News::Xbox One Price Cut, Sunset Overdrive, Horror Games - GameRevolution Radio 120

GR: Listen in as the GameRevolution crew discusses Microsoft's Xbox One price drop, why Sunset Overdrive is so awesome, and more!



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News::Fenix Rage Review | Entertainium

How much punishment can one reviewer take? Apparently a lot, as this Fenix Rage review can attest.



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News::Halo fan-made PC MMO, Project Contingency, receives large new update, new info revealed

One thing that many PC gamers will attest to is the severe lack of Halo in their gaming lives (provided they game exclusively on PC). With only the original Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequel, Halo 2, available for PC, and with the upcoming release of Xbox One-exclusive Halo: The Master Chief Collection, PC gamers are sure to feel the pain within the Master Chief-less void in their lives come November 11th. Fortunately, a team of Halo fans and indie game developers have been hard at work on a particularly interesting Halo project for PC called Project Contingency - a fan-made, free-to-play, massively multiplayer online Halo video game that runs on CryEngine 3.



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News::6 Greatest Horror Games of All Time

GR: In celebration of Halloween, we here at GameRevolution have compiled a wonderfully terrifying little list of some of the best horror experiences video games have to offer. From classic franchises like Resident Evil and Silent Hill to more recent ones like Dead Space, the genre has had served up some truly unforgettable experiences over the years, and we'd like to highlight a handful of the very best.



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Everything You Need to Know

Its another year, and that means another Call of Duty game is almost upon us. With just a few days to go before Call of Duty: Advanced Warfares release (some already have their mitts on it), PlayStation LifeStyle rounds up all the info you need in one convenient place with our Everything You Need to Know info dump.



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News::I Never Knew Metal Gear Solid Could Be So... Cute

Awwww, Solid Snake is so tiny. And so is Gray Fox. I sure hope nothing bad happens to either of them, ever.

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News::Games Asylum | Alien: Isolation review

GamesAsylum: "Auto-saving has made gaming considerably easier over the years. No longer do we have to remember to save progress every few minutes; if we die we simply go back to near where we left off, making the consequences of failure minimal at the most. Thats not the case in Alien: Isolation. This deep space survival horror uses save stations that in some instances at the start of the game, in particular can be far apart. This isnt down to lazy or bad design though. Its actually the opposite when the stakes are high youre more determined not to die, thus making the experience all the more tense. Our most chilling moment came when the Alien was stood right in front of a save station. With a good 15 to 20 minutes of play at stake we hid under a desk with baited breath and sweaty palms, hoping that it would give up trying to discover our location. It wasnt until it climbed back up into an air duct its usual lurking place that we breathed a deep sigh of relief, and...



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News::The Problems of Gaming with Friends

RoKtheReaper.com discusses the seldom discussed issues that can occur by becoming accustomed to gaming with friends.



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News::Uncanny Valley: Playing videogames can get you killed

Uncanny Valley , that promising survival horror game with the medical posters on the wall, has released a fun little Halloween video. There is a game within the game, an arcade cabinet called Anarchy Man, which you can totally play while you're playing the game.

Of course, this may not be the best idea in a horror game...

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News::The Story Behind One of The Spookiest Places In Fallout 3

News::Lords of the Fallen - PC Version Still Uncracked Thanks To New DRM Solution, Three Days And Counting

Well, time for some exciting news everyone. Lords of the Fallen was released three days ago and surprisingly enough, CI Games latest action RPG has not been cracked yet. Thats a real accomplishment, considering that most PC games are cracked just mere hours after their official release.



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News::MechWarrior Baby Will Destroy Your Home, Eat Your Candy

Boring baby costumes are a dime a dozen. Oh you're a bee? A dinosaur? Big whoop, kid. Try a MechWarrior costume on for size.

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News::Celebrate Halloween With a Spooky Dark Souls II Discount

Hardcore Gamer: The Bandai Namco storefront isnt the most well-known out there, but it has been a haven for solid savings before. Now, the company is celebrating Halloween with a 24 hour-long sale on the Dark Souls series.



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News::Dungeons, Giant Spiders and Baby Dragons In 30 Minutes of Dragon Age Inquisition Gameplay

Check out all new gameplay from Dragon Age: Inquisition, showing off the stormy coast, dungeon crawling, giant spiders, and seemingly innocent baby dragons.



