Spencer of Ghost Volta: "Knowing the context behind game development can influence how the game is perceived. As a journalist, this can be dangerous, as it runs the risk of increasing bias, especially if any part of it hits home. This is especially true of Neverending Nightmares, a personal project from Infinitap Games’ Matt Gilgenbach based around his own battles with mental illness. Knowing this context prior to playing Neverending Nightmares gives its particular portrait of depression meaning; it’s very similar to what Gilgenbach has suffered through himself."
At the end of Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, ABG's editors open up about their own experiences, and look back at the Video Game industry's sordid past, and the advances made in recent years in tackling this most sensitive of subjects
With Capcom’s horror series commemorating its 25th anniversary today, here are seven horror games non-horror fans might enjoy.
I'd add a couple of honorable mentions. Cursed Mountain on the Wii and Cold Fear on PS2/Xbox.
Not played Cursed Mountain but I enjoyed Cold Fear. It almost felt a bit Dead Space-ey.
Why would you play games from other series to celebrate the anniversary of Resident Evil? WTF.
Because Resident Evil is an iconic piece of video game history that inspired many horror games
Why would non-horror fans want to play a horror game? Crap title, some good games though.
Tbf, some of those aren't even horror games. They're just action games with some horror on them. I'm not a horror game player and I played TLoU and Bioshock which are on that list
Half life 2's Ravenholm level alone has more horror than the whole of Bioshock.
Hardcore Gamer: The dark, disturbing artwork would have worked perfectly in the format of a comic or cartoon – and now we’re getting a manga.
