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Immediately after a jam-packed PlayStation State of Play, Konami aired a Silent Hill Transmission livestream, where the publisher shared a slew of details on the multiple Silent Hills projects currently in development.

Platform 8, the sequel to acclaimed walking simulator game The Exit 8, is now available for PC via Steam for $3.99, developer KOTAKE CREATE announced.

This piece is being written on a train as I trundle towards our very first staff meeting with Rock Paper Shotgun's new overlords. The morning is cloudy but bright and calm, the north London suburbs are a blissful checkerboard of red roofs and flourishing lawns, hope glistens faintly in the gutters and ditches beside the tube. How unlike the innards of Centum, a point-and-click horror game (Steam page here) that begins with a dreary retro desktop interface on which there are curious text files, curioser decryption tools and most curious of all, an .exe of some kind that drops you into a simulation consisting of a stone prison chamber. Hang on, I'm changing trains...

We’re right on the precipice of June, which will be chock-full of new game announcements from every publisher. In fact, that wave already started with Sony’s May 30 State of Play. Still, just because this time of year is mainly focused on video game announcements doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be playing anything new. If you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber in particular, there are three titles you can have a great time with this weekend.

Survios has released the first look trailer and first screenshots of newly announced virtual reality action horror game Alien: Rogue Incursion.

The Until Dawn remake will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC this fall, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Ballistic Moon announced.

Sony shared a first look at the Until Dawn remake coming to for PS5 and PC, confirming that the game is still set to release in late 2024.

Earlier this year, Sony announced a remake of the cult-favorite narrative horror game Until Dawn from Ballistic Moon, a new studio founded by veterans of original Until Dawn creators Supermassive Games. The game is being developed with Unreal Engine 5 and will feature a fully controllable camera rather than the old-school fixed angles of the original game. That all sounds good, but the original teaser trailer for the new Until Dawn didn’t really show us much.

Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 is due to hit PlayStation 5 and PC on October 8, and it's looking nice and spooky. It's available to pre-order on the PlayStation Store and Steam.

At today's State of Play May 2024 presentation, Sony released a new trailer for the upcoming remaster of Until Dawn and confirmed that the enhanced port for PC and PS5 will be released in Fall 2024.

Most games’ protagonists are heroes, gunning down bad guys or trying to save the princess. You could argue the protagonist of Life Eater is kind of like a hero. Sure, he stalks people relentlessly before murdering them in the service of a dark god. But if he didn’t do that, the world would end. So really, when you think about it, this is a noble mission — and by enacting Zimforth’s will, I’m saving the world.

Sam Levinson’s drama series Euphoria has been a spectacular launching pad for new movie stars, with Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, and Jacob Elordi all seeing their film careers take off after the show’s first season. Hunter Schafer is the latest Euphoria player heading for film stardom, with her first leading role coming up in Neon’s late-summer horror movie Cuckoo. Schafer plays Gretchen, an American teenager reluctantly joining her father, stepmother, and mute half-sister at a remote German resort run by a deeply creepy man (The Guest’s Dan Stevens) whose excessively friendly front is obviously hiding some deeper motivations.

Konami will return to the cursed town of Silent Hill for a new livestream event on Thursday, promising new looks at in-development games and the upcoming movie based on the venerable horror franchise. The latest Silent Hill Transmission will stream on May 30 at 4 p.m. PDT/7 p.m. EDT. You can watch it on the official Silent Hill YouTube channel.

MAGES. has released a new set of screenshots, a new visual, and a first look at the monkey doll included with the “Monkey Set” limited edition of horror game sequel Corpse Party II: Darkness Distortion in Japan.

is littered with eligible bachelors but it's many believe that Harvey is one of the worst andone player now has conclusive evidence as to why that's the case. The quiet, socially awkward doctor who's always around to stitch up Farmers who may succumb to the horrors of the mines presents like a decent marriage candidate but when it comes to looking after a home, he has a lot to learn. Harvey is a gentle soul who's more comfortable behind his desk than roughing it amongst the animals and crops.

A studio known for creating horror games pivoting to a new genre isn’t unheard of. After all, Tango Gameworks shifted from creating games such as The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo to the goofy and colorful Hi-Fi Rush. The Taiwan-based studio Red Candle Games followed a similar trajectory on the way to its newest game, Nine Sols.

