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How Horror Films Shaped The Scariest Games

Long before jump scares became a genre staple in their own right, filmmakers were perfecting the art of slow-building tension, and game developers took note.

How Horror Films Shaped The Scariest Games

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Long before jump scares became a genre staple in their own right, filmmakers were perfecting the art of slow-building tension, and game developers took note.

Horror cinema and gaming have long enjoyed a shared appetite for dread.

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Long before jump scares became a genre staple in their own right, filmmakers were perfecting the art of slow-building tension, and game developers took note. Horror cinema and gaming have long enjoyed a shared appetite for dread.

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Horror cinema and gaming have long enjoyed a shared appetite for dread.

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