Amnesia

Fans of Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, make sure to mark June 18 on your calendar. On that day, you'll be able to buy a copy of Still Wakes the Deep for the PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), the Xbox Series X|S and the PS5, though you can also play it with Game Pass for Xbox and PC. It's the latest first-person narrative horror game from The Chinese Room, the developer behind the aforementioned titles in the same genre.Just a warning if the title itself isn't clear enough:…

Recent research indicates that memory loss from repeated head impacts, common in athletes, may be reversible. The study, combining efforts from Georgetown University and Trinity College Dublin, shows that activating specific neurons can counteract amnesia in mice, paving the way for potential treatments to restore cognitive function in affected individuals. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA study conducted on mice, aimed at understanding memory decline in individuals subjected to recurrent head trauma, such as athletes, indicates…

A baby mobile above a cribImage: TobinCStudio (Shutterstock)A 2018 study, for instance, found that many people’s first memories likely never happened as remembered. Specifically, around 40% of people in the study recalled their first memory occurring before the age of two, while 15% recalled it before the age of one. But experts generally agree that our brains simply don’t form long-term memories before the age of three, at least ones that we can remember as adults.These implausible childhood memories, as the study…

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is easily one of my favorite horror games of all time. While a little dated now, I still recall the first time I encountered the Grunt, the slack-jawed monstrosity with the bloodcurdling wail. Such terror. So imagine my surprise when I saw that developer Frictional Games is launching a plush of the creature. “A face not even a mother can love,” goes the campaign slogan for the limited edition cuddly toy. A recent post on Steam invites you to recall your own experience of dread when you “heard…

Frictional’s Amnesia games are fueled by guilt, and Amnesia: The Bunker — the latest installment, released today — is no exception. The Bunker has all the hallmarks of the beloved horror series: a nigh-invincible monster that stalks the player, a clunky interface that forces you to grapple with items physically, a historical setting with a Lovecraftian twist, and a protagonist who has forgotten something terrible.But The Bunker is a marked departure from a long-established formula. Set in the trenches of World War I, it…

Though the horror genre has a rich history of using monsters as stand-ins for something truly horrifying, scary video games aren’t always so thematically ambitious. There’s a slew of zombie games, for instance, that trade in sharp social commentary for mindless shooting. That trend always leaves me looking for more cerebral horror games, ones that scratch the same itch as 2010’s psychologically unnerving Amnesia: The Dark Descent. So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that the first horror game that would accomplish…

There’s another delay but at least it’s short The upcoming horror game Amnesia The Bunker has bee delayed once again. In a social media video Friday, the game’s creative lead Fredrik Olsson confirmed that the title will now release on June 6. It’s just two weeks, but this comes only days before its initial release time on May 16. Olsson explained the reason why there’s an Amnesia The Bunker delay. Rare crashes plague Amnesia The Bunker As Amnesia The Bunker has been going through the certification process, Olsson…

Developer Frictional Games announced that its upcoming game Amnesia: The Bunker has been delayed by one week. The game will now launch on May 23, 2023."This will give us a little more time to polish the game and make sure everything is perfect before launch," reads a tweet from the developer as part of its announcement. This news comes after the game suffered a delay from March to May of this year, following its initial reveal in December 2022. You need a javascript enabled…

Survival-horror games that allow me to fight back against whatever is trying to kill me are my jam. I like to exert a certain amount of control over my environment when trapped in frightful situations--it's how I cope. I don't dislike horror games where the main threat is an unkillable monster you just have to run away from. I'm just usually paralyzed with indecision and fear and wish I were literally anywhere else when trying to play them.It made checking out Amnesia: The Bunker at GDC particularly…

Frictional Games is working on a new “SOMA-style” title alongside Amnesia: The Bunker. Originally released by the studio in 2015, SOMA is a sci-fi horror game “set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean”. Players were tasked with surviving the sort of “hostile world” that would make them “question their very existence.” Since then though, Frictional Games has been focused on the long-running Amnesia series, with The Bunker due for release later this year, following on 2020’s Amnesia: Rebirth. However in a new interview…