Jason searches through the ruined temple in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
Jason searches through the ruined temple in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes takes horror under the desert

Supermassive Games took the wraps off its latest horror game, The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes. This is set underneath the deserts of Iraq in 2003, just after the end of the initial hostilities of the Iraq War.

It seems more like the setting for a military combat game, but soldiers from the U.S. Army and the forces of Iraq find that they’ve got bigger problems to deal with than human enemies.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.