Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson says the first movie doesn’t adapt the games because it would ruin everything: ‘Imagine watching Alien if, going into the cinema, someone told you they all die apart from Sigourney Weaver’

Director Paul W. S. Anderson didn’t pioneer the videogame movie adaptation, but in the bad old days he was one of the very few to make decent (and commercially successful) movies out of adapting our blessed medium. I’m not going to say that stuff like Mortal Kombat (1995) or Resident Evil (2002) are high art,…

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Marathon Server Slam start times and rewards

A lot has happened since Bungie originally held its alpha playtest for Marathon, which ultimately caused the developer to go back to the drawing board for almost an entire year. One thing’s for sure: in that time, Embark has established a strong foothold in the extraction shooter genre with Arc Raiders. Nevertheless, it’s time for…

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When Capcom brought in a professional screenwriter for the original Resident Evil 2, it was his idea to fully embrace the series’ goofy puzzles: ‘We’ll just have to make the police chief a weirdo!’

While Capcom has been on a roll with the last few Resident Evils, earlier in the series’ life things didn’t always go so smoothly. Resident Evil 2 was rebooted about 70% of the way through its development, with the original version eventually dubbed Resident Evil 1.5. Later it would take Capcom multiple restarts to settle…

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