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From Pac-Man’s eternal pursuers all the way up to F.E.A.R.’s terrifying Alma Wade, games have always been full of…
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Is there anything scarier than a door in a horror game? I submit that there is not.
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Haunted houses are passe. It’s 2017. We have haunted video games now.