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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Checkpoint Magazine Issue 24: Horror.
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Steve Boxer Editor-At-Large
TAP TO PL AY AUDIO WELCOME to the latest issue of Checkpoint Magazine. Be afraid: this issue’s theme is Horror Games. Fear is perhaps the most primal of human e...
RESIDENT EVIL: THE COLOSSUS OF SURVIVAL-HORROR
WHEN Resident Evil was released for the original PlayStation in 1996, it was an instant success that was well received by gamers and garnered glowing reviews. But at the time –unaware of Capc...
Dead Space: the peak of horror game per fection?
HORROR is a hard thing to get right. When one considers the books, films, television series and games offered up in the name of this genre… well, it’s hard to get excited. The storytellers in...
The true horror of the mundane
HORROR games are great. But for me, the real horror experiences I derive from playing videogames – those spine-chilling, heartbeatinterfering moments – come from a different, less obvious sou...
FRIENDS WHO SCARE TOGETHER STAY TOGETHER
MANY moons ago I had a job at Blockbuster (RIP) and aside from mocking customers who had the temerity to ask if we had Grease 2 (I apologise for dissing your choice in really awful se...