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Handheld Devices Are Finally Doing Justice to Survival Horror

Playing survival horror on phones and tablets required players to sit in front of their largest televisions with all lights turned off. Pixelated images and screen-door resolutions couldn’t convey jump scares requiring impeccable atmosphere. With sound design and graphics lacking, players resigned themselves to playing less-scary versions of the games. They did so only when they wanted them on the go.

When Slots Get Scary

Asylums, body horror, psychological terror, and grotesque imagery have crept into slot design in a very deliberate way, and the results are both commercially successful and psychologically fascinating.