by Steve Watts, Oct 26, 2012 10:15am PDT
Halloween is just around the corner, and Indie Royale has launched yet another themed pack of cheap games around the spooky holiday. Mind you, that's "spooky" and not "pee-your-pants terrifying," so you won't find anything too intense in this bundle. You will, however, find a tough dog detective and his wise-cracking rabbit sidekick.
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by Jeff Mattas, Jan 01, 2012 1:00pm PST
Effectively conveying horror through the medium of video games is a pretty tricky task. Most games rely much too heavily on cat-scares, or copious amounts of blood and gore; tactics which are akin to building a cake entirely out of frosting. Games like Home by Benjamin Rivers, on the other hand, take a much more psychologically-driven approach where dramatic tension, disturbing mysteries, and the player's own imagination are leveraged to create atmosphere more so than typically cheap scares.
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