The Chinese Room

This could be a scene from a Japanese horror film, except it looks like a scene from an old adventure game. It's painted in two colours, one a kind of brown for the environment, and one in purple showing a hunched over girl holding the end of a bed, hair obscuring her face. She is out to get you.

Feature

The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?

Jump. Stare.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

Life By You artwork showing two couples looking into the sunset

Feature

Paradox must refocus to rebuild trust and survive, bosses say, after Life By You cancellation

"Release high quality games, because winner takes all."

Oct. 8, 2024 Ed Nightingale

An image from Bloodlines 2's announcement trailer showing a dark-eyed vampire smiling malevolently into the camera.

News

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 continues Paradox's delay streak, now launching next year

To "prioritise polish".

Aug. 20, 2024 Matt Wales

Lucy in her Vault Dweller ensemble and Maximus in his Power Armour in Amazon's Fallout adaptation

Feature

What we've been playing - oil rigs, court cases, and great adaptations

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 26, 2024 Robert Purchese

A very colourful, 80s cartoon-like piece of artwork for the game Anger Foot. It shows the game's main character on the left hand side of the screen, leaping into a group of enemies on the right hand side, foot first.

Feature

What we've been playing - door kicking, cursed oil rigs, and surprisingly still-powerful old games

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

An angry bald man eating a delicious looking fry up on a oil rig

Video

Would Still Wakes The Deep be better without the monsters?

Oil be damned.

June 20, 2024 Ian Higton

Football players in red celebrating in EA Sports FC 24

News

EA Sports FC 24 leads next wave of Xbox and PC Game Pass games for June

Still Wakes the Deep! SteamWorld Dig!

June 18, 2024 Ed Nightingale

Review

Still Wakes the Deep review - astonishing artistry can't quite keep this oil rig horror afloat

Not all is as it seas.

June 17, 2024 Matt Wales

News

Xbox Game Pass June titles announced

Octopath! Callisto! Still Wakes the Deep!

June 6, 2024 Tom Phillips

Still Wakes the Deep official screenshot showing a semi-flooded corridor inside the rig

Preview

Still Wakes the Deep mixes perfect horror timing with an environment that was already terrifying

The Chinese Room returns with the world's most atmospheric oil rig.

June 3, 2024 Christian Donlan

A head and shoulders cinematic screenshot of a white-haired vampire elf throwing their head back with a look of strong emotion. The top of their bare chest is visible, as are the fangs in their mouth. It's Astarion, and he's speckled with blood.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Vampires

Nights in amoré.

May 23, 2024 Robert Purchese

Nightscape showing a boat sailing on a river under a sky of stars.

News

Xbox showcases four indie games backed by ID@Xbox

Botany! Jump Ship! Nightscape! Deep!

April 2, 2024 Tom Phillips

A twisted metal walkway is illuminated by supernatural orange light in this screenshot from Still Wakes the Deep.

News

Oil rig horror Still Wakes the Deep gets release date

Everybody's gone to the rupture.

March 21, 2024 Tom Phillips

A screenshot of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 showing a female version of the game's playable protagonist.

News

Here's 15 minutes of The Chinese Room's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

Coming to PC, PS5, and Series X/S this "fall".

Jan. 31, 2024 Matt Wales

News

The Chinese Room outlines Bloodlines 2's "visceral immersive combat"

With first gameplay trailer due next week.

Jan. 26, 2024 Matt Wales

Montage of images from four games: Animal Well, Star Wars Dark Forces remaster, Harold Halibut, and FF7, behind the number 2024

Feature

The most exciting games of 2024

Year we go.

Jan. 4, 2024 Christian Donlan

Still Wakes The Deep artwork of a helicopter flying towards the oil rig at night, its search beam shining on the dark waves.

Interview

Under the surface of Still Wakes The Deep

Inside The Chinese Room, as it enters a fresh era.

Nov. 16, 2023 Tom Phillips

News

Here's everything featured in the Xbox Partner Preview showcase

Spooky oil rigs! Haunted granny! More!

Oct. 25, 2023 Matt Wales

Still Wakes the Deep artwork showing a bright, malevolent light streaming in from behind a door, as seen from inside an ordinary looking room festooned with party trimmings.

News

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture studio's oil rig horror Still Wakes the Deep debuts gameplay

Coming to PC and consoles "early" next year.

Oct. 25, 2023 Matt Wales

ampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is Back

News

The Chinese Room is developing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Fangtastic.

Sept. 3, 2023 Vikki Blake

News

The Chinese Room reveals how Still Wakes the Deep's environment will evolve

Rig Bang Theory.

Aug. 27, 2023 Vikki Blake

Feature

Five of the Best: Cheat Codes

God.

July 13, 2020 Robert Purchese

Opinion

When Is a Game Not a Game?

Why imposing a definition can prove problematic.

March 10, 2012 Rich Stanton