Image: Max Payne 2 As video games get more expensive to make, and publishers grow ever more adverse to taking risks with that expenditure, the last few years have seen a growing trend of old video games being made new once more. I’m not talking about a direct port to let people play an old …
Image: Sony / Ubisoft / Sega/ Bethesda / Kotaku If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you’ve most likely noticed that there are a lot of video game TV shows in the works. In fact, it can sometimes feel like we can’t go more than a week or two without another story or …
Image: Capcom / MobyGames / Project Starlight / Kotaku Not to be outdone by its more respected siblings, the handheld Resident Evil Gaiden is being remade by a group of independent developers. Project Starlight, as the unofficial survival horror game is currently known, upgrades Resident Evil Gaiden (released on the Game Boy Color in 2001) …
Resident Evil 4 is a landmark for gameplay, not storytelling. Screenshot: Capcom/Steam For a while now, there have been persistent rumors that Capcom is remaking Resident Evil 4. The Osaka-based game company has already remade other RE games, so it doesn’t seem that far-fetched. Given the fan-made Resident Evil 4 HD mod looks excellent, a …
Image: Capcom / RE4 HD Project Resident Evil 4, inarguably one of the greatest games of all time, is now playable with full high-definition textures, enhanced 3D models, and revamped lighting courtesy of the Resident Evil 4 HD Project. Almost eight years in the making, Resident Evil 4 HD Project was a massive undertaking that …
2019’s Resident Evil 2 remake was fantastic, blending the third-person action and combat from Resident 4, with the scares and visuals of Resident Evil 7. But now, thanks to an impressive-looking fan mod, you can revisit this survival horror glow-up in virtual reality, which sounds both exciting and very scary. As first spotted by UploadVR …
Basically what the CTA Red line is like after quitting time. Boarding a city subway is always a dice roll for whatever terror awaits you once the train doors close. Maybe there’s some trash taking up a seat, or annoying passengers who are hell bent on making their business yours. The new psychological horror game, …
Image: EA / FOX / Capcom / Kotaku A good scary game is often a thrilling experience. And if you are currently a Game Pass subscriber and in the mood to play something terrifying, creepy, or just downright spooky you already have access to some fantastic horror games for no additional cost. This is nice, …
Screenshot: Alone in the Dark I am scared of many things in video games. Sharks mostly, but there’s other stuff. Nothing has ever scared me, though, as much as 1992’s Alone in the Dark. Infogrames’ classic is one of the most important horror games ever made. Everything from Silent Hill to Resident Evil owes a …
Already one big nope. Screenshot: Puppet Combo / Kotaku What’s more frightening: a near-photorealistic video game killer pursuing you with perfectly motion-captured movements, or a silent, meathook-wielding Easter bunny with vague features and primitive textures, chasing you with a jerky, hand-animated gait? If you answered the latter, then the low-polygon horror games produced in the …