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A Silent Hill movie you watch just to say “That’s from the video games!”

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Daniel

While the original Silent Hill movie crammed together the premises of the 1st and 2nd video games, Silent Hill Revelation is predominantly based on the Silent Hill 3 video game. It does an awesome job of bringing the protagonist Heather … Continue reading →

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Resident Evil Six or Resident Evil Sux?

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Daniel

So we all know that beginning with Resident Evil 4, Capcom gave up on the classic survival horror genre and turned it into an action series to gain not a BIGGER audience, but a DIFFERENT audience. And they succeeded. No … Continue reading →

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My kind of video game: zombies, cheerleaders, headless hunks, and 80s love

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Daniel

Forget the story, suspense, or scares of survival horror. Lollipop Chainsaw is a straight up hack n’ slash arcade style video game that is loads of zombie slaughtering fun. It’s just you, a chainsaw, a hot dumb cheerleader sucking on … Continue reading →

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Cursed Mountain: Emphasis on the Curse…LOTS of them

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Daniel

Cursed Mountain on the Wii had the potential to be the best survival horror game of this generation to capture the feel of the classics from a decade ago. Only one thing held it back. It’s on the Wii. With … Continue reading →

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Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City: this zip code will never be the same…

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Daniel

Let’s face it. The Survival Horror genre hasn’t, well, survived the horror of game companies obsessed with satisfying action fans. Recent outings of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Alone in the Dark have mostly disappointed long time fans of these … Continue reading →

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The future of all my collections does not compute…

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Daniel

Yes, I’m an obsessive and compulsive collector of media that matters most to me: music, movies, books, video games. It takes a lot of shelves to store all this stuff. I’m always needing to put up more shelves. But these … Continue reading →

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For Adults Only: X-Arcade…the ultimate place to spend all your quarters…

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Daniel

I’ve spent the last decade trying to re-experience classic 80s arcade games the way I remember them. Plenty of ‘compilation’ discs have been released for everything from the first Playstation to the Wii, but with these consoles, you’re stuck using … Continue reading →

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Not exactly the scariest nightmares you’ll ever have…

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Daniel

The 80s saw a revival of the horror anthology movie and short story TV show genres, from shows like Tales from the Darkside, Amazing Stories, Ray Bradbury Theater, and The Hitchhiker, to movies such as Creepshow, Twilight Zone – The … Continue reading →

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How is it possible for a video game to be Obscure twice?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Daniel

Half a decade ago, a survival horror game called Obscure was released for the PS2 and Xbox. A simple takeoff on the original Resident Evil formula and 4-years ahead of the re-vamped Resident Evil series in that it was two … Continue reading →

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Infogrames Warlords remake on PC ALMOST rules

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Daniel

Memories…like the corners of my television screen… Way back in the day—like 1983/1984—me and my friends on my block would cram into my bedroom on the hottest days of the summer, in front of a fan, and have serious sessions … Continue reading →

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