The most anticipated games of 2020. Part 2

In the first part of the most anticipated games of 2020, there were mainly projects that have a more or less exact release date. The second part contains games that are simpler in scale, but not in the expectations of the fans. There are also AAA releases here, but not everything is so simple with …

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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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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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All but Dishonored. What else has Arkane Studios developed?

Just a month before Deathloop’s scheduled May release, developer Arkane Studios revealed that it would not release the title until September 2021 at the earliest. The game has been in development for over four years, but fans of the studio will have to wait a little longer. It’s time to go through the history of …

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Pillars of control in video games or the history of D-Pad, WASD and computer mouse

No matter how wonderful and perfect a particular video game, the pleasure of playing it can be completely spoiled by poorly thought out controls. The gamepad or the combination of the keyboard and mouse in this case are important guides to a fantastic virtual world, which should never be underestimated. However, during the formation of …

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Development history of Dishonored

On September 15, Arkane Studios released Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, a standalone expansion pack for Dishonored 2. The game was received quite warmly, but with the correction that it never reached the level of its predecessors. In any case, according to feedback from players and critics, Arkane Studios has managed to create another worthy …

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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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