Horror fans are enjoying a feast of fantastic, terrifying games

polygon.com:

It’s a golden era for horror games. During Sony’s June State of Play presentation, fans learned that two highly anticipated games would be coming out within a four-month window: Resident Evil 4 and The Callisto Protocol. Earlier in May, Electronic Arts announced that a remake of Dead Space would also be released in that window. All of these games draw from the genre’s rich history; two are remakes, and The Callisto Protocol is made by some of the original team behind the first Dead Space. All three of these games are big-budget experiences that look genuinely terrifying, and it’s a great sign for a genre that hasn’t always gotten the attention and love it deserves — even as incredible indie games keep pushing the genre forward.

Of these forthcoming AAA horror games, The Callisto Protocolis due first, with a release date in December 2022. From the trailer alone, the game looks terrifying, with stark environments and interesting weapons, like a gravity gun called the Grip. Prisoner Jacob Lee is trapped in moon prison, and he’s now locked in with a bunch of humanoid-looking monsters called the biophage that bring Dead Space’s Necromorphs to mind. The game was originally planned to take place in the PUBG universe, but it’s since been reworked to be an entirely original story.

Dead Space arrives soon after in January 2023, and it looks like an upscaled and more detailed version of the original horror classic. Isaac Clarke is a ship systems engineer responding to a distress signal on the USG Ishimura. Unfortunately, the ship is now full of dead people and murderous Necromorphs, so Isaac needs to repurpose his industrial weaponry to sever their limbs and try and survive. The game is infamous for its scares, rounded out by some