The first-person perspective can be a great boon in a huge range of games. It's very effective indeed at making the player feel more immersed in the experience. For example, first-person horror titles ...

Like Silent Hill f, we aren’t in the town in the game’s title for this adventure. Our new hero Simon Ordell instead finds himself on St. Amelia Island in Scotland. He isn’t exactly sure what’s going ...

Video game developers, designers, and scholars have devoted a substantial amount of time to understanding immersion—the psychological state in which players feel present within the game world—and ...

Annapurna Interactive’s Silent Hill game is coming out in 2026. Silent Hill: Townfall, a first-person horror game that acts as a brand-new original entry in the franchise, is officially launching in ...

Arc Raiders is a tense game at the best of times. While it can often be friendly, especially when playing solos, even that has moments of uncertainty as you wait with bated breath to see if the player ...

Resident Evil Requiem is unlike most Resident Evil games in that it can be played in two different perspectives. There is an option to play it with a third-person camera, as well as one that locks it ...

Dead Eyes, which premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival, marks the feature debut of Australian filmmaker Richard E. Williams. It’s an ambitious project that strives for originality, experimenting ...

If you’ve started Resident Evil Requiem and felt like Grace’s first-person camera was dragging through molasses, you aren’t alone. While Leon’s third-person perspective feels relatively snappy, ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...