Dead By Daylight fans are being asked what crossovers they’d like to see in the game from a list of suggestions including The Last of Us, Attack on Titan, and Metal Gear Solid. The Dead By Daylight Player Satisfaction Survey (opens in new tab) is asking players a series of …
Read More »Hostile Architecture: Resident Evils Spencer Mansion wants to kill you
I recently discovered that there’s more than one type of haunted house. The traditional kind is easily recognizable. It’s a regular house, only one that at some point became possessed by an evil entity. A lot of the time, this entity – ghost, demon, poltergeist, whatever it may be – …
Read More »The Last of Us 2 player discovers that Ellie can actually catch the first Stalker in the game
A The Last of Us 2 player has discovered that catching up with the first Stalker Ellie encounters is actually easier than it seems. In a clip shared to The Last of Us’ Subreddit (opens in new tab), one player chooses to chase after the Stalker, which is first encountered …
Read More »Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami on the making of a horror classic: “one by one staff would resign from the job”
Shinji Mikami is a very likeable guy who is not afraid to speak his mind. For a start, he says, the Resident Evil title is a “stupid” one. The Western title for his made-in-Japan horror epic is, he reckons, completely nonsensical. (Capcom America proposed the Anglicised term; Mikami had no …
Read More »Naughty Dog is hiring for a multiplayer game with live service elements
Naughty Dog is hiring for an upcoming multiplayer game with live service elements, according to a recent job listing for an economy designer. As spotted by GameSpot (opens in new tab), The Last of Us 2 studio is looking for someone who can “design, implement, and tune game economy and …
Read More »After a choppy launch, Friday the 13th: The Game is back on its feet and ready for a killer 2018
A short while before Friday the 13th: The Game (opens in new tab) was about to hold its beta in December 2016, the developers over at Illfonic faced an unusual predicament. The opening cutscene to every match, in which Jason introduces himself to a group of counselors in characteristically bloody …
Read More »Looking into our coffee cups for clues in Swery’s outstandingly bizarre Deadly Premonition
With David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (opens in new tab) making its comeback after more than 25 years, there’s no better time to look back at Deadly Premonition, the bizarre survival horror that owed more than its fair share to the classic early ‘90s TV series. Like Lynch’s show, it tells …
Read More »The best video game-themed board games you can buy
Kicking it analogue If you’re like me, video games don’t end when you set down the controller. Books, comics, movies, and more – I’m always looking for ways to work video games into my non-video game activities. And how do you get your fix when your console is on the …
Read More »7 movies that inspired Resident Evil 7 (and none of them are actually Resident Evil)
Resident Evil 7 (opens in new tab) is a revolutionary game. Gone are the Hollywood set-pieces, the action-heavy gameplay, the insta-fail button prompts and the steroid-pumped super soldiers capable of smashing rocks with their bare fists. Capcom stripped the franchise back to its roots making it a great place for …
Read More »The Big Question: Why is Resident Evil 7 such a successful reboot?
Resident Evil 7 (opens in new tab) is one of the most successful reboots in recent history, uniting the critics with a Metacritic rating of 85. The fact that this feels surprising, after the bombastic-but-boring Resident Evil 6 (opens in new tab), says everything about the decline of a series …
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