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If you're a Survival Horror fan, or indeed a gamer in general, the Resident Evil series will no doubt be familiar to you; it started off by defining an entire genre and grew into a franchise. In ... more
When it comes to games we're often led to believe that more is always better – making an FPS? Well if you want people to really enjoy it you'd better have five locales to visit instead of four, o... more
When it comes to all the possible ways that people can express themselves creatively, and hope to succeed to a degree to be able to commercially benefit from that creativity, games probably are... more
Bosses. Can't live with 'em, can't have closure with genuinely satisfying gameplay segments without them. ...well, atleast that's what we generally tend to believe. And who could blame us for ... more
So I picked up a copy of Extermination a week or so ago, and was able to play through the game pretty quickly (in about four or fives hours), and that made me think about and then eventually do a... more
So last week I happened to pick up a copy of Extermination, an old PS2 title from the early days of the console, a survival horror game. This year I've been a lot more interested in trying to loo... more
What's the first game you remember playing? That you remember vividly? I played a lot of games as a kid, and I mean , pretty much all demos really because we didn't have any money. Some stu... more
So... there's this game that released this week, and err... it was kind of sucky... Like, really sucky. I am ofcourse speaking of: Panza's Creepy Lovehouse As an Aliens fans, and an AvP f... more
There's a noise. I stop and slowly, anxiously, look behind me. Nothing. The darkened passageway is empty. I'm alone. I relax my grip on the controller, letting my finger slide off the s... more
It's always been felt that games need a strong sense of identity to sell, especially mainstream ones, modern games tend to create that sense of identity themselves by creating characters and worl... more
Something that's seemed to dwell on my mind lately, returning from time to time, has been the subject of disability, disfigurement and disease in games, in particular the idea of losing a limb or... more
So recently I've been getting into a bit of old-school gaming and replaying some games I really haven't thought about much since I was about ten. As a kid I was pretty big into strategy games, FP... more
Hey you! Ever played a videogame before...? huh...? HUH...?! HUH....!?! Oh yeah, I bet you have. And I bet there were boobies and men with big muscles and everybody was white and you fa... more
When we think about Horror games, what do we think of? Maybe the first thing that comes to mind are examples of old-school survival horror – games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Forbidden Siren... more
Hello there, Do you like nerds? Well! If you said yes then you're in for a treat with this week's episode of Scary Granules (wait, what happened to last week?!) as it's all about the sour... more
What's the measure of value that we aspire to when it comes to a game's setting, backdrop or visual style? Do we think a game that is more grounded in reality makes for a 'better' game, if so, w... more
Lately I've been feeling as though my attitude towards gaming has changed. Not so much that I feel as though I want to stop playing games in general but enough to make me feel as though my gaming... more
http://youtu.be/m86CGG_EmWM Picture the scene - flowing fields of green, green, grass sweep before you, trees rustle in a light wind, a single blackbird perches on an old stone wall pecking at ... more
I find it immeasurably hard to write about Sweet Home, though I love the game and feel it's largely been overlooked by gaming culture I also know that in the past it has had a lot of attention fr... more
Mario always sounds so goddamn chipper all the time in his games, for no apparent reason. It bugs me, nobody's that happy - atleast not without medication. The only way I could really think ... more
...or just some words on a page that vaguely make sense! ;o So why do we still have exploding barrels in videogames? Anybody? Anybody know how exploding barrels found their way into videog... more
What makes good TV, films or games? Is it just about fantasy fulfillment, or is there more to it? Do we just look for the perfect or do we also look for the complicated, the difficult, the realis... more
A rare glimpse behind the scenes of where bosses come to learn their trade - I mean they must all learn it from somewhere, right? Somebody obviously must be teaching them all these convention... more
So lately I've been thinking a lot about the Fourth Wall in games and more specifically how that relates to how seriously games take themselves, after a desire to replay MGS4 caused me to think a... more
It's not often games buck the trend, there's a lot of money out there in being able to copycat or toe-the-line when it comes to the industry standards for a genre, and it's often easier to do t... more
A couple of days back I had some trouble with my internet: it suddenly cut out inexplicably. It turned out in the middle of switching providers our previous provider had shut us off before we'd e... more
There aren't many franchises I keep tabs on, in fact I can probably name them on a hand or two (mine or yours, doesn't really matter), there are fewer still series that I approach with anything... more
So I picked up a copy of Michigan: Report from Hell not too long back and started playing it at a fairly piecemeal rate and having completed it I wanted to put down a few thoughts on paper (ok... more
Horror games don't always do well, it's a hard genre to make work just right; unlike, say, racing games or action games where aesthetics and atmosphere are secondary to the mechanics horror is al... more
That is the question. Whether it tis... ok screw that, I won't bore you with a bad Shakespeare joke! XD But I thought I'd ask the question which seems to be getting more and more pertinent in g... more
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