IllFonic has announced that has begun. With players able to get in ahead of next week’s full launch of the asymmetrical multiplayer title.

A whopping 1000 corpses have been found in our ongoing investigation into Anthology of the Killer, Rock Paper Shotgun can reveal. The bodies were discovered in the aforementioned murder mystery "video game", which is out now on itch.io. Following our previous reports we can confirm that exposure to the game's crime-infested city can cause severe disorientation, confusion, uncontrolled fits of laughter, and moderate enlightenment. The streets here are so dense with crime that entire apartment blocks must shutter at night. When Rock Paper Shotgun reported the 1000 corpses to detectives, we were told this was "normal" and "appropriate".

The 80s was a great time for fans of slasher films and horror in general, but I’d never heard of Killer Klowns from Outer Space before seeing the modern game trailer for the first time. I did know IllFonic, though, as the custodians of the late Friday the 13th: The Game, the more recent Predator: Hunting Grounds and a number of other asymmetrical multiplayer games.

Independent Japanese developer ChronoJuvenile has announced side-scrolling survival horror game THE LAST MATCH GIRL for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

Konami will host a Silent Hill Transmission broadcast on May 30 at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. ET, the company announced.

When it comes to the recent slew of classic horror films turned multiplayer-games, probably wasn't at the top of anybody's list. It's closely based on the 1988 film of the same name, in which a gang of rubber mask-wearing, murderous alien clowns descend on the small town of Crescent Cove. The game adaptation matches its energy well, with voice actors delivering stilted imitations of '80s teens as they try to avoid ridiculous Klowntalities. But making a good midnight movie and making a good multiplayer game are two very different things.

A bunch of smarmy teenagers with ridiculous haircuts trying to escape the gloved clutches of an alien race of clowns is the kind of absurd and cheesy premise that makes perfect fodder for the asymmetrical multiplayer horror genre. Following in the footsteps of Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, and many more licensed games, the 1988 cult classic film Killer Klowns from Outer Space is the latest horror movie to try its hand at capturing our still-beating hearts with high-stakes murder sports. I need to spend some more time with Killer Klowns once its servers go live, but so far I can say that trying to either escape those deadly Klowns with my life or do my best to murder every angsty teenager in sight is already stupid fun no matter which side I was on.

Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle.

They say it’s a strange summer for movies. Studios are putting all their chips on 2025 being the year that movie theaters come back, and are stacking the calendar accordingly. The big superhero movie houses are almost all on pause. Massive franchises are staying out of the summer window, with Dune: Part Two a spring fling and Joker: Folie à Deux biding its time until fall.

Double strikes, creative pauses, and slow-growing theater returns have made 2024 a quiet summer in entertainment — but that doesn’t mean it’s a sleepy one. Quite the opposite!

The PlayStation 2 is home to one of the most iconic gaming libraries of all time, and the selection of horror games available on the system is one major part of that. The original PlayStation spawned some long-running franchises like and, and even some lesser-known titles on the system offered interesting, atmospheric experiences. By the time the PS2 came around, the wheels didn't need any more greasing, and interesting horror titles came out like clockwork.

Resident Evil 6 has sold surprisingly well on the Nintendo Switch since it was ported to the console in 2019, despite it being almost universally panned by fans of the series. As spotted by Nintendo Life, RE6 just got added to Capcom’s Platinum Titles list, meaning it’s crossed the threshold of one million units sold. It sits at number 117 on the list, with a million downloads for the Switch (but not any other platforms).

Xbox Game Pass subscribers looking to change it up in June are in luck becausea horror game with an especially unique setting is set to arrive on the service in the middle of the month. There may already be plenty of terrifying games available on Game Pass, including modern hits like and, but thanks to Microsoft's handy Day One program, fans needn't wait for some of the most highly-anticipated releases. Subscribers will be able to quake with fear alongside everyone else who purchased the game on other platforms.

Summer’s around the corner — or maybe it’s already here, depending on the weather wherever you’re at. Either way, May is almost over, and that means movies leaving streaming services at the end of the month.

Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle.

Tokyo-based game developer DDDistortion has released a new trailer and screenshots for action horror third-person shooter NIGHTMARE OPERATOR, as well as announced that main character Misha has been redesigned by Gravity Rush series artist Takeshia Oga.

