Horror Video Game ‘Silent Hill’ Explores Dark Paradoxes in Normalcy
Inspired by Japanese Buddhism and American pop culture, the grotesque is a metaphor for normalcy in the horror video game Silent Hill.
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The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes to ‘Detention’
Nick and Eric got sent to detention and missed Halloween, but they escaped their classroom just in time to talk about the Taiwanese horror game Detention.
Navigating the Hollywood Monsters of the ‘Resident Evil’ Videogame Franchise
From crawling to walking to running to the White House: dissecting 20 years of zombie evolution, courtesy of Resident Evil.
Watching and Waiting to Die: Our Fascination with ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’
All that you can do in Five Nights at Freddy's is watch. And wait to die. But what the game really illustrates is that what we really want to do is watch other people wait to die.
Moving Pixels Podcast: ‘White Night’, White Noir
White Night tells the story of a haunted house and a decaying American economy.
Scarcely Seeing: Light as a Limited Resource in Survival-Horror
In White Night, it is not a shotgun, but light itself, that is your only ally, and light in in this game is in terrifyingly short supply.
‘Day Z’: Putting Survival and Horror Back in the Survival-Horror Genre
Day Z demonstrates that we will never get used to the unpredictability of another player or the fear that that unpredictability brings.