Jacob Heayes, Author at The Indiependent

Blue Screen Of Death: How The Desktop Reinvented Horror

Jacob Heayes February 12, 2021

Jacob Heayes traces how desktops, manipulated media and the internet have come to be the most potent tools in horror, from The Blair Witch Project to Host. Back in 1999, the horror world was irreversibly changed by the release of an unassuming film titled The Blair Witch Project. Reception at the time was frequently accompanied […]Read More

Game Review: Bugsnax

Jacob Heayes December 1, 2020

Released: November 2020 Rated: E10+ (Animated Blood, Crude Humour, Fantasy Violence, Suggestive Themes) Humble indie team Young Horses were not likely expecting to be the talk of the town after Sony’s initial unveiling of the PlayStation 5. After all, this was the world’s first taste of the next-generation gaming system, defined by a bucketload of marketing […]Read More