Articles tagged lovecraft

Alone in the Dark by Graeme Strachan | 07-07-08

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In 1992 the small French videogame company Infrogrames made a game set in a Victorian-era New England mansion; where demon dogs, ghosts and other horrors ran riot while Paranormal Investigator Edward Carnby tried to escape with his life and soul intact. The 3D graphics and quirky use of odd camera angles made it an instant classic, inspiring the Resident Evil series and helping give birth to the survival horror genre. A few lacklustre sequels followed before the series underwent a modern day reboot in 2001 with the groundbreaking New Nightmare. Seven years later, the mantle of Carnby has to be taken up in this modern day semi-sequel to the original.

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On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness by Graeme Strachan | 04-06-08

Once upon a midnight dreary, while you pondered weak and weary, a massive giant robot stood on your house, crushing it to the ground and leaving you homeless. Not the best start to the evening. To compound matters it left a horde of evil fruit-juicer robots in its wake; Robots with a tendency to kill people (when not sexually assaulting an unfortunate orange or two). The solution is obvious, team up with two local lunatics and chase after the monstrous hellion, killing clowns, mimes, and some vagrant winos along the way...