Spooky Week

Resident Evil is the zombie horror game, but its shambling corpses are slow and easy to avoid. To reinvigorate the…

There’s a simple explanation for how the Ouija board works: it’s not ghosts, but how you feel about them.

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…

Is there anything scarier than a door in a horror game? I submit that there is not.

Out twenty five years ago next month, the second entry in the handheld Mario spin-off series was significant for a…

This story didn’t happen to me. Not really. But some nights, it felt like it could have.

The overlap of horror movie lovers and video game lovers is undoubtedly substantial, so it’s no surprise that…

The back page of Alex Hall’s economics textbook was filled with scribbles. Diagrams, notes, story beats, a web that…

Some horror games are best played alone at midnight. Other ones are meant to be played in a room full of friends…

It’s Spooky Week here at Kotaku, and what better time to look back at Parasect, one of the most unsettling Pocket…

The Golden Age of survival horror games began in the mid-90s and ran for about a decade. Despite their often…

I hated math as a child, so my parents bought me a computer game to help me enjoy math. It was called Super Solvers:…

Horror games strike a balance between player control and dread. Getting chased by a murderer with giant scissors or…

Haunted houses are passe. It’s 2017. We have haunted video games now.