NPR's Life Kit host Marielle Segarra speaks with Saleem Reshamwala, the host of "The Dread Project," about the meaning of dread and exercises to help manage it. We all have a list of things we dread ...

You might have noticed a rather odd and unnerving game played on Tabletop Season 3. Something like a roleplaying game, but with a rickety spire of wood instead of dice. It’s a two-part episode, cast ...

Dread is a horrifying tabletop role-playing game unique unto itself. Created by Epidiah Ravachol in 2005, it was made with the design assumption that role-playing games were simply too reliant on ...

Yoshio Sakamoto has been trying to make Metroid Dread for a long time. Sakamoto, who designed the original Metroid on NES, says he always intended for Dread to be the follow-up to Fusion — the most ...

Nintendo is billing the upcoming Metroid Dread as the end of a major saga for Samus. The Metroid storyline has continued through the decades, but with Dread, Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto says it ...

The Elder Scrolls Morrowind and classic Diablo are both obvious inspirations behind Dread Delusion, but the RPG from Lovely Hellplace is much more than a mere homage. Visually, this is the most ...

Retro game aesthetics have never really gone out of style, but there's always some disconnect between how old games actually were, and how they lodge themselves in our collective memory. As I made my ...

Dread Central has been going through a lot of change these past few months. We took a step back to look at our content and think about how it functions within the horror community. We want to support ...

During Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct, Metroid Dread fans got a nice surprise: The game will get a free update, to be released later on Wednesday. The update will include two new difficulty modes, one ...

Metroid Dread and Nintendo’s new Switch model, which boasts a larger, more vibrant OLED screen, seem made for each other — or at least, Nintendo’s latest Metroid game seems intended to showcase what ...