Chalk Talk Assignment: The Horror... The Horror

Your assignment is to write up your editorial focusing on what makes a great horror game. Deadline to have your entries submitted is Thursday, February 28th by 2:00 pm PT.

As you may be aware, in 2013 we altered the format of Chalk Talk to include contributing editors, we are please to announce that we have our first volunteer for the second edition of Chalk Talk, GameSpotter Starshine_M2A2.

With the release of Dead Space 3 arguably pushing that franchise firmly into the action shooter territory Contributing Editor Starshine_M2A2 wishes to examine what makes a great horror game. Is it the slow tension of survival horror; the relentless throat grabbing of action horror like Dead Space 2 and F.E.A.R. or do games require a more psychological approach to truly be considered horror? Do games like Silent Hill and its continued focus on character disintegration highlight the need for characters as well as well as atmosphere?

You decide! Choose which games you wish to discuss in your feature as you build your case for what makes a great horror game.

Chalk Talk submission must include the following:
- Entries must be a minimum of 500 words.
- Do not use altered text fonts, colors, and be aware of your formatting.
- Select at least one image to act as your "cover shot".
- Entries must be submitted by Thursday, February 28th by 2:00 pm PT.

Here is mine- One day in Horror Land in Games

I'll try to think of something if I can find the time. Sounds like an interesting topic.

Mine is up. 

A great horror game stays under your skin

I'm not sure if this is quite what you were looking for, but here's mine. "The Problem With Horror" I guess it's more about what doesn't make a great horror game then what does.

got mine in - barely!

http://www.gamespot.com/users/pokecharm/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-26015661

A big thank you for those of you who took the time to submit your entry for this weeks Chalk Talk. We have a new assignmentready for those of you who are interested. And the feature should be up later this afternoon. Also, everyone should take a moment to say thank you to your contributing editor Starshine_M2A2.

A big thank you for those of you who took the time to submit your entry for this weeks Chalk Talk. We have a new assignmentready for those of you who are interested. And the feature should be up later this afternoon. Also, everyone should take a moment to say thank you to your contributing editor Starshine_M2A2.

 

Synthia

Thanks for putting this together Starshine!JodyR

Had a lot of fun doing it. I would love to be a features writer one day so please do let me know if there's anything else I can do!

In the meantime, I'll keep blogging my mini-dissertations!