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News::New Alone in the Dark gets first trailer day after pre-order details

Yesterday, Alone in the Dark: Illumination went up for pre-order on Steam. The "Eldritch Edition," as it were, with a mildly reduced price, exclusive weapon and character skins, blah blah blah.

Today, Atari is finally showing video of the game.

Sort of cocked up the order there, eh?

Also, you can't call a four player co-op game "Alone in the Dark." I mean, you can, but come the heck on. The creator of the original Alone in the Dark has a new game coming out that you can read about here in a bit. I say buy it instead.

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News::Review: Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut - Nlife

Nlife: "With its 2D visuals and seemingly flat environments, Lone Survivor might seem like a simplistic take on the horror genre. Ultimately however, it's under the limitations of this simplicity that the game really shines, leaving just enough to the imagination without seeming too bare. Through the blurred lens of it's admittedly tired pixelated graphics, environments drip with atmosphere, creatures shamble along menacingly, and the search for answers is always compelling. Though it takes some getting used to, partly due to a baffling map system, the psychological horror of Lone Survivor can extend far beyond the confines of the television screen."



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News::Ultra Street Fighter IV Wild Costumes Turn Ryu Into A Wolf And Make Cammy A Fox

While Ultra Street Fighter IV on disc contains a huge selection of costumes, Capcom is still making new outfits for characters. The Wild costumes are different from Blankas Hawaiian shirt since they transform characters like Ryu and Gen into fighters that look like they belong in Bloody Roar.



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News::Retro Game Crunch: SteamFirst Takes a Look

SteamFirst: The games in Retro Game Crunch were developed by Shaun Inman, Rusty Moyher and Matt Grimm. The game collection was released on Steam May 19th 2014 (Note: This review is quite long, Im going to cover seven games in a collection. If you dont find long reviews helpful or interesting then scroll down to the summarization of every single game and the collection)



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News::​Everything Wrong with The Evil Within in 12 Minutes

Many of the attempts at generating fright in The Evil Within just feel… clunky. Doubtful? Just watch a comprehensive breakdown of the survival horror game's missteps. Be careful not to step in any blood.

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News::Gawker Is Fun-Sized Candy Really More Fun?

News::Ranking The Psychopaths of Dead Rising 3

GeekParty's Blake Stein ranks the psychopaths of Dead Rising 3 from the relatively timid to totally twisted.



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News::Minute long trailer released for abstract action title Minutes

Red Phantom Games has released a new trailer for their upcoming PlayStation Vita abstract action title Minutes.



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News::Royal Quest Pumpkin Craze Event

Katauri Interactive and 1C Online Games bring Pumpkin Craze to Royal Quest. The event runs from now until November 6th and has some awesome prizes. While killing monsters in the game you have a random chance to spawn a Crazy Pumpkin. Upon killing the Pumpkin it will drop a variety of valuable rewards. Read more.



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News::Resident Evil Revelations 2 Preview - GameRevolution

GameRevolution: As a self-professed under-informed enthusiast of the Resident Evil franchise, I felt criminally unprepared for the hands-on opportunity I got with Resident Evil: Revelations 2 in a recent demo. With PlayStation 4 controller in-hand, I got to check out an early build of the game as it is currently in development with the Japanese market in the lead and a Western release following closely behind. Where the previous Revelations game landed on Nintendo 3DS, pushing an immersive experience in 3D, the game did well on console and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 platforms take the lead with Revelations 2.



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News::Tom Savini will bring the slasher genre to PC, PS4, Xbox One with Summer Camp

Warp Zoned writes: "Tom Savini, the wizard of gore responsible for Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th, has teamed up with Gun Media to create Summer Camp, a splatter-themed game for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Wes Keltner, the founder of Gun Media, is heading up the project and he has also recruited Harry Manfredini, creator of the Ch Ch, Ch, Chhh, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ahhh sound from Friday the 13th, to compose the soundtrack."



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News::John Carpenter's Halloween Theme, Played by GTA Car Horns

Some movie music will keep on giving you the chills, long after the credits rolling. The haunting piano riff from John Carpenter's classic horror movie Halloween makes it one of those tunes. But, when it's a bunch of video game car horns bleating it out? It's actually kind of funny.

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News::Summer Camp is a survival horror game where you can play as the killer

This teaser trailer for Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp isn't much to go off, but the concept -- a third-person survival game inspired by '80s slasher films -- is strong enough that I'm listening.

