To get in the spirit of Halloween, Conan O'Brien checks out some scary PC games in the dark. » 10/25/13 6:30am 10/25/13 6:30am

Yeah, yeah, the whole Harlem Shake thing is out of hand. And this video is kind of one meme colliding with another meme, to create a memesplosion. Still, I got a chuckle out of ol' Slendy's take things. » 2/13/13 10:30pm 2/13/13 10:30pm

Slender: The Eight Pages was one of the more beguiling successes of last year—a weird, super low-rent thriller that combined the popular Slenderman mythos with simple jump-scare design. Its stripped-down look and basic design were part of the appeal. » 2/11/13 7:00pm 2/11/13 7:00pm

Slender: The Eight Pages was one of the true surprises of 2012—a crude, free PC game that also happened to be one of the scariest games of the year. » 12/23/12 4:30pm 12/23/12 4:30pm

Not with a gun to my head would I watch Marble Hornets. How much of a cowering, frightened ninny am I? I won't even google it to get an abstract of what the YouTube series is about to cite in this lead paragraph. It is, on Kirk Hamilton's recommendation to me, the most fucked-up frightening entry in the Slenderman… » 12/02/12 3:00pm 12/02/12 3:00pm

See here, the official teaser for Faceless, a game previously known as Slender: Source. It's got a complicated lineage: inspired by another game which was in turn inspired by an internet meme. » 11/14/12 7:00pm 11/14/12 7:00pm

I know, you're likely sick of Minecraft by now, and probably of Slender as well, but this combination of the two might light a fire under you. » 10/18/12 2:00am 10/18/12 2:00am

Ever since the breakout success of the stripped-down horror game Slender: The Eight Pages, we've been seeing Slenderman-related stuff cropping up in every corner of the internet. So I wasn't that surprised to fire up the app store today only to see a game called "Slenderman" in the #2 spot of the top 10 paid apps. » 10/01/12 9:00pm 10/01/12 9:00pm

I know, I know. You're all tired of the Slender videos. "It's not even scary!" many of you have said in the past. » 9/28/12 1:15pm 9/28/12 1:15pm

By now, most folks know about Slender: The Eight Pages. The crude yet terrifying indie game has become something of an internet sensation over the last couple of months, scaring the pants off of countless thousands around the world. » 9/20/12 9:34pm 9/20/12 9:34pm

To spice things up, the Gamemakers in this version of The Hunger Games introduce the tall, creepy Slenderman to a fight for survival amongst young kids. » 9/14/12 12:30pm 9/14/12 12:30pm

It's been two months since the internet first laid eyes on Parsec Productions' splendidly scary free horror game Slender. In that time, we've seen all manner of Slender-related internet fallout. » 9/10/12 9:30pm 9/10/12 9:30pm

Ever since we learned that there's a multiplayer, source-engine take on the Slenderman game in the works, I've been hoping see more of the game in action. » 9/10/12 3:30pm 9/10/12 3:30pm

Slenderman, that terrifying faceless ghoul in a suit, has been around for a good long while before that stripped-down, scary video game » 8/09/12 8:30pm 8/09/12 8:30pm

Have you played Slender » 8/06/12 11:00am 8/06/12 11:00am

There's something special about watching someone else play a horror game. Particularly one you've already played. It's the mark of a truly scary game—once it catches on, there follows a growing number of videos of people playing, and being freaked out by, the game. It became popular with Amnesia: Dark Descent—I… » 7/23/12 2:00pm 7/23/12 2:00pm

Go ahead, see how much of this you can take. What's the matter? The clip is only 2:09 long. » 7/22/12 3:00pm 7/22/12 3:00pm

Let us never underestimate the internet's ability to come up with freaky crap. The vast reach of the web creates mysteries as often as it dispels them, and sometimes those mysteries are truly scary. » 7/05/12 2:00pm 7/05/12 2:00pm