Still Wakes the Deep is impressive and cinematic. But it’s also a mire of the dreadful and wincingly foul.
These Killer Klown invaders come toting cotton candy ray guns and wearing galumphy shoes. But don’t forget the M-rated side …
This is a nightmarishly puzzling and creative survival horror game. But its clotted and foul side feels sticky and oppressive.
Not every good idea can ascend into the pantheon of great games. Silent Hill: Ascension barely makes it off the …
Dead Island 2 revels in profanity-spewing, bone-crunching, gut-rending, zombie-mulching carnage.
When a game looks this sweet, can it hold anything bad? Ohhh yes!
Fans of the old Resident Evil titles should think long and hard before wandering into this Village.
Twists, turns and a lot of shooting fill this creative-yet-problematic hybrid title for the PS5.
Like plunging into a horrific fever dream, Little Nightmares II propels players into some dark and disturbing places.
This third-person, psychological horror game is packed to the brim with all things creepy and foul.
Zombie splatter might be the least of players’ worries in this brutal cautionary tale about emotional cost of seeking revenge.
The remake of this 1999 game adds two decades of realism and detail to this already gore-drenched zombie apocalypse.
There’s really only one franchise that corners the market on gory, gloppy demon-butchering.
One look at the titular building in Batman: Arkham Asylum, and you can understand why Gotham City has such a …
Many a classic film has used well-known landmarks as backdrops for its celluloid diorama. Moviemakers love this because a shot …
“No Gods or Kings. Only Man.” That’s the banner bidding you enter the underwater Art Deco mecca of Rapture. You …
Two things have perpetually stayed the same as the Wolfenstein franchise fast approaches the age of 30: The dreaded Nazis …
When Resident Evil made its U.S. debut on the PlayStation in the mid ’90s, it raised an unexpectedly eerie head …
In retrospect, I’d have to say my high school days were pretty typical. I’d worry about tests. I’d worry about …
‘Resident Evil’ and the sequels it spawned have helped define spooky, zombie shoot-’em-up games. Enter #4.
Glistening eel-like tentacles sprout from my shoulder blades and hover in anticipation above a gunned-down thug. Razor-sharp teeth gnashing, the …
When it comes to most vampire stories, you can count on three things: blood, death and a sexual link between …
Today’s action video games are, on the whole, often pretty similar. Gamemakers drop players into hyper-adrenalized situations, give them obliterating …
The latest DMC entry is a stylish-but-brainless, hack-and-slash demonic gore-fest.
In Rapture vernacular, pal, this underwater thriller BioShock is back for another go-round. Is it the cat’s meow or just …
If you’re as, um, mature as me, when you see the brand Warner Bros. you probably think of a Saturday …
The first Devil May Cry game was actually intended as a sequel in the Resident Evil video game series, but …
Do you know what shape this year’s most diabolical game comes wrapped in? A circle. Actually, nine circles. Abandon hope, …
This runaway indie hit is cute on the outside but far less cuddly than it initially appears once you get …
You might want to think twice before locking yourself into this VR escape room.
This M-rated zombie-splatting sequel is all about building a civilized outpost amid a lot of rot.
The Inpatient uses a new tool to make your VR experience even more disturbingly immersive: your own voice.
This sprawling, glitchy game is far different and far darker than its campy, cartoony exterior suggests.
Virtual reality changes a lot about the Doom experience. But it’s still a stomach-, mind- and spirit-roiling jaunt.
The latest Call of Duty installment marches bloodily back to the battles where the franchise began.
“Ugh, who comes up with this stuff?” asks hero in this horror survival sequel. It’s an apt question for the …
Get Even is an ambitious, genre-blurring title that tries to offer a moral, but stains its intended message with M-rated …
This cartoonish horror game has people talking, but it’s the kind of story that could easily leave many a nightmare …
This reimagining of the Resident Evil franchise’s early iterations takes a nasty, horrific turn.
This zombie game packs a surprising emotional wallop … but plenty of brain-busting, too.
