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Guillermo del Toro Is a Call of Duty Fan

Guillermo del Toro, best known for his work on movies like Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, has said that when it comes to playing video games his biggest love is the Call of Duty fans and that he gets the games as soon as possible and plays them to completion. Guillermo del Toro, who is very well known as a dire...

1 September 2011
17:51 GMT

Resident Evil 6 Brings Full Franchise Reboot

Capcom's Resident Evil franchise will be completely overhauled with the introduction of the next game, Resident Evil 6, at least according to Capcom producer Masachika Kawata, who talked about the next title. Capcom has been releasing a hefty amount of details about its Resident Evil franchise, which is set t...

22 April 2011
14:51 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary - The Memorable Locations of the Game

Dead Space 2 is available for three weeks now, and plenty of people are extremely pleased with the thrilling horror experience delivered, even if a few inconsistencies are present here and there. In between fighting the evil monsters through the confined corridors of the Sprawl space station, main protagonist Isaa...

7 February 2011
09:15 GMT

Dead Space 2 Diary - The Many Shades of Horror

Dead Space 2 has just been released and already fans of the survival horror genre have flocked to purchase the new iteration in Visceral Games' franchise. We've already talked about how the studio gave a voice to protagonist Isaac Clarke and how many of its environments are severely limiting the choice o...

3 February 2011
08:40 GMT

Dead Space 2 Dated at EA's E3 2010 Press Briefing

Dead Space 2 was one of the titles presented at Electronic Arts' press conference earlier today, where a gameplay video was shown and a release date was announced. The survival horror action game will be launched on the 25th of January in North America and on the 28th of January in Europe on the Xbox 360, the Pl...

15 June 2010
06:28 GMT

Alan Won't Be Waking Up on the PC Anymore

Mystery and controversy are always a good thing about a survival horror, and so are shocking announcements and tragedy, but this time some might say that Microsoft went a bit too far. After being announced five years ago as a PC game, as well as an Xbox 360 one, Microsoft, the Alan Wake's publisher, has announce...

15 February 2010
03:51 GMT

Ubisoft's I Am Alive Gets Cut Off at the Knees

I Am Alive is one of Ubisoft's upcoming games, a new IP with an interesting concept and even more interesting gameplay mechanics. A Jade Raymond project, at first developed by Darkwoods, and now in the hands of Ubisoft Shanghai, it was first revealed at E3 2008, and received a spring 2009 release date that it ob...

18 January 2010
03:52 GMT

Dead Space 2 Won't Be a Rushed Project

When Dead Space honored out gaming rigs, be they PCs or consoles, players got a chance to experience something that very few titles could deliver, and the ones that do are far between in their releases. Dead Space gave them the chance to feel cold sweat pouring down their spines and killed them simply because their h...

7 January 2010
03:27 GMT

Dead Space 2 Details Are Talked Over

Gaming pieces of news are starting to become more and more of a wide-access domain and, with producers and developers posting the latest, updates and interviews on Tweeter and even Facebook, the road information takes to reach us becomes shorter and shorter. As such, Dead Space 2 had quite a bit of details talked ove...

17 December 2009
08:06 GMT

Left 4 Dead 2 Special Co-Op Has 16 Survivors Mow Down the Infected

Left 4 Dead 2 is barely out the door and we've already seen the game receive some official, as well as some unofficial, new content. The official support from Valve is represented by the title's first patch that comes to fix several of the multiplayer issues it proved to have, while the modding community ha...

24 November 2009
15:31 GMT

It Seems Like Dead Space 2 Will Support Multiplayer

If there is one thing, not that there is just one, but the one big thing that survival horrors can't do, that is online multiplayer. A co-op might work, it's close enough to the spirit of the genre and it's also a plausible concept. But full-out online multiplayer is a bit of a stretch as far as the co...

16 November 2009
07:16 GMT

Deadly Premonition, a New Survival Horror for the Xbox 360

After working together on Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia, Ignition and Marvelous Entertainment, the two publishers, are now teaming up to bring us a survival horror. Deadly Premonition is a third-person horror developed by Access Games for the Xbox 360. Very pleased with the two publishers and their ...

11 November 2009
03:16 GMT

Resident Evil: Afterlife Plot Revealed

We already know that another Resident Evil movie is coming and that Milla Jovovich would be reprising her role as Alice while her husband Paul W.S. Anderson will continue with his duties as director of the feature. But until now, no details have been released related to the plot of the movie.The official synopsis of ...

12 October 2009
07:42 GMT

Left 4 Dead 2 Receives a Huge Publicity Campaign

All blockbuster games nowadays have gigantic budgets, worthy of a Hollywood counterpart, but most of it is kept as low-profile information. It's not a secret and it's not hidden in any way, it's more that nobody really wants to share just how much money they spent on making the game if it turns out to ...

6 October 2009
05:35 GMT

Original Silent Hill Re-Imagined for the Nintendo Wii

The original Silent Hill was quite an innovative title, basically establishing the genre of survival horror videogames. It played on the emotions of the gamers and those of the main characters while offering a game that was scary, tough and exhilarating to complete.Now, it seems that Konami is set to revive the title...

2 April 2009
18:41 GMT

Resident Evil 5 and Star Ocean Bundles for the Xbox 360

Microsoft is sending word that it plans to introduce two limited time bundles of its Xbox 360 gaming console, especially for the Japanese market. In Japan, the Microsoft made device has mostly trailed the Sony made PlayStation 3 in sales, even after the recent price reduction, and the bundles could be a way of genera...

8 January 2009
02:06 GMT

Call of Duty 5: World at War Is Detailed

Treyarch has a bad reputation. And some of it might be deserved, because Big Red One was not worthy of being a Call of Duty game. But as it is developing the next game in the franchise, there might be a chance that the fifth title in the series will redeem them in the eyes of gamers.We have already told you that the ...

25 June 2008
19:06 GMT

Penumbra: Black Plague Gets Expansion

Paradox Interactive, as publisher, and Frictional Games, as developer, have announced that this summer the expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague would be on PC. Given the way the story in the game seems to have been planned by Frictional Games, this could be the third one in the series and it could wrap up the story.P...

17 April 2008
18:26 GMT

Infogrames to Become Atari?

Atari and Infogrames are locked in a very complex relationship with an offer for all outstanding shares of Atari by Infogrames going on at the same time as the North American company is assaulted by financial problems which might force it out of the NASDAQ. But for David Gardner, now the Chief Executive Officer at In...

14 April 2008
19:21 GMT

Alone in the Dark Will Make Infogrames Stop Bleeding Money

David Gardner, who was recently appointed to the top position at Infogrames, the French based company that now own most of the Atari intellectual property and name, has recently come clean on his expectations regarding the upcoming title Alone in the Dark. He said: "We want to stop losing money ... This management�...

11 April 2008
14:06 GMT

Silent Hill 5, Not for Wii Fans According to Akira Yamaoka

Akira Yamaoka, Konami's brilliant composer has recently expressed his opinion on the appeal of the Silent Hill titles for the average Nintendo Wii fans. In an interview with Wired, the chief composer who created the scores I listen to every day when I'm trying to find the inspiration for my reviews, has sh...

22 October 2007
06:45 GMT

Silent Hill Origins

Silent Hill or Resident Evil? This has been one of the questions that tormented most of the gaming journalists who had to pick one series or the other in order to give it the proper awards for being the best title pertaining to the horror survival genre. Personally, I'm a Silent Hill die-hard fan, mostly becaus...

30 August 2007
10:53 GMT


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