How do you go about remaking a game 20 years down the line? Your team has learned so much about game design in that time, so it would seem smart to modernize your game while staying true to the original. Obviously, you want it to invoke the same feelings the…

Sometimes, you need to look in the mirror and rethink everything. If you’ve strayed too far, you have to reevaluate yourself. Only you can know if you’re on the right path for your life or not. …

I’d have hated to be the next main game to release after Resident Evil 6. After 2012 brought us some positive reception (Revelations and Damnation) and an overwhelming wave of negative reception (Operation Raccoon City and Resident Evil 6), faith in the brand was at an all-time low. For a…

2012, I’ll never forget it… It was the year Resident Evil fans were inundated with Capcom’s ideology of Westernization. The company had been lagging behind in the industry a bit, and chose to push forward hard with the idea of chasing Western gaming trends. At the time, co-op was a…

I remember when Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D came out on the 3DS in 2011. It was during quite the software lull following the launch period, and I was hungry for something to play on my fancy new handheld. I was enamored by this wonderful little arcade action game, a…

So, Final Fantasy VII Remake. Pretty good game, right? The reveal at E3 2015 was astounding, with everyone absolutely flipping their lids that the meme finally existed. It felt like the entire world was hyped for it. The next year, to keep the Final Fantasy hype train going, Square Enix…

Perhaps you’ve heard of Resident Evil 4. It’s this little game that slid out quietly on to the Gamecube in 2005 before petering out and disappearing into obscurity forever. In this same bizarro world, Dino Crisis Village has recently been announced as the eighth main installment of that ludicrously successful…

Team and group-based activities in school were always my least favorite thing in the world. You would get one of two outcomes: either you buddy up with your friends, or you get stuck with a random assortment of your classmates. In my experience, that was code for “you’ll either spend…

Discussion of anything can turn highly contentious when the phrase “best ever” is thrown into the ring. It’s a spark that can ignite a hot debate, especially on the internet where filters are so often missing. Not only does it demand a stark agree/disagree dichotomy, but in turn it splinters…