By now, we pretty much expect the characters in a horror film to make terrible decisions. When they trip while being chased by ...

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After many years of “tank” controls, static camera angles and increasingly formulaic gameplay, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami knew it was time to ...

Is there any game mechanic more universally loathed than the quick-time event (QTE)? One moment you’re enjoying a break from the gameplay, leisurely ...

While other movie directors may peddle low-rent adaptations of videogames to fringe audiences, Paul William Scott Anderson has taken game-inspired movies directly to ...

The continued success of Capcom’s Resident Evil franchise rests on one simple, yet undeniable fact: People like shooting zombies. We’ll forgive a lot ...

Here they come. Twisted hunks of gristle and entrails shuffle down the corridor toward me, waving long, menacing spikes of bone in my ...

There have been three Resident Evil movies so far, but Resident Evil: Degeneration, which premiered at Tokyo Game Show, does something they didn’t: ...

The epiphany hit me a few months ago when my girlfriend and I visited her cousins’ Long Island home. Their 14-year-old son and ...

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Welcome to de-rez, The Escapist’s newest video series, where game life and real life converge. In this episode of de-rez, Leon Kennedy goes ...