Bloodborne, a mass-market game featuring beast hunters hacking up werewolves and aliens with giant saws in the fictional city of Yharnam, may appear to have little in common with these famous works.

Picking the “best” bosses from Bloodborne and its incredible DLC, The Old Hunters, is a challenge in itself. Every player has that one encounter burned into their memory, the one that pushed ...

Everything in Bloodborne really does feel connected, and there's a focus to how every route that spins off from the city relates to it – it's always hanging over every area.

In the worst-case scenario, this would result in a remake that utterly butchers FromSoftware's original vision for Bloodborne, ruining the game's subtle, creeping journey from beast-strewn, ...

He’s the Healing Church’s first hunter, now mutated into a horse-like, multi-limbed eldritch horror thanks to his dangerous obsessions. Proudly wielding Yarnham’s version of FromSoft’s recurring ...

Bloodborne features perhaps the best of this particular style of boss with Father Gascoigne. If you just mindlessly strike at him, he will counter you with a gunshot and use a visceral attack for ...

Eldritch is particularly associated with weird fiction, including the works of the Cthulhu mythos, and video games are filled to the brim with weird and unnatural enemies. Related ...

Our columnist reviews September’s new horror releases. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor, and the author of “The Devil Takes You Home ...

Bloodborne is known for its gothic horror setting, intense combat, and richly detailed world filled with grotesque creatures and mysterious lore. Set in the dark streets of Yharnam, players battle ...

Jordan Peele’s “Nope” is one of the best horror movies of the 21st century, and the creature at the center—eventually known as Jean Jacket—is a modern update on the eldritch abomination.