No, I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway. Or the rest of this month, for that matter. » 7/21/14 7:40am Monday 7:40am

The world's tallest water slide is located at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, and also in my nightmares. It's called Verrückt—which means "insane" in German—with good reason: At 168 feet and 7 inches, it's taller than the Statue of Liberty, Niagara Falls, and 23 Shaquille O'Neals stacked on top of each… » 7/08/14 11:52am 7/08/14 11:52am

Redditor Mune15 ran into this delightful little cherub while playing the latest downloadable content for BioShock Infinite. » 3/26/14 1:00pm 3/26/14 1:00pm

You've seen Felix Baumgartner's harrowing jump from 128,1000 feet above Earth's surface, but you haven't seen it like this. This new exhilarating video shows you what it was like from Felix's point of view with perfect clarity. » 1/31/14 5:50pm 1/31/14 5:50pm

Come wander the dark, flickering hallways of Upsilon, the first environment video from Soma, the sci-fi horror game from the makers of Amnesia. » 12/12/13 11:40am 12/12/13 11:40am

Just in case Gone Home wasn't scary enough already: check out this disturbing rendition of the game's audiologs by Orthogonalus. Jeeze, I dunno that I could handle a whole game like this! » 8/22/13 10:30pm 8/22/13 10:30pm

Thinking about bungee jumping into an open air pit cave-like the Cave of Swallows—is already horrific. But this really well-made slow-motion Minecraft animation, recently shared on Animationcraft's YouTube channel, makes the idea a lot scarier. » 3/14/13 9:20am 3/14/13 9:20am

One of the most villainous ways to raise the fear level in a game is to throw in a psycho clown. That clown is hides behind his stupid fake smile, searching for a way to earn your trust. » 3/01/13 7:30pm 3/01/13 7:30pm

So, I've made no secret of the fact that I'm a bit of an Animal Crossing addict » 12/06/12 6:00am 12/06/12 6:00am

YouTube entertainer PewDiePie likes to record himself doing scary things, like playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent » 2/27/12 12:20pm 2/27/12 12:20pm

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? » 10/28/11 6:40pm 10/28/11 6:40pm

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. » 4/14/11 7:30pm 4/14/11 7:30pm

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. » 4/20/10 5:20pm 4/20/10 5:20pm

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. » 12/29/09 3:20pm 12/29/09 3:20pm

New screens from Hudson's Wii horror game Calling show us what happens when AT&T launches the inevitable Dead Friends and Family plan. » 12/17/09 11:40am 12/17/09 11:40am

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." » 10/30/09 7:00am 10/30/09 7:00am

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.

On the one hand, she really is doing amazing things to… » 5/30/08 1:40pm 5/30/08 1:40pm

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. » 5/30/08 11:20am 5/30/08 11:20am