Survival horror

Games sometimes venture into contraversial territory but the upcoming downloadable title Eden could test the limits of what themes games can tackle. MTV's Multiplayer site has posted up some info on the game which is based on Antichrist, a movie that has "extremely sexual and violent imagery"

The article has some quotes from the game's director Morten Iversen who used to work at Io Interactive. Iverson stated that Antichrist's director, Lars Von Trier, "been extremely fond of video games for ages." However even Iversen admits that making a game based on the subject matter of Antichrist will be hard, saying, "It will be a very controversial game, and it'll be a game that doesn't really compare with anything else.""

While Eden is still in its early stages (it's not scheduled for release until 2010) one interesting aspect of the game is that it will ask you what your phobias are and depending on your answer "certain themes will be loaded into the game to challenge you on those phobias." Our big phobia is about sexy bikini models; they scare us a lot.

Valve's Steam service has announced its regular weekend sale, cutting the prices on a couple of acclaimed horror themed action-adventure titles. All of the Penumbra games from developer Frictional Games have been cut 75 percent for this weekend only.

You can choose to buy Penumbra Black Plague Gold Edition (with the original game and the expansion Penumbra Requiem) or Penumbra Overture separately for $3.75 and $2.50, respectively. Or you can get both games in the Penumbra collectors pack for just $5. Either way it's a massive bargain. Frictional Games are currently working on their next horror themed game Unknown for release sometime in 2010.

While there have been lots of hints and rumors about a PC release of Resident Evil 5, publisher Capcom has kept saying the survival horror game was only announced for the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. Until today, that is. In a new press release, Capcom has finally admitted that a PC port of their best selling game is in the works after all.

While Capcom is still keeping specific release dates on the down low, saying only it's coming " later in the year" they did say there will be online co-op support in the PC version. It will also support Nvidia's GeForce 3D Vision glasses giving gamers who want that sort of thing a way to play the game with 3D effects.

This is the full playable demo for Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason, a survival-horror action game.

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Electronic Arts' alien evolution sim game Spore continues to stay in the top 10 best selling PC games list, showing that even a title that didn't live up to its considerable hype can still be a consistent seller. EA is prepping it's first major expansion to the game in Spore Galactic Adventures and this week the publisher did something a little . . .different to promote its upcoming release.

In short they have gotten together to make new panoramic screenshots from the game (Flash required). Simply take your mouse cursor over the shots and then click and drag to get the full 360 degree effect. We have one shot above and you can see another after the jump. By the way, Spore Galactic Adventures is due out on June 23.

A couple of months ago Variety posted up rumors that Konami was going to take over as the publisher of the game based on the Saw horror films. Today Variety has now confirmed those rumors, saying that the publisher will release the Zombie Studios-developed game for the PC and other platforms this fall, around the time Saw IV is released to theaters by Lionsgate.

The Variety article also has the first actual screenshots from the game (reproduced here) The game itseld will have an original story and not an adaptation of any of the films. The game has your character trying to solve the nasty torture puzzles put in place by the movie's villain Jigsaw. The game was one of the many titles under the now defunct Brash Entertainment which went under in a rather spectacular fashion lasf fall.

After releasing a number of games in its Penumbra series of horror-themed action adventure games, developer Frictional Games has now offered up some early gameplay footage from their next title. The survival horror game, which was formally announced back in September, now has a title, Unknown.

There's still not a lot of info on the game itself but the footage, posted up by the developer on YouTube, does show off some of the new physics and lighting effect Frictional Games are putting into their in-house game engine. In fact the developer plans to release the game's editing tools for mod makers to create their own content when Unknown is released. We will have to wait a little while, however. Unknown is slated for release in the spring quarter of 2010.

This cinematic trailer for the upcoming survival horror game, Dante's Inferno, provides some early glimpses or what players can expect. Based (very) loosely on the epic poem "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, players will have to traverse through the nine rings of hell and confront the horrible sins they represent. Of course, it's probably safe to say players will see much more demon and soul slaying action in the game than in the poem.

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The Penumbra Collection puts the entire psychological horror series into one box. It will include Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and the recent expansion Penumbra: Requiem. Expect to dive into the mystery later this month when the collection releases.

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Download Penumbra: Overture Demo for Windows (117 MB) and Mac (133 MB)

Australia has been known for some time as one of the hardest countries to get an adult-oriented game approved by the local ratings board. The lack of an adult rating for games (unlike their movie industry) is the main cuprit. Now a title that was once banned for sale in the country, Silent Hill: Homecoming, has had that decision overturned.

According to a Gamespot AU story, Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification has now given Konami's survival horror game a MA15+ rating, the highest a game can get without being banned for sale. It's currently unknown if the publisher made a push to release the game as is or if any edits to the game's violent content were made. Last month a simiar ban on Monolith's upcoming horror shooter F.E.A.R 2 was also overturned.

Update: Games On Net confirms that the game was in fact edited for contest in order to receive the MA15+ rating

We named Electronic Arts sci-fi survival horror title Dead Space the best PC action game of 2008. If you also enjoyed the game you might be interested to know that the comic book web site Newsarama has posted up the entire first issue of the Dead Space comic book mini-series for free.

Published last year before the game was released the six-issue mini-series from Image Comics serves as a prequel to the game's storyline so if you have yet to play the game you might want to hold off until you do so before you read the comic. The entire mini-series has now been collected in a hardcover collection and is now on sale.

EA Redwood Studios, the developers of Dead Space, is working on Dante's Inferno - a new horror game based loosely on the medieval epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The game will be a third-person action game where the main character, who happens to be named Dante, makes his way through the nine circles of hell in pursuit of his beloved Beatrice. We're guessing that the game will include a lot more combat than the poem does.

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Much like the other Valve games on Steam, Left 4 Dead has some achievements! They run your standard fare, from killing Smokers that have your buddies to completing missions. Some of them, though, are downright impossible. Achievements so ridiculously hard that just attempting them is depressing. Well, that's what we're here for! Want to know how to kill a Witch in a single shot or how to beat campaigns using only the pistols? Here's how!

So you've bought Left 4 Dead, installed it, booted it up, and began a game with three of your best friends. But you are getting your ass kicked by the hordes of bloodthirsty zombies on the easiest difficulty setting. Not to fear! With our guide to the art (and zen) of zombie killing, you and your friends will be throwing people off roofs and busting through destroyed doors in no time! Just try not to scare a murder of crows on your way through this guide. You wouldn't want to get ripped apart in a field full of crops, now would you?

Fresh off of Dead Air, it's time to learn a thing or two about hard campaigns. And Blood Harvest is one of those campaigns. Tons of enemies, lots of areas for enemies to come from or hide in, and a general overall hatred that the AI Director has for the survivors makes this the hardest campaign of all four by a long shot. So buckle down and get ready to die a lot!

So you've bought Left 4 Dead, installed it, booted it up, and began a game with three of your best friends. But you are getting your ass kicked by the hordes of bloodthirsty zombies on the easiest difficulty setting. Not to fear! With our guide to the art (and zen) of zombie killing, you and your friends will be throwing people off roofs and busting through destroyed doors in no time! Just try not to get caught in the explosion of a crashing jet on your way through this guide. You wouldn't want to be squished and smeared across the ground out of nowhere, now would you?

Ready to return to the environments of No Mercy, sprinkled with a sharp difficulty increase? Of course you are. Fresh from your victory in Death Toll, it's time to work your way through another claustrophobic urban environment! Only this time, it's going to be so constricting that it actually hurts your team instead of helping. It's all worth playing through the urban environments again, though, because the finale is just so incredible. See for yourself.