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Jan. 29, 2012, 11:33 p.m.

Charity: Music from the Splatterhouse

July 27, 2011, 2:50 p.m.

Lens of Truth - Head2Head: Splatterhouse Analysis

Dec. 2, 2010, 12:27 a.m.

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Nov. 21, 2010, 5:46 p.m.

Splatterhouse Virtual Starlet is Playboys December Centerfold

Nov. 18, 2010, 11:04 p.m.

An Exclusive Look at the Brutal Arsenal of Splatterhouse

Nov. 18, 2010, 5:57 p.m.

Classic Splatterhouse coming to your mobile phone

Oct. 29, 2010, 7:06 p.m.

It was the very first game in the US to ever carry a parental advisory warning. It was banned from all but the ballsiest arcades when it first came out in 1988. Splatterhouse is a legend for its breakthrough senseless gore, and now you'll be able to own it on your iPhone. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and cuddly inside?

Splatterhouse Released Date Revealed

Oct. 11, 2010, 10:15 p.m.

Pre-order Game Deals Round-up for Week of 9/26

Sept. 27, 2010, 2:13 a.m.

New Splatterhouse trailer plays on Splatterhouse nostalgia, but does such a thing actually exist?

Aug. 23, 2010, 10:34 a.m.

With this new trailer for its update to the aged schlock horror kill-'em-up, it seems that Namco is wholeheartedly trying to play the Street Fighter card. Capcom did itself a whole boatload of favours by marketing Street Fighters IV and Super Turbo HD towards the series' original '90s players, but to be honest, I'm not so sure that a similar tactic is going to work for Splatterhouse.

All the ingredients are there. Opening footage of the original game. Gratuitous use of its soundtrack. Edits that draw clear parallels between the 1988 original and the new one. But does anyone really care enough about Splatterhouse as a franchise for any of this to matter? Is this trailer massaging your memory cortex with sweet, warm nostalgia lotion, or, like me, are you just seeing a game pointlessly trying to prove that it's a bit like an old game that you'd happily forgotten about because it wasn't actually very good? Take a look and let me know.