Episodic science-fiction horror adventure game Boyhood’s End will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam on September 6, publishers WSS playground and PLAYISM, and developer Bukiri Clock announced.

The odds are that I would never play from a thematic standpoint, but that same theme is exactly what made me fall in love with it. The 2015 hit title by FromSoftware, designed exclusively for PlayStation 4 consoles, is a fan-favorite among soulslike players and a lot of it is due to its unique gameplay. While still a soulslike game, the title set in Yharnam has a remarkable trick weapon system that allows players to, essentially, wield two distinct weapons in a single slot, and alternate between them seamlessly.

Publishers Kadokawa Corporation, Kadokawa Game Linkage, and ABC Animation, and developer Wodan have announced roguelike horror action game SHINONOME ABYSS: The Maiden Exorcist for PC (Steam). It will launch this fall.

Is it blasphemous to call a survival horror game “cozy”? Maybe so, but while thinking back on my playthrough of Crow Country, the word popped into my mind more than a few times.

The reboot of Alone in the Dark sold worse than expected, Embracer Group says.

Classic horror fans have been anticipating the PS5 launch of Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game, with some lucky con-goers getting to experience it early. Throughout the journey, we’ve sprinted around rides at the Amusement Park, and quietly snuck through the makeout spot at Top Of the World. Today, we’re bringing PlayStation Blog a never-before-seen map: Downtown Crescent Cove.

In Anthology of the Killer you do not exit the game using a pause menu. You exit it by walking down a back alley into the quavering arms of two hungry bears. This is just one of many laughs your diaphragm will endure as you navigate "the escalating adventures of a girl trying to make zines in a town of giallo-style masked serial murderers". The horror comedy already won its creators the Nuovo Award at the Independent Games Festival this year, recognition that has been a long time coming for prolific creator Stephen "thecatamites" Gillmurphy. If you're unfamiliar with his work, you can get acquainted next week, when Anthology of the Killer gets its full release on Itch.io on May 28th. At which point you can explore its unsettling urban hell of shady corporations and cops who think they're cool. There's a trailer below.

After a long wait, MultiVersus relaunches next week. I was able to go hands-on with this reworked version of the game early, and I also got the scoop on how its latest fighter, horror icon Jason Voorhees, was reimagined for the relaunch.

Yet another day-one game is coming to Xbox Game Pass soon. Currently, the subscription is considered one of the better deals in gaming, due to its regularly changing roster that includes beloved classics and day-one releases on the majority of its tiers, covering a wide variety of genres to appease most types of gamers. May has already seen several day-one releases on the subscription, such as the adorable cat simulator, the epic action-adventure title, and the intergalactic hospital management title, .

The Alone in the Dark reboot failed to meet sales expectations at the embattled Embracer Group, it has said.

It may be slightly early in the year to begin celebrating all things spooky and scary but Xbox Game Pass on PC is delivering an exceptional horror experience to all its subscribers in the early days of June. Following the loss of the excellent horror franchise , those players who want to feel the chills down their spine have been waiting patiently for the next major release to hit the platform. While June's earliest addition may not be a Day One drop, it is an exceptionally well-reviewed title that enthusiasts should definitely play.

Diablo 4 Season 4 has implemented a truly massive amount of changes — from Tempering to Greater Affixes to The Pit and more! However, some changes are smaller and less noticeable — until tragedy strikes the unwitting. Best Endgame Builds for Diablo 4 Season 4 Season 4 Gearing and Itemization Changes Blizzard has made a small change to the Blacksmith's Item Salvaging feature that can be ruinous for unaware players — by pressing the option to Salvage All Items, the Blacksmith will now also salvage Legendary and Unique Items. Previously, this option would only salvage all Rare, Magic, and Common quality items.

Act 3 of the horror deck-building journey of allows you to gather a limited type of item called Holo Pelts around different locations. These can be sold to The Trader, an NPC who sells you valuable cards in exchange for Pelts and Foils. Those looking to improve their deck will want to find every Pelt and give them to this mysterious character for rare and powerful cards.

