Posts By Alex Gilyadov

Horror is hard to pull off, for anyone, for everyone, and in any form of medium. It's hard to fill a film audience with dread, hard to write a narrative that'll keep its reader up at night, cringing at every word you read, intensely flipping over every page. That is why we never forget the movies that made us actually scared, or books that made us keep our lights on. The world won’t ever forget just how amazing the first Nightmare at Elm Street was, how ...

These past eight years has seen a great slew of changes in the video game industry. Whether it is the global domination of Call of Duty and Activision’s implementation of a one year release cycle, the integration of online, the creation of achievements and trophies, or the rise of casual gaming; this generation has changed the medium and its landscape in a multitude of ways. But there was one prominent trend that saddened me, and that is the lack of compelling ...