Here Be Monsters In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024 Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.
Here Be Monsters The Unsettling Mindfulness of Horror By Emma Kostopolus • August 2nd, 2023 To succeed in a survival horror experience, mindfulness is an incredibly helpful tool.
Here Be Monsters Dead Space’s Unsettling Colonialism By Emma Kostopolus • March 2nd, 2023 If you’ve been reading this column, like, at all, you know that praise must always be coupled with loving criticism.
The Burnt Offering Neverending Horror By Stu Horvath • October 20th, 2014 Stu Horvath wonders why videogames aren’t so great at horror. Then he plays Neverending Nightmares.
The Sporting Bane of Games By Stephen Beirne • July 1st, 2013 Stephen Beirne embarks on a Swiftian treatise outlining the great tyranny of sports games.
Beginnings in the Dead Space Trilogy By Dan Crabtree • February 25th, 2013 Dan Crabtree ventures into the openings of the Dead Space games.
Fear No More By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2013 Who’s afraid of the big bad necromorphs? Not Stu Horvath.
The American Culture of Horror: Dead Space By Stu Horvath • January 28th, 2011 Unwinnable’s look at American Horror comes to an end with a look at the Dead Space videogame franchise and our Special Relationship with the United Kingdom.