The Rise of the Survival Horror Genre

Without a doubt, Japan has played a pivotal role in shaping the “survival horror” in the gaming industry. It supplied and continues to supply, as a rule, the best representatives of this direction. As soon as Resident Evil entered the scene in 1996, many other genres began to borrow various elements from it, and it …

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Do not touch the classics or failed restarts of video game lines

The relaunch of God of War was successful, and some even consider the game to be the best representative of the series. Such a scenario can be considered the exception rather than the rule. Most often, instead of breathing new life into it, reboots finally bury the series, leaving an unpleasant aftertaste. Sometimes the developers, …

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The history of the origin of the Survival Horror genre

2017 turned out to be very rich in horror. In addition to the long-awaited Resident Evil 7 and Outlast 2, Friday the 13th: The Game was released on May 26th. And that’s not counting budding Kickstarter projects like Visage and Ghost Theory. It’s time to remember the history of the origin of the genre and …

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