fetish Birdo Makes Me Cry

fdemarco — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:20:00 EST

Wow. You know, living in San Francisco for eleven years and attending numerous Gay Pride celebrations and the Folsom Street Fair, I thought I had seen everything. But after seeing this photo which was fished from the muck of 4chan by the lovely tentacled beasts at Ectoplasmosis, I realize I was wrong. Poor Birdo, it's not enough that he/she is sexually confused and had to go through a very public sex change, but now she has been rubber fetishised. For once I am left completely and utterly without words to describe my feelings. Twenty bucks says that's no lady which in this case would be oddly appropriate. More »

Dead Space Looks Deadly, Spacey

Mike Fahey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:20:17 EST

I have high hopes for EA's Dead Space, because space-based horror films rock. I don't know what happened to Luke as a child that he didn't like Event Horizon, but it was an excellent example of how outer space and horror can be brilliantly mixed. Look at the Alien series. Look at...um. Hellraiser: Bloodline? Jason X? Leprechaun IV - Leprechaun In Space? There was this really great episode of Doctor Who from the first season of the new series where the Doctor faces Satan in outer space. That was pretty good. *drums fingers on the table, thinking* Okay, so making good space horror is hard, but EA seems to be off to a good start. As long as they can keep the music in check and highlight the silence and isolated feeling of being stranded in space, they could very well pull an Event Horizon out of their airlock. If not, then "As Shakespeare said, shit happens. " More »

Dead Space Trailer

fdemarco — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:00:00 EDT

Move over Alien, there's a new scary... alien in space. GameTrailers managed to nab a world exclusive trailer for EA's upcoming space horror game, Dead Space. I'm a big fan of the survival horror genre but usually my tastes tend towards the Silent Hill, Resident Evil end of things. I have yet, to my memory (which is admittedly poor) played a horror game in outer space much less zero gravity, so I'll be anxious to check this out when it hits next year. Definitely one for lights out... More »

Boll Movie Being Made Into Videogame

Mike Fahey — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:20:18 EDT

It really was only a matter of time. Beloved *chokes* video game filmmaker Uwe Boll finished filming his Vietnam war movie 'Tunnel Rats' earlier this year, and now he is financing a game based off of the film. Developed by German developer Replay Studios, Tunnel Rats will be a dark and gritty take on the war FPS, sharing the film's focus on the overall senselessness and madness of war rather than the heroism and bravery most games in the genre tend to highlight. The film's stars Michael "Eddie and the Cruisers" Pare, Nate Parker, Brandon Fobbs and Erik Eidem have all signed on to provide their likenesses for the game, which would be amazingly exciting if I knew who any of them were other than Eddie there. More »

Survival Horror Works On DS

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:00:04 EDT

For some reason, the DS has been pigeonholed as "bad for horror games." That's a bit short-sighted! Developer Renegade Kid's upcoming Dementium: The Ward is a straight up scare title in which players wonder around a creepy hospital. Says Renegade Kid's Jools Watsham: More »

Chinese Gov't Cracks Down On Game Peripheral Seller

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:40 EDT

"I'm staying in Beijing , if I'm also staying in our Shenzhen office , I should also had been abducted, and then all of us should had been KILLED quietly then they can take all our fortune away freely without anyone else dare to SUE them!" More »

Ashcraft At Monster Hunter Rally

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:00:12 EDT

Some holiday. It's late Thursday morning, between 10am and noon, I forget. With the country shut done for the Golden Week holidays, families board trains, load up cars and head to the seashore, the mountains or the Monster Hunter Festa. Trying to find the damn thing, walking through an underground shopping area out by Osaka Castle. I pass more and more people with PSPs, so I know: I'm close. More »

Fallout 3 Forums Are Live, Insane

Mike Fahey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:20:35 EDT

Bethesda threw wide the doors of the Fallout 3 forums last night, and already they are filling up with the usual elements that make forums great. It's like a giant drain was opened, sending the fans that have been hovering above the site in wait spiraling down into the dark underbelly that is community commentary. More »

Clips: Sexy Beach 3 Gameplay

fdemarco — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:00:05 EST

Dead or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball has nothing on this game... More »

Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: Kickman

fdemarco — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:00:24 EST

Midway's Kickman is an odd one in the video game world as it was one of the first arcade games to feature Pac-man as a guest star outside of an actual Pac Man related game. More »

Horror Games for Halloween

kotaku.com — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:40:36 EDT

This October, I hope I will spend the vast majority of my days sitting in a rapidly expanding pool of hysterically evacuated urine. And I need your help to do it. More »

Forgive Us, For We Have Sinned

egauger — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:40:04 EDT

Destructoid's readers (and contributors) are a tawdry, villainous bunch. As are scoundrels over at The Age blogs, where Destructoid got the idea for compiling a list of gaming sins in the first place. More »

KUDOS: the Poor, Desperate Man's Sims 2

egauger — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:20:45 EDT

We got a tip from some joker calling himself Skylab about this here indie game, KUDOS, which touts itself as a "turn-based life simulator". More »

Pokemon Touring the Nation

Brian Crecente — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:00:14 EDT

Pokemon is touring the nation, color me scared. I'm not sure where all they will be going, but I know that on May 5 the furry little rodents will be landing in Denver. More »