Resident Evil

Resident Evil is the franchise on everybody’s lips. Gamers are preparing to buy the second entry in their millions, Capcom is pushing the genre forward with every new title and fans can’t wait to see what happens next. The year is 1998 – and the bubble is about to burst. The reaction to the first trailer for the second REmake has been almost universally positive, and rightly so. It was different, but in a way that embraced both the old…

Its Halloween again! I’m not sure if I mentioned this, I may have, but Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love candy, first of all, but I also love the spookiness of Halloween. I really like spooky movies, with vampires and werewolves and all that stuff. I do like some zombie stuff. I am a fan of The Walking Dead! Most of all, I just love this time of year. And I always find time to play some spooky game…

They say you shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, but I can’t help asking the following question. I keep seeing third party games being announced for the Nintendo Switch. I think its a great thing. I love that third party games are coming to the system. I hope we see more. That said, will the third party developers stick with the system? Will they bring more games? Nintendo fans have been down this road before. We have been…

With Halloween right around the corner, I’ve been looking at some spooky video games this month. One of my favorite spooky series is the Resident Evil franchise. I still remember playing the first Resident Evil and being blown away by it. Resident Evil was one of the reasons I bought a Playstation 1. It was also a reason I bought the Gamecube! Today, I want to talk about that first Resident Evil and also mention my favorite of the Resident…

Once A Upon A Time, Capcom was making exclusive Resident Evil games for a Nintendo system.  Capcom made Resident Evil and Resident Evil 0 just for the Gamecube. Then, they made Resident Evil 4. While 4 didn’t stay exclusive (it was on the PS2 also), the Gamecube version was definitely the best version between those two systems. That is until the Wii Edition came along. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition is the superior experience and now its returning via the…

The composer behind classic cult horror franchise Resident Evil is something of a legend in Japan. Sometimes called 'Japan's Beethoven,' Mamoru Samuragoch claimed to have written some of the most iconic music in gaming history - while completely deaf. He's accepted the praise for it for almost twenty years, until it's come out that he didn't actually write all of it, and he's probably not even deaf.