The next acquisition on THQ Nordic’s plate? None other than Alone In The Dark, a video game series based on a highly successful Uwe Boll movie. I think, my memory is fuzzy on this one. Released all the way back in 1992, the original Alone In The Dark was a masterpiece of its time, utilising new 3D models in two dimensional environments to paint a picture of suspense and chills.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman: Arkham Knight, STASIS, Fallout 4. All fantastic games, that scored many tens of points with us and reviewers all across the world. But nobody cares about a success story. We’re here for the worst of 2015. So far at least. And this universe had a smelly yin to the superb yang that was on offer. Here’s some of the worst stuff that was pumped out this year.

Alone in the Dark: Illumination is looking less and less like it deserves the name of the revered horror survival franchise.

Atari are working on a new Alone in the Dark game called Illumination. They are aiming to have the game out sometime in November.

Atari is reviving two major horror franchises at the end of this year.

In a “blink and you’ll miss it” moment it turns out that Atari is now an American only brand and the European side of things has been cleanly wrapped up and shoved down the toilet. Why this has happened is utterly beyond me but the reaasons being given is that Namco Bandai has purchased Atari Europe and amalgamated it into …

While rattling through my archive of articles for Play Tech Magazine in search of samples to secure some freelance work, I came across our woefully unpublished Alone in the Dark: Inferno review for the PS3. It was meant to go into the February issue, and the highlight of the article was a little in-depth comparison we did between the original …