Gears of War is a beloved Xbox title, a third-person shooter video game that helped popularize the use of cover-based combat.

Metaphor: ReFantazio was one of CNET's games of the year in 2024, and Xbox Game Pass subscribers can experience the game for themselves now.

Microsoft has announced new titles coming to Game Pass in late May, including Metaphor: ReFantazio, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, and more.

On paper, horror video games seem like a fine fit for the cinematic treatment, given their emphasis on atmosphere and startling creature designs. Hell, the success of the Resident Evil movies ...

From Resident Evil to Silent Hill, we’ve seen our fair share of horror game adaptations. Where some hit their mark, others leave behind what made these fictional stories truly terrifying.

The game thrives on psychological horror, insane chase sequences, and a sense of helplessness that makes every second feel like a life-or-death situation. Resident Evil is all about zombies and ...

Whenever you launch a horror game ... on a haunted video game. Items can disappear, auditory hallucinations can be heard (all in-game, of course), the blue screen of death could rear its ugly ...

Instead, the scares are induced one step at a time in a massive silo where one wrong move means falling to your death. White Knuckle is a first-person wall-climbing horror game that sees you ...

Multiplayer horror games add excitement and fear by necessitating ... the Hunters are heavily armed and it’s up to the hiders to pose as immobile NPCs throughout the map. The mannequins can ...

The Arkham Horror universe has a whole lot of games in its catalogue. In fact, there are so many to choose from that we’ve had to separate them into two guides. In this buying guide, we will go ...

The horror video game genre has been around for years but has always delivered some of the most unique experiences you can find. Unlike multiplayer games or RPGs, horror games stand out as some of ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. Horror as a theme has a storied ...