The Doom franchise has always been about run-and-gun mayhem. And little has changed except for just how graphically goopy its …
The Dark Souls games are excruciating in their difficulty, and their content is dank and demonic. That’s exactly what the …
In a game full of choices, this is your biggest one: Do you want to play something that’s the equivalent …
In this trilogy conclusion, the witcher Geralt searches, sexes and slaughters his way through 100-plus hours of horror.
Bloodborne is intended to be a long, grinding and utterly bleak gaming experience. Which means there’s disease lurking in those …
In tag-team episodic play, the latest messy Resi tackles the infected hordes once again. But with little Natalie, there’s more …
An eerily shadowed blinking-light screen-full-of-static chill. But not your typical scare-fest game.
Zombie, zombies everywhere, without a bite to eat. Except you if you run too slow.
What would you do if all your friends were turned into slavering, gnarly mutants? Sunset Overdrive wants you to find …
Have you figured out yet that there’s a pirate’s tale at the heart of this salty sequel? But is it …
A dead cop has to solve his own murder in Salem, Mass. Do ya think there might be a witch …
This series prequel sets gamers loose in a JRPG world filled with tense sibling rivalry.
RPG sword-slashing and demon possession burn out this fantasy epic from the inside, leaving only a charred shell of a …
The incredibly difficult Dark Souls franchise delivers another 40-plus hour journey into a virtual world that’s all about dying over …
The Dark Knight is a creature of the night, a time when it is, of course, dark. And dark is …
A girl and her ghost grow up to take on the bad guys, all manner of spiritual evil and even …
Zombies shuffle aside this time around as the vampires take their turn in a deadly undead video game romp.
This cinematically minded zombie thriller is already being bandied about as a potential Game of the Year contender. It’s a …
Is it actually a new revelation or still dead men walking as old man Resident Evil raises his weathered head …
Living in an underground metro system while the surface above glows from nuclear devastation is not an easy life. And …
And the worst vacation ever just won’t die! (The zombies won’t allow it.)
If you’re thinking tall tower, trapped girl and long blonde hair, you’ve got the wrong fairy tale. Rapunzel didn’t have …
AMC’s hit TV show shambles over into video game territory … and promptly dies a horrible death.
What’s that gnawing on your space boot? Why, it’s an undead space zombie, back for another bite.
This hack ‘n’ slasher is a monster to play, difficult beyond almost all others in the genre. But that’s not …
Far Cry 3 has packed its vacation suitcase full of foul food. But if you don’t go along for the …
Evil corporations have fallen. Zombie-filled cities have gone up in a puff of nuclear smoke. Yet the gurgling grotesqueries of …
The seal has been broken and the horseman Death is on the move. But this Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse …
This hyper-quirky game adds gold glitter and cherry lip balm to the gory business of zombie killing.
Fallen angels, hell-spawned horrors and a brutal battle between good and evil lurk in this M-rated fantasy role-playing game, which …
Same quarantined city. Same ravaging virus. Same malevolent government types. Maybe a new shape-shifting killer will make a difference. Or …
Silent Hill is being drenched by a stormy and sinister weather front. But don’t screaming children and shrieking beasties sort …
What do you get when you (again) give gun-toting mobsters demonic superpowers? Pretty much exactly what you’d expect.
Batman has to make sense of things in a city full of psychopaths in this sequel.
The slugline on the game box reads, “Prepare to Die!” And, boy, it ain’t kiddin’.
The worst vacation ever … in so many (zombified) ways.
The third big shootout between humans and the Chimera. Or is it between courage and gore?
One of the most buzzed about games of the year, Catherine offers a mind-bending, M-rated mash-up of romance, horror, dark …
Marketing materials for this dark shooter promise a “hellish nightmare” and “paralyzing paranormal horror.” F.E.A.R. 3 does its M-rated “best” …
To market its bloody new horror shooter, Electronic Arts told potential customers that Dead Space 2 is “revolting”—and that “your …
The dead are back in the video game blender as a new hero works to mulch zombies … and save …
This time-twisting shooter offers up old-school Soviet dominators along with rabid zombies … all on a radioactive island.
Alan Wake has been pulled into a dark world of his own imagining. But it’s gamers who may walk away …
Shakespeare’s line “murder most foul” has lost most of its punch over the years. This game sets out to define …
