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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Blumhouse of the gaming industry or the history of Bloober Team

Polish studio-developer Bloober Team prefers to attribute their latest titles to their own genre – “hidden horror”. By this term, Bloober refers to the horror sub-genre, which is much more focused on emotion and psychology, while most horror is focused on the “survival” prefix. According to the developers, the main goal of their games is …

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Development history of Outlast

One of the main announcements of the June presentation of the PlayStation 5 was The Outlast Trials, the next title from the Canadian studio Red Barrels. Previously, the developers talked about their intention to release Outlast 3 immediately after the success of the second part, but then decided to diversify the series of numbered titles …

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Lone wolves of the gaming industry

Ever since indie games have made their way to Steam, XBLA, and the recently shut down Greenlight, it’s no longer surprising to hear that only two or three people are behind a game. But no matter how accessible and intuitive game design tools become, titles made by one single person still lead to bewilderment. Their …

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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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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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Who is Tom Clancy or video games inspired by books

It’s safe to say that most gamers are aware that series like The Witcher, Metro, and STALKER were inspired by literary works. In fact, there are many more such examples in the industry than it might seem at first glance. Below we will talk about some of them. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (1998) Seeing the prefix …

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Review of Layers of Fear 2. Pretentious emptiness

Layers of Fear 2 Developer Bloober Team Publisher Gun Media Official site layersoffear2.com release date May 2019 Genre Adventure game, horror The Bloober Team studio has already established itself as a team with an extraordinary look at story-driven narrative games, pushing the boundaries of perception of “walking simulators”. The best example of their work is …

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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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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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