Fantasy Flight Games recently announced that the beginning of their 2011 Living Card Game (LCG) Regionals season is about ready to begin and are looking for retailers or tournament organizers to host their Regional Championship Tournaments.

The tournaments will be based on the three LCG games: Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game, Call of Cthulhu LCG and A Game of Thrones LCG. If you’re a player, you’ve got plenty of time to brush up on your game as the season runs from May 2 to June 13, 2011. Computer gaming is fun and all but it still can’t match playing face-to-face, actually meeting people and making friends.

What would happen if an evil spirit is raised from the dead and decides to turn everyone into zombies? Well, chaos of course. This is exactly what happens in Ninjas vs. Zombies.

One day, a modern sorcerer named Randal decides to resurrect his dead brother Eric, only to find out that he has come back evil and has the ability to steal souls, causing the people to become his zombie slaves. Randal receives aid from his father’s magic book, which tells him that the only thing that can kill the zombies and Eric are, of course, Ninjas. So now that he has turned his three best friends into ninjas, it’s up to them to save the world form the onslaught of zombie minions.

When it was announced that Majesco and Tiger Hill Entertainment were teaming up with renowned madman of horror Clive Barker, I waited on pins and needles until more news came out about it. We’re talking about the mind that Stephen King said was the future of horror before he even worked on his first movie, which was 1987′s Hellraiser. The game that he was to work on was Demonik and would’ve been released in 2006. It would have been for the Xbox 360. Would have..

If you love blood and gore, chances are that you’ve played the old Splatterhouse titles for the older consoles and have been eagerly awaiting the release of the newest installment coming to PS3 and Xbox 360. And considering what a person might actually want out of Splatterhouse, this newest one from Namco Bandai Games delivers. more »

The Wii is mainly known for its family friendly games, but the system has slowly been building up a small library of games that aren’t all-ages fare. There aren’t too many games with a “Mature” rating, or that fall into the horror, thriller and suspense genres, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any available for the system.

And no, I’m not referring to the plethora of Resident Evil games that have found a home on the Wii. There are other chilling games available for the system, if you take the time to look. Gamertell did, and has come up with five appropriate games if you have a Wii and want to be scared…

It’s been a really good year for games about really bad guys, according to data from everyone’s favorite industry pundit Michael Pachter.

According to the Wedbush Morgan securities analyst, horror-based video games account for more than $147 million in sales this year through September 2009. Horror games sales for all of 2008 totaled only $131 million.

Leading the pack was Resident Evil 5, the newest installment in the Capcom franchise credited with starting the “survival horror” genre. RE5 moved 1.94 million units according to data from market research firm The NPD Group. Pachter said that accounts for more than half of the horror genre sales to this point. That genre number is certain to grow November 17, 2009, when zombie sequel Left 4 Dead 2 hits shelves, along with Wii exclusive Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.

Here we are with Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil. The game is 13 years old, although only 7 years older than the Game Cube remake it more closely resembles. Sadly, Resident Evil is showing its age. Not in appearance, mind you—the game actually looks quite good—but in how it feels. How it moves around. And yet, it remains a “must-play” for fans of survivor/horror games.

Fear Clinic is one of the first series that will be exclusively online and will play exclusively on Fearnet.com sometime in October 2009. The show is directed by Robert Hall (Sarah Connor Chronicles, Laid to Rest) and includes horror greats Robert Englund and Kane Hodder (Freddy and Jason, respectively), co-stars Danielle Harris (Halloween remake) and newcomer Lucas Till, among others.

The show is about Dr. Andover (Englund) who claims to be able to cure any phobia by using his patented “fear chamber.” Several unsuspecting clients come to his clinic hoping to get cured. They realize however, the horrors that are in store for them. There are five episodes made so far, each dealing with a different phobia.

Gamertell was fortunate enough to sit at a roundtable interview with Hall and the actors to discuss this upcoming series.

Happy Halloween everyone! In honor of the spookiest holiday of the year and the fortunate (or is it misfortunate) coincidence that my column would land on this date, I decided that it would be a good day to honor some particularly spooky Japanese video games.

All of the games below have never been released in the US, so hopefully you’ll learn about something scary and new that would delight while possibly frightening you. Then tonight, go out and trick or treat, party, watch a spooky movie or play a spooky game in honor of the holiday. I’m having two wisdom teeth removed today, so I know I’m in for a fright…

I am a coward.

At sleepovers in my childhood, I’d close my eyes during particularly scary portions of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, I’m 25 years old and still can’t listen to Reagan’s “possessed” voice in The Exorcist and I only was able to watch about a half hour of the remake of The Omen. For a brief time after watching all of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, I would make a conscious decision to be in bed and asleep by 3am.

But I’d like to think I’m getting better, and its all because of Fatal Frame.

It all started around Halloween in 2002. I was in college, and taking a night Japanese class with my friends Shawna and Vivienne (not their real names). Often, when class would get out, we’d feel like actually doing something, rather than going home, studying and getting to bed. You know – productive stuff.

Shawna was, and still is, a horror game fan – and good at it too. She suggested we rent Fatal Frame from Blockbuster and return to Vivienne’s nearby home for a game-a-thon. Vivienne and I had never heard of the game, but Shawna made it sound interesting, so we instantly agreed. We figured it may help us get in the spirit of the season…