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If you want to know what it’s like to play Song of Horror, just look at its difficulty settings. There are three available to start: “E.T.A. Hoffmann,” “M.R. James,” and “Edgar Allan Poe.” Poe, listed third, is described as “the basic difficulty level for Song of Horror,” featuring permanent character deaths, while the less-challenging James […]

Oscar Wilde famously described art as being “quite useless,” by which he meant not that it’s pointless or without value but that it exists for no practical reason, save that the world is a little nicer for having it there. Great art makes us stop and reflect on how lucky we are to experience it—after […]

It's been more than 25 years since The 7th Guest first debuted, and while its age is evident to modern eyes now, it's hard to overstate how big an impact it made at the time. Subsequent adventure staples like full motion video, pre-rendered 3D graphics and CD-ROM storage were little more than pipe dreams before […]