Today, UK developer The Chinese Room (which is also currently busy with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2) unveiled the PC system requirements for Still Wakes the Deep. The upcoming first-person horror game is powered by Unreal Engine 5, but the minimum and recommended requirements listed on the Steam page don't appear to be too high:

I'm in love with a horror game I have never — and possibly will never — play for myself, and I'm not the only one. is a 2006 PlayStation 2 survival horror game that sports some of the most eye-wateringly high physical disc prices in the genre, so much so that curious fans are almost entirely locked out of a real playthrough on original hardware. With the success of survival horror remakes like the and series, a resurgence is improbable, but not impossible.

The warden's mask hangs heavy in, a new horror FPS roguelite developed by Villainous Games Studio and published by Neonhive Games. Infused with grim pastoral horror elements and dark village lore, 's experimental concept ultimately feels a tad uneven, but ambitious and interesting all the same. At its crudest, it diverts into a kind of FPS for stretches at a time, but its frequent randomization of rules and tools makes for fun bursts of session-based horror.

Australia is already notoriously riddled with creatures that can kill you, from the snakes and spiders that can surprise you in the shower to the sharks and stingrays that circle our shores. Still, that hasn’t stopped developer Weforge Studio from drafting in a malevolent monster from another dimension and inserting it at the very top of the Aussie food chain in Macabre, a co-op ‘stealth extraction horror’ adventure that aims to fuse the bowel-loosening cat and mouse thrills of Alien: Isolation with the gadget-based teamwork of Phasmophobia. After a brief hands-on with a very early build of the game, I can attest to the prowling predator’s stalking prowess since I didn’t actually get a good look at the beast until it was suddenly dragging me through the snow-capped forest setting and knitting a sickening scarf out of my entrails.

For the most part, games are a form of entertainment. However, many modern games tell stories, create experiences, and immerse the viewer into worlds beyond what they’d experience daily. At first, I was at a loss for words to eloquently describe game developer Ninja Theory’s latest title,  Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. It goes beyond a straightforward playthrough, not just telling the story of Senua but almost living it in real-time.

To borrow a tired Xitterism: The Venn diagram between ‘games that have reference points outside of other games’ and ‘games I’m likely to get excited about’ is a circle. For the benefit of people who’ve discovered the one weird trick that therapists hate and improved their mental health tenfold by deleting the bad place, here’s an incredibly cool thread I stumbled upon this morning where indie developers share non-game influences on their projects.

Microsoft has reportedly approved a new game from Hellblade 2 developer Ninja Theory and has no plans to close the studio.

The MultiVersus roster is expanding again, this time with two big bad guys: Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th horror franchise and Agent Smith from the Matrix films. Those two villains will join a pair of recently confirmed additions to MultiVersus: the Joker and Adventure Time’s Banana Guard.

MultiVersus just announced in its new launch trailer that horror legend Jason Voorhees is slashing his way onto the roster alongside Agent Smith. Get ready to watch the hockey mask behind Friday the 13th cut up all your favourite childhood icons.

We’re smack-dab in the middle of May and, if the reviews ofFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga are any indication, moviegoers are in for a hell of a show when it releases in theaters next week. If you’re looking for a fantastic film to tide you over until then, you’ve come to the right place, as we’ve once again dug into Netflix’s catalog to bring you the best sci-fi movies to stream on the platform this month.

The Finnish Game Awards 2024 were held last night, with Remedy's Alan Wake 2 taking home Finnish Game of the Year.

We've had the MCU, the DCEU and even the Dark Universe. Hell, we're potentially getting the NCU, or the Nintendo Cinematic Universe. But have you prepared yourself for the JU... the Jason Universe? No, we're not being facetious. This is a real thing.

Enormous asymmetrical horror outing Dead by Daylight is showing no signs of slowing, with its eighth anniversary ushering in some enormous collaborations. Dungeons & Dragons is the latest intellectual property to invade the series, with an upcoming expansion adding iconic villain Vecna as a new Killer and a Bard as a Survivor. Konami’s Castlevania will also infiltrate the series later in the year, although details are being kept under wraps for now.

You don't see or hear too much about Among Us these days, but it remains a popular social deduction game. As it turns out, developer Inner Sloth is far from done with the title — it recently highlighted all its plans for the remainder of 2024, with some pretty big changes incoming.

The low-key king of the modern survival-horror movie, Alexandre Aja — who’s made movies like Crawl, Oxygen, and The Hills Have Eyes — is back with a new film staring Halle Berry. The first trailer for Never Let Go was released on Thursday, and the movie already looks like a terrifying addition to Aja’s impressive canon of people trying to survive the very bad things that are happening to them.

