2012 is the year of survival horror games, no doubt about it.

The long-awaited AMY was recently released (to a bit of a tepid reception), March will see the release of no less than three Silent Hill games, and then in late November, Resident Evil 6 will hit.

Horror or survival horror? Call it what you want but when a behemoth of a monster is barrelling towards you intent on crushing your skull with its reaching tendrils, you’re going to grip the controller very tightly, irrespective of genre!

So here’s a Question of the Day for you:

Do you enjoy horror games?

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I am not a big fan of scary games. I have played my fair share to know that the cerebral function of self-preservation does not require poop in my pants. In fact, it functions much better without. I do enjoy good games, however, be they scary or not. For that reason I loved Dead Space and Alan Wake with the same passion as other, less scary games such as The Sims 3. OK, that’s a bad example. Some of my Sims are scary as hell!

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of AMY.

Two new Xbox LIVE Arcade games are now available over Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and as usual for a new selection of XBLA titles, they couldn’t be more different than one another, with one taking the form of a creepy horror game, and the other materialising as a frantic helicopter action game.

If you can draw similarities between AMY and Choplifter HD, then you’re very clever indeed.

While your mind does a few backflips, find out about these titles with trailers, screenshots, official information and pricing details:

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