05 | Why scary games are so darn fun
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What compels us to sit in a dark room, boot up a game about zombies and cults and killers, and scare ourselves silly? How do these games tap into our lizard brain to get the adrenalin pumping? We put a giant wimp (Angharad Yeo) and a glutton for fear (Susan Arendt) together to figure it out, and the results are frightening.
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