IGN can exclusively report that Horror, Inc. is expanding the Friday the 13th franchise into a new era with the launch of Jason Universe.

The Epic Mega Sale, an annual sale on certain games in the Epic Games Store, has just begun. The discounts and deals will last four weeks — from May 16, starting at 11 am ET, to June 13 at 11 am ET — promising an “enormous range of discounts across the Epic Games Store’s library,” according to PR.

A remake of the original could spell disaster for. Capcom's revival of the landmark survival horror franchise has thus far been a resounding success. It's employed a two-pronged strategy, both remaking some of the series' most iconic hits while also developing brand-new titles. And it's met with acclaim on both ends. The most recent remake,, balanced the original's campy charm with modern polish, cementing itself as one of the best horror games of 2023. And the most recent new entry, , was a brilliantly-crafted nightmare at once fresh and familiar.

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HBO has revealed the first official images from the second season of The Last of Us, which shows Ellie and Joel looking a lot older. Well, Joel certainly looks older, at least.

Singapore-based publisher Soft Source Publishing and developers Digital Happiness and MassHive Media have announced DreadOut Remastered Collection for PlayStation 5 and Switch. It includes the original DreadOut and the new standalone game DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark. It will launch both physically and digitally in 2024 in Asia.

Behaviour Interactive has surprise released a Dead by Daylight roguelite spin-off.

It’s been a bit of a slow time of year for comedy movies, but 2024 has enough laugh-out loud gems to round out a list. And there’s a wide variety of sub-genres to pick from: musical reboots, existential animated kids’ movies, campy horror flicks, and even a DC parody.

Dead by Daylight is a game absolutely packed with murderous monsters, both original and licensed from other franchises. The next crossover is a little bit outside of the usual horror wheelhouse — Dead by Daylight is producing a chapter themed around the wildly popular tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons. Vecna, known in-game as The Lich, will be the game’s next Killer. Vecna is joined by a pair of Elven bards, one male and one female, who will serve as the new Survivors.

Behaviour Interactive have revealed a new trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone, a new horror adventure created by Supermassive Games, the team behind Until Dawn for Sony andThe Dark Pictures Anthology for Bandai Namco.

Back in December of last year we revealed The Casting of Frank Stone at the Game Awards, and we couldn’t have been happier with the reception.

Dead by Daylight turns eight today, and to celebrate the milestone, Behaviour Interactive held its anniversary stream to share new details on updates headed to the asymmetrical horror game. This includes an official reveal of a new game mode, details on the previously teased D&D chapter, and updates on its upcoming spinoff projects.

Behaviour Interactive is committed to growing Dead by Daylight as a franchise. That much is clear given that three spinoff games from the multiplayer horror hit were shown off during a live stream today. One of them is even out now.

Publisher Behaviour Interactive and developer Supermassive Games have released the first gameplay trailer and screenshots for Dead by Daylight single-player cinematic horror game The Casting of Frank Stone.

Publisher Behaviour Interactive and developer Midwinter Entertainment have shared an update on their previously announced player-versus-environment action horror game from the world of Dead by Daylight. Codenamed Project T, the game is in its very early stages of development. However, Midwinter Entertainment has launched the Insider Program to allow players to become participants in the game’s development.

Given the wide success of their horror dating sim featuring Natsuki, Monika, Sayori, and Yuri, it's expected that Team Salvato would expand on that success with . With six new side stories and tons of new unlockable content, players have lots of new content to look forward to in the Literature Club, including its origin story.

With the release of, the classic psychological horror experience is back with new side stories featuring Sayori, Natsuki, Yuri, and, of course, Monika. While there is plenty of new content to explore, one thing that remains true for the Literature Club is that players will need to pick their words wisely to win over their dream girl's heart.

What if Scorn, but it's one that your mum got you for Christmas? That's easy, it's Necrophosis, baby. Much like Scorn, Necrophosis is also part-inspired by the dystopian surrealist works of Zdzisław Beksiński, which means lots of plucking brains out of sinewy bodies and plopping them into fleshy receptacles. There's a demo out now and while it's not outstanding, it tickled my curiosity more than I thought it would.

Every monster needs an origin story. Here’s mine.