From eerie soundscapes to disorienting level design, horror games use psychological tricks to keep players on edge. Developers blend atmosphere, mechanics, and narrative to create fear that lingers ...

Games have always been a kind of magic trick, just one built out of code instead of cards. What you see on screen feels immediate and reactive, yet behind the curtain sits a carefully orchestrated ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...