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You remember it. Who can forget that creepy and evil girl crawling out of the well and coming through the television to claim her victim? This scene quickly became one of the most terrifying moments in horror movie history. Well, almost twenty years (and a few not-so-great sequels) later, people are still talking about how insane this movie was. Well, if you can’t get enough of creepy videos that could spell a death sentence, then these games should be perfect....

While downloadable content has most often been used to get more money out of a game’s release, there are a fair number of games that have made the choice to offer free DLC to players. A lot of the time, this DLC is much more limited in scope than what is typically offered as paid DLC. However, there have been several times where a game has released free DLC that rivaled the typical paid content that gamers expect....

This article contains spoilers for Rick and Morty seasons 1-5. After nine years, five seasons, and fifty-one episodes, Rick and Morty shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Even with season 6 hitting our screens and seasons 7 and 8 on the horizon, co-creator Dan Harmon has mentioned that he’d love to see the series hit 1000 episodes during its run. While we wait for the adventures of Rick and Morty to continue, we decided to take a look back at the episodes from the last five seasons to determine which are the best of the best....

With October comes Halloween and with Halloween comes watching lots and lots of horror and horror-adjacent movies. These iconic movies usually have many spinoffs and, for better and for worse, sometimes that means video game tie-ins, too. Over the decades, we’ve seen the events of Halloween both adapted into being chased by Michael Myers via Atari graphics but also being chased by Michael Myers in the far superior Dead by Daylight....

In the realm of video game athletics, EA Sports takes home the gold medal for exclusive licensing. Since 2004 and 2005, the company has held exclusive publishing rights for NFL and NCAA football games respectively, and both Madden NFL and NCAA Football have raked in millions as a partial result. But while the last decade has seen the two series develop into veritable brand names, some gamers have harbored animosity towards EA Sports for their trouncing of the competition....

If all aspects of the Battlefield series were going perfectly according to plan, the developers of Battlefield Hardline would still have a difficult task ahead of them; not only is Visceral Games trying to put their own spin on the franchise as opposed to DICE, but doing so in a new environment and backdrop as well. But as those who have followed the Battlefield series lately know, things haven’t been going according to plan....

Sometimes things go from bad to worse, and other times that assumed “rock bottom” gives way to even lower lows. Such is the case with Battlefield 4 right now. After experiencing significant server issues and gameplay crashes, Battlefield 4 players are now reporting even more problems with DICE’s latest shooter. Most recently, there have been some “intermittent connectivity issues affecting players across various platforms.” DICE revealed the connectivity issues on the Battlelog forums earlier today, stating that they are continuing to monitor the problem....

The criminal missions seem to have been largely inspired by the popularity of recent games like Payday 2 and Grand Theft Auto V, which challenge players to set up and then execute a major robbery. These kind of crimes won’t be limited to single locations like banks, however; the Hotwire game mode requires players to take on the roles of either cops or car thieves and engage in car chases across huge open environments....

Information about Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 has been releasing rapidly over the last couple weeks. First, we were treated to social media posts that hinted at the game’s launch this year, followed by a short teaser video that confirmed those suspicions. Developer Treyarch then released another teaser trailer this week that provided a few details about the storyline in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Now, it looks like we have a bit more information thanks to a leaked GameStop pre-order promo card, which states Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will be available on Friday, November 6th....

DayZ’s origin story has been a long and incredibly public one since the early days of the survival-themed ARMA 2 mod’s popularity. The fan-created slow, intense horror mod for the shooter ended up outshining the game it was built upon and took on a life of its own. After a series of seemingly countless delays, supporters of DayZ are finally one step closer to seeing a finished product. Well over a year after a stand-alone version of the mod was green lit, fans are finally able to get their hands on a early prototype of DayZ....

After debuting with a heart-wrenching trailer early this year, first person Zombie survival title Dead Island jumped from relative obscurity to talks of film rights being sold and “most anticipated game we know nothing about.” Finally in gameplay form, Dead Island is being shown at events like E3 2011, where it has much more buzz surrounding it because of that trailer. Now people will once again be talking about the Dead Island trailer for having received an advertising award from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity....

When one thinks about the zombie apocalypse, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a dark and foreboding city steeped in destruction. Coming from a series that fit this characterization, Dead Island 2 takes a step away from this generalization and instead brings zombie slaying out onto the sunshine-tinged sidewalks of California. Designed by Yager Development, this latest instalment in the Dead Island series made waves when it was first announced at Sony’s E3 2014 media presentation....

Important life lesson: Don’t get your expectations too high. Never is this more apparent than with Duke Nukem Forever. Almost a decade and a half of waiting for what was promised to be Duke’s biggest outing ever - and the title ultimately suffered under the weight of its own hype. For many the game failed to live up to their expectations - even if it could be argued that those fans expected a little too much....

When a company is acquired by another, bigger (and richer) company, the acquired team are afforded two things. For one, they’re given a whole chunk of change that wouldn’t go amiss on the Forbes list and if their new owner has enough clout then they’re also provided with a big bit of brand weight to help them do their bidding. That’s what’s been happening with Oculus VR, the team behind the Oculus Rift headset despite some fans and game developers jumping swiftly off of the Oculus bandwagon after the company was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion, Oculus VR is moving ahead and taking on competitors like Sony’s Project Morpheus with even more force, using the hiring of new employees to do it....

With a little under a month until E3 2014, publishers and developers from around the globe have begun teasing their forthcoming projects. Some companies, like Sony and the next chapter of the Uncharted franchise, are taking a more direct approach, while others are trying to keep things subtle. Case in point: Microsoft and their latest tease for Halo 5, a title that should be a major showpiece for the company at this year’s event....

Newly announced Happy Game looks to invite players in with a charming welcome, and keep them locked in with a bizarre blend of disturbing and chaotic visuals. One of the many reveals at today’s Nintendo Indie World showcase, Happy Game is a psychedelic horror adventure about a little boy having a terrible nightmare with the only way to escape being to dive deeper within. Developed by Amanita Design, Happy Game will have players navigate some creepy environments and solve puzzles while trying to escape the clutches of terrifying pink bunnies and smiley faces with terrible agendas....

Whenever the question of whether games can be art comes up, the titles cited by the “pro” faction are almost invariably Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Partially, this is because the games themselves occupy a completely unique tonal space – they feel like each other, and unlike practically any other games. Equally relevant is that both games sold so few copies when they were new that it can be tough to find someone on the “con” side of the argument who has played them....

When a game series finds a genre that works, it tends not to deviate too far outside of that bubble. It’s only when the franchise gets a few decades under its belt that there is even talk of potentially changing things up. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was such a shake-up – an isometric dungeon crawler that took familiar elements from the Tomb Raider series but packaged them into a Gauntlet-esque title....

While those who have read our full review of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 will know that the game falls short of fan expectations in several key ways, one area that does deserve praise is the combat. So, in order to better highlight what makes Lightning Returns’ combat unique and sets it apart from previous Final Fantasy titles, even those within the same FF 13 umbrella, we have put together the above gameplay video....

Sega has been in a funk with regards to their blue mascot and have been putting in extra hours to bang out the dents that the Sonic series has accumulated since it’s popularity started to wane after the 90s. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is one of Sega’s attempts to reinvent, or at the very least revitalize, the series. They decided to make the games episodic, in what might possibly just be a strategy to give themselves time to improve after each installment....