Nine years after they made F.E.A.R., a sizeable contingent of the devs from that team released a little indie title called Betrayer, and it’s the best horror shooter nobody’s ever heard of. I have incredibly vivid memories of the time Betrayer came into my life, where I played it, and most importantly, who I played it with. It was my last year of college when I stumbled upon this gem of a game. I was an RA on the freshman floor of a UMass Lowell dorm (sorry, sorry — a residence hall), and my door was open all the time
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30 Games That Made Me Who I Am: 2005
For me, fear and videogames have always been inexorably linked. The earliest games I have memories of are the ones that terrified me; and the ones that stuck with me longest are the ones that left a general dread in my soul. We all — secretly or not — love to be scared, don’t we? Some pretty silly stuff scared me when I was a kid, but that was my overactive imagination doing most of the work. In my teens I got into the real deal. Okay, maybe not the real deal; I’m still too skittish for straight horror games,
What If… (Videogames, Star Wars, and the Power of Fanon)
I remember being read a story when I was a kid. Nothing about the plot or the characters — what I remember is the ending, and it’s stuck with me for something like two decades. The story ended… by not ending. Not just by leaving questions unanswered or threads untied, but literally telling the reader, “Now you come up with your own ending!” You might laugh if I say that to me it was a moment of profound frustration, disappointment — even betrayal. But it was. I can still remember how disturbing it was to me and how lost I