Mass Effect Legendary Edition Preview

Mass Effect is a great fantasy adventure and a landmark in the gaming industry. This is a successful combination of role-playing game and third-person shooter. The pinnacle of the creative potential of the BioWare studio, after which the developers have seen a certain decline. After the news about the development of the remastered version, we …

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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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Shinji Mikami and his thirty years of fear

Immediately after the April release of Resident Evil 3, it became known that Capcom was developing a remake of the fourth part of the series, the company’s most successful game. At the same time, despite the success of all past remakes, many players spoke out against the restart of Resident Evil 4, which the original …

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Controversial advertising campaigns in support of video games

As you know, sometimes no less effort and money is spent on marketing in the gaming industry than on the development of a particular video game. Another thing is if the series has already earned a solid reputation, and players are ready to run to the store for a new part without being reminded. In …

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The most anticipated games of 2021. Part 2

Here comes the second ten of our most anticipated games of 2021. It has many interesting non-AAA options, but we hope all of them will become hits and delight gamers with dozens of hours of playthrough. Not without high-profile releases, console exclusives and unusual long-term construction. In addition, most games do not have an …

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Resident Evil Village review. Attraction of horror

Resident Evil Village Developer Capcom Publisher Capcom Official site residentevil.com release date May 7, 2021 Genre Survival horror, FPS After two remakes in the Resident Evil series at once, Capcom released a sequel to the seventh part and called it Village. It was clear from the trailers, and the developers did not deny that …

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Games that survived “Production Hell”

In the gaming industry, there is such a thing as “production hell” (Development hell). Most often it is applied to those games whose development dragged on for many years or was so intense that it is remembered as a nightmare. 2016 turned out to be very rich in announcements and releases of just such industry …

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When one game is not enough. The most unusual collectible editions of video games

As a rule, for most players, collector’s editions of their favorite titles cause great curiosity, but not at all the desire to spend a few extra hundred dollars. Developers understand this, and primarily use such releases as additional advertising. The more interesting the contents of special editions, the more attention from the players to the …

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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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The most anticipated games of 2021. Part 1

Crazy 2020 is behind us, and ahead is hope for the best and a solid pack of games. We have been waiting for some of them for a long time, so some of the projects were on our last year’s list, others are just announced, but they should be released this year. We have collected …

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