The Psychology of Horror Games
In celebration of Halloween, let’s look at some of the psychology behind why people like scary video games.
The Psychology of Fear in Video Games
GamePro.com has published my article about the psychology of horror games, so if you didn’t catch it in the print magazine a while back you can now. IF YOU DARE. [UPDATE: Sorry, GamePro is kaput and the linked article is gone. Sorry!] I sent a moderately frightened Bobo the Quote Monkey to fetch something from…
The Psychology of Horror
If you can get your hands on the new issue of GamePro magazine (#267, December 2010 with Diablo 3 on the cover), check out my article on the psychology of horror. The timing with Halloween was better a week or so ago when the issue first came out. This is another one of those topics…