Dead Space Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/dead-space/ Stories about Culture Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:54:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Dead Space Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/dead-space/ 32 32 Dead Wives’ Society: Male Guilt and the Horror Game https://unwinnable.com/2025/09/09/dead-wives-society-male-guilt-and-the-horror-game/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:03:54 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=101608 The important things remain the same: there is a man, there are the horrors and there is the specter of the woman he loved and lost.

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]]> In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto https://unwinnable.com/2024/03/05/in-defense-of-the-jump-scare-a-manifesto/ https://unwinnable.com/2024/03/05/in-defense-of-the-jump-scare-a-manifesto/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:03:06 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=94905 Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.

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]]> https://unwinnable.com/2024/03/05/in-defense-of-the-jump-scare-a-manifesto/feed/ 1 The Unsettling Mindfulness of Horror https://unwinnable.com/2023/08/02/the-unsettling-mindfulness-of-horror/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 04:03:33 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=92680 To succeed in a survival horror experience, mindfulness is an incredibly helpful tool.

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