Now almost 15 years after the release of The Room, Tommy Wiseau is something of a star, complete with a verified Twitter account and a Golden Globe-nominated biopic. The next logical step is, of course, for him to take on the world of video games, which his cultural host-body James Franco has been kind enough to make…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
Shinji Mikami is video games’ most enduring horror icon—our Shelley, our Walpole, our Carpenter and Craven. Other developers use the man’s language like a pocket dictionary. Every time something jumps through a window, Mikami’s there, grinning and taking a long drag off a cigarette—got ya again. When some improbably…
Video game developers seem to love building bizarre, distinct cults and religious organizations into their games’ mythos, whether it’s the Church Of The Children Of Atom from Fallout, or Los Illuminados from Resident Evil. For this 6 Things, we’re looking at six of the weirdest cults in games.
In zombie stories, the person expressing concerns about the dangers of bringing dead things back to life is always proven right, but not until after countless people have been ripped apart by an undead horde. Milla Jovovich has spent over a decade fighting zombies in Resident Evil movies, so she could definitely…
Over the weekend, we reported that German production company Constantin Film was planning to reboot the Resident Evil movie series, with that news coming just a few months after the release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Now, Deadline has a few more details about that reboot, and it sounds like Constantin might…
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter literally just came out a few months ago, but deep in an underground lab beneath a needlessly complex mansion in the Arklay Mountains near the midwestern American town of Raccoon City, the malevolent Umbrella Corporation is already working on a plan to bring the Resident Evil series…
Welcome back to our in-depth Game In Progress review of Resident Evil 7. In this final installment, Gameological editor Matt Gerardi works his way through a derelict ship and reaches the end of this grueling nightmare. You can find every part of Matt’s review here.
For a horror series, Resident Evil can be oddly comforting. It’s true that the games ask you to explore dimly lit, curiously furnished structures overrun with hungry T-Virus, G-Virus, and C-Virus patients. And they do like to shake you up with jump scares, exploding mutant growths, creaky doors, and ugly paintings.…
Welcome back to our Game In Progress review of Resident Evil 7. In this second of three installments, Gameological editor Matt Gerardi recovers from a rough meeting with Marguerite Baker, pursues her asshole of a son, and meets up with an old friend for one final tango. Part three will pick up after the boss fight…
Though he doesn’t have the same clout as Hollywood’s other famous Paul Anderson, Paul W.S. Anderson has carved out his own impressive career, with films from the Mortal Kombat movie to Event Horizon to Alien Vs. Predator. But perhaps he’s best know for helming the persistent Resident Evil franchise, which just wrapped…
It’s a shame that the zombie-mowing, monster-bashing post-apocalyptic Resident Evil series should end on a bum note, with one of its weakest entries; whether taken as guilty pleasures or as termite art, these movies are the only good thing to have come out of the early 2000s craze for schlocky video-game adaptations.…
Welcome to our Game In Progress review of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Over the next two weeks, Gameological Editor Matt Gerardi will be playing through Capcom’s latest nightmare and checking in to comment on how the game is shaping up. This first entry covers the beginning of the game through the third boss fight…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
Dark, confusing times have come to America. Times of turmoil. Times when difficult choices must be made. Times when the latest entries in two surprisingly long-lived actress-centered undead-fighting action series—both due in theaters next January from the same fucking studio—can release new trailers on the same day,…
Resident Evil is back, and it looks like it loved P.T. just as much as everyone on the internet did. Announced last night at Sony’s E3 conference, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard will be played from a first-person perspective, meaning you’ll be taking in all the frights from the viewpoint of your character. That isn’t a…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
Best, Worst, Weirdest focuses on three installments of a long-running video game series to explore its strengths, its failings, and where it got lost.
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
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