Resident Evil [1996]

3 months, 1 week - What lessons hide within the recursive spirals at the soul of Resident Evil's Spencer Mansion? How did the REmake mess with our muscle memory and capture lightning in a bottle twice? And where does Resident Evil's iconic location stand among the pantheon of sacred gaming spaces?This is the Art of the Level: Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion. Let's dive into everything there is to know about the haunted house of Resident Evil and how the GameCube remake rethought its scares.

3 months, 2 weeks - In celebration of Resident Evil’s 30th anniversary, we’re looking back on the survival horror games that never escaped Capcom’s walls. The stories of a culled sequel, a struggling Game Boy port, the prequel designed for a failed Nintendo 64 peripheral, and the many, many versions of Resident Evil 4.Resident Evil has often punched above its weight, but ambitious attempts to put the survival horror series on Nintendo's Game Boy and N64DD led to two famously scrapped projects. Meanwhile, on the PS1, before Capcom finally created Leon and Claire's nightmare in the RPD, Resident Evil 2 was a very different game. We take a look at Hideki Kamiya's cancelled Resident Evil "1.5" prototype.

4 months, 1 week - Check out our list of the Top 10 Resident Evil Games! How do you choose your favorite RE game? Do you go with genre-defining standouts like Resident Evil 4? What about going back to where things started, like the original Resident Evil? What about the most modern and eminently replayable games, such as Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil Requiem? What people love about Resident Evil is often very personal, and tastes vary wildly in terms of what people find cheesy, horrifying, or even fun. It’s a difficult list for sure, but we assembled a crack team with very different opinions about what makes RE special, and we voted on the list you see here. So, prepare yourself for the ten terrors that await. These are the best Resident Evil games, ranked.

8 months, 1 week - It’s almost Halloween, so what better excuse to geek out about horror games? Max and Brian take a look back at the horror franchises that dominated each generation of PlayStation console. From the birth of Resident Evil on the PS1 to Silent Hill and Fatal Frame’s numerous outings on the PlayStation 2, to the PS3/360 era that gave us Dead Space, Condemned and of course, The Last of Us. A few major games arrived right on the cusp between PlayStation 3 and PS4, The Evil WIthin and Alien Isolation. And, of course, Bloodborne, which is absolutely a horror game and I can’t believe we have to keep having this conversation. Anyway, we also ranked the best horror games on PlayStation in the worst way possible, blindly assigning them ranking on a list without knowing what other games are contenders. This weeks show is Max Scoville, Brian Altano, and is produced by Nick Maillet

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