In this first game, you'll play as a teenage camp counselor alongside other players trying to survive until dawn (as if that means you're truly safe) -- or the killer. That could be good! Or not! I don't recall there being many attempts to recreate the movie genre in videogames.

Breach & Clear developer Gun Media is on point for Summer Camp but the studio is working with special effects legend Tom Savini and Friday the 13th composer Harry Manfredini. Can't say I have high expectations for the game, but we'll see. Hope it's decent.

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News::MXGP PS4 Gameplay - Italy Arco di Trento

VVV: "Milestone's MXGP: The Official Motocross recently got a makeover on PS4, featuring new tracks and enhanced visuals among a host of other improvements. We've been busy getting our muddy mits on it, putting it through its paces and checking out some of the new content. Our first gameplay takes you on a bumpy ride through the idyllic Italy - Arco di Trento circuit, one of four new tracks exclusive to the PS4 version that highlights some of the visual improvements - particularly with the lighting, which now gives the game a more realistic sheen thanks to the Yebis 2 engine also used in MotoGP '14.



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News::Gaming PC Review By JackFrags Gladiator Hailstorm

Gladiator Hailstorm Intel Gaming pc review by JackFrags. The Gladiator Hailstorm is considered a high spec gaming system. JackFrags show us a some gameplay of Tomb Raider, Battlefield 4 and Alien Isolation with Fraps enabled.



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News::Welcome to Mistland - The Pumpkin Queen

Julie Morley writes: "Julie Morley delves back into the world of Mobot Studios' Knite and the Ghost Lights, a stop motion adventure game that looks like it came from the mind of Tim Burton. This time around there's a distinct Halloween theme to things."



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News::Co-Op Horror Awaits in Contagion

Marcus Estrada writes: "Monochrome is a developer that I was familiar with long before Contagion came into being. Before the Kickstarter, Early Access, and launch, I had been playing their Half-Life 2 mod Zombie Panic! Source (itself an upgrade on the original Zombie Panic). This multiplayer game was tremendous fun and offered something that no other FPSes were offering at the time - letting players control the zombies. Its spiritual successor, Contagion, was hotly anticipated and led to a wonderfully successful crowdfunding campaign. How has the game turned out since launch?"



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News::Five Video Games Worth Buying During Steams Halloween Sale

Ray Porreca of Entertainment Buddha writes: "In celebration of All Hallows Eve, Steam launched their official Halloween sale yesterday, putting some of the video game worlds spookiest games on deep discount."



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News::A Sad Reminder About How Slow And Expensive The Internet Is In America

Internet speeds in America are pathetic, which you probably already knew if you...live in America. A new piece in The New York Times report makes that more clear.

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News::You Have Chosen…Poorly: A Ranking Of Alternate Horror Film Endings

Watching a movie is like playing roulette: we have no idea which ending we'll be seeing. Will it be the original, or another version inspired by a failed test screening, or "creative differences"? Sometimes the change is for the better; sometimes not. Here, we rank 13 alternate horror film endings from worst to best.

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News::The Swindle will hack your difference engine in 2015

Size Five Games, previously known as Zombie Cow Studios (the studio behind the twin-stick edutainment STD shooter Privates and point-and-click adventure titles such as Time Gentleman, Please!), has released the debut trailer for its upcoming stealth-action game The Swindle.

Described as a "Steampunk Cybercrime Caper," Size Five's Dan Marshall says he likes to think of The Swindle as "a stealth game for the rest of us." The developer elaborates by adding:

"I suck at stealth games, I have neither the patience nor the disposition to creep slowly behind someone hoping they don’t turn around on an AI's whim. The Swindle is my answer to that – it's in your interest to remain undetected as long as possible on a heist, but being discovered and setting all the alarm bells ringing feels more like an inevitability than a fail state. At that point, the game switches from being a sneaky-sneaky stealth game to an all-out-action race against the clock."

The gameplay hook centers around sneaking undetected into procedurally generated buildings, hacking their systems to drain them of funds and then making a daring escape with all the loot. Your ill-gotten gains can then be used to upgrade your character to take on even bigger and more dangerous jobs.

Marshall's experience with the genre squares fairly well with my own. While I don't dislike stealth-based games, it's encouraging to see the developer acknowledge that the genre isn't a good fit for everybody, and is actively working to strike a balance between stealth and action that will hopefully keep impatient people like me invested in their game.

The Swindle will be going into closed beta in a few months, so, if this is something you'd be interested in taking part in, you're invited to follow @danthat on Twitter for more details.

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