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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1998 in the gaming industry

In January, the long-awaited remake of Resident Evil 2 is finally coming out, which, apparently, is going to return the series to its trademark measured pace and feel of horror, rather than action-adventure. The original game was released back in 1998, and was a great addition to the genre, which fans of the series are …

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1997 in the gaming industry

It was in 1997 that the Nintendo 64 reached Europe and Australia, and Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey and Robert Fermier founded the legendary Irrational Games studio, which in the future will give us such masterpieces as System Shock 2 and Bioshock. On top of that, 1997 was another year filled with high-profile releases that won …

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History of the Devil May Cry series

After not the most successful restart of the series in 2013, the fifth part of Devil May Cry was released on March 8, 2019. In a way, Capcom did something with its lineup that Silent Hill fans never expected from Konami. Having tried to become part of the foreign mainstream, Capcom nevertheless decided to return …

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Modern horror inspired by famous horror films

In the 1970s, the film industry began releasing horror films in batches, and slasher lines such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th brought huge money to film companies. Naturally, the emerging gaming industry at that time could not ignore such a trend, and players soon received the first primitive horror …

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The most expensive video games on Kickstarter

As you know, the space simulator Star Citizen is not only one of the most prominent examples of long-term construction of the game, but also holds the record for the amount of funds raised through crowdfunding. While game designer Chris Roberts has received a record $250 million from various sources over the course of eight …

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Development history of Silent Hill

While Silent Hill has long been a cult staple of the survival horror genre, Konami has been failing to regain the respect and popularity of the line since 2004. Since 2012, the series has not shown signs of life, unless, of course, you count Konami’s short-lived collaboration with Hideo Kojima as part of a potential …

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