While there were certainly horror games in the PS1 era and before, the PS2 era is renowned for being the platform where horror games found their footing, developing massive audiences and sowing the ...

Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over ten years ago. She tends to enjoy musical theater, ...

Cold Fear had real-time setting elements that made it unique among other horror games of its time. Siren's sightjacking mechanic and eerie village setting make it an overlooked atmospheric gem.

There’s almost too much horror on offer nowadays that sometimes it’s nice to revisit the past and see the golden era of video games—where innovation, intrigue, and taking risks was at its peak. The ...

The PS2 was, for gamers at the time, a marvel of technology compared to its predecessors, and many studios created some masterpiece horror games that took advantage of the console’s new capabilities, ...

A PS2 horror game — one of the best PS2 horror games — is getting a new remake in 2026. The horror game in questions hails from 2003, and when it was released 22 years ago, it was only available on ...