This, friends, is the inspirational tale of an objectively terrible idea that only got worse ... until the finished product changed the world.

The scariest video game moments ever aren't in horror games.

We have unfortunately seen the horror lurking beneath the surface of your favorite video games, and now we pass the curse to you.

There's a line where a filmmaker goes from 'following the same formula' to 'remaking his own friggin' movie.'

If the purpose of a video game commercial is to deeply terrify your young fan base so profoundly that they wouldn't dare forget your product, the creators of the following doses of nightmare elixir succeeded brilliantly.

In the face of relentless pressure to keep coming up with new supervillains, publishers wound up greenlighting ideas that really should have screamed 'bad idea' at the doodle stage.

Developers go through the trouble of creating a frighteningly elaborate Easter egg knowing that only a select few will forever be changed by it..

These writers went out of their way to make these comics totally insane.

With all of reality available to warp and twist into whatever shape we like, some people prefer to use video games to do the most boring stuff possible.

Every respectable superhero must have a secret identity, because there's nothing more heroic than lying to everyone you know.