Tag Archives: Halloweek 2014

Wait dreaming no longer! Hallowe’en is a special time of year. So special, in fact, that we couldn’t let our celebratory Halloweek go by without making a very special effort to do a very special thing indeed. To that end, we’ve resurrected the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft, master of fevered …

There’s a bit at the beginning of Gears of War, appropriately referenced in our feature on inappropriate jump-scares (opens in new tab), in which Epic’s inaugural chainsaw carnival wrong-foots you with a hint that it might be a horror game. After trekking through Marcus’ deserted, decaying prison for a little …

Scream Rocket Torture–that most brutal application of pain–was first discovered by an unwitting ‘Adam 1’ in the biblical Garden of Eden. After accidentally pulling out a lock of Eve’s precious hair, Earth’s first woman quickly reciprocated with the old ‘bamboo up the fingernails’ treatment, followed by several hours of ‘electro-sponge’ …