Posts tagged rise-of-nightmares 
Best of the Rest: Richard's picks of 2011
Rayman Origins If you asked what my favorite game of the 2011 was, I would tell you it was Dark Souls, which made the number eight slot in our prestigious top ten. If, however, you asked me which game instilled me with the most pure, unbridled joy, I would say it was Rayman Origins without a mo...
Xbox Live scares up Rise of Nightmares demo
Now is your chance to get your hands on a demo for Rise of Nightmares, one of 2011's most ambitious Kinect titles. Well, you won't really get your hands on it, what with the Kinect and all. You get the point....
Sega game sales down in first half of fiscal 2012; Rise of Nightmares fails to hit the heights
The net sales for Sega Sammy's consumer division were down 13.7% year over year in the six months ended September 30. Sega brought in 33.4 million yen ($428,655) from its home game business, part of the 152.6 million yen in overall net sales. The 29.9% slump in company-wide net sales is mostly...
Spooky Savings: Amazon's 'Un-BOO-lievable' Halloween sale
Autumnal consumerism is usually linked with holidays based around turkeys and/or trees, but that hasn't stopped Amazon from conjuring up some scary-good deals to celebrate All Hallow's Eve. The available gambit of creepy-eepy savings is fairly all-inclusive, ranging from Halloweenish gore-fest...
Rise of Nightmares graphic novel tells the story of Roland Childs
While we certainly found the Kinect-fueled experience of Rise of Nightmares to be novel, we never expected it would spawn an actual novel. We're talking about the graphic variety, as Sega has just announced and released Rise of Nightmares: The Lost Tapes of Roland Childs. The novel tells the s...
Rise of Nightmares review: A novel experiment
My wife is missing, abducted by a stereotypically mad scientist. I search for her, wandering the corridors of a stereotypically spooky castle. Ahead, a gaggle of biomechanical zombies. No problem, I've been dealing with them all night. They're not invincible, and those garden shears over there lo...
'No perky aerobics instructors' here, just Rise of Nightmares
It's played for laughs, but this Rise of Nightmares trailer has all the makings of a modern horror movie: an undead monster breaks into a couple's home and forces them to play a diabolical game. He then stands by and revels in the ensuing brutality, like a true villain ... while extolling the f...
Rise of Nightmares preview: Less fear, more tension
Can a Kinect game be scary? "Kinect is a full-bodied experience, so there is an immersion to it. Part of a horror game is feeling like you're in it," producer Satoshi Ito told me when I asked him that very question, via translator Sam Mullen. "On top of that, Kinect works in the dark -- you ca...
Rise of Nightmares trailer goes on a European vacation
It's possible to be too good at marketing. Today's example of this incontrovertible, long-standing axiom that we just made up is Sega's mature Kinect game, Rise of Nightmares. Between the brutal "Red Band" trailer and the above "Euro Vacation" ad, we're kinda dreading the release day ...
Rise of Nightmares unleashes 'Red Band' trailer
We normally breeze right past age gates (we're grown folks, after all) but we wish we'd taken the one before this new Rise of Nightmares trailer a bit more seriously. It's ... lighthearted, but there's some stuff in there we certainly wouldn't mind if we could unsee. Oh Kinect, what hast thou wro...
