Though many recall the glory days of survival horror (which lasted roughly from the late 90s to the mid 00s), few remember a chilling 2006 title called Rule of Rose. Those who had the good fortune (or misfortune, as some might see it) of playing it remember it as, if nothing else, a creepy and…
When everyone’s favorite archaeologist Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones rode off into the sunset at the end of 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, few expected the character or his beloved film franchise (which also included 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) to ever return to…
Last August, Sony made available a downloadable demo called “P.T.” (which, it was later revealed, stood for “playable trailer”) that was developed by a company named 7780s Studio. Those who downloaded this trailer and played it discovered that it was actually a preview for Konami’s newest entry in its legendary video game series Silent Hill,…
Youth violence has unfortunately become a common headliner in modern news coverage. Last January proved no different for British news consumers, who opened their newspapers, turned on their televisions, and checked their favorite websites to see the face of Steven Miles. Dexter Inspired Murder? Miles, a 16-year-old whom his peers noted for his odd behavior,…
It’s no secret that movie cinemas have been in the financial dumps for quite some time now. Since the invention of the television and then the VCR, both of which brought films from the big screen into the homes of viewers, cinemas have tried every gimmick in the book to try to win back movie…
After many years of a functional joint operation that bordered on symbiosis, eBay’s board of directors has decided to split the parent company from its payment division, PayPal, and make the latter its own company. eBay/Paypal Split Although the news may come as a shock to most online shoppers (or anyone familiar with e-commerce, for…
Pretty much any gamer who was around in the 90s will rave about the glory days of video game publisher CAPCOM’s ultra-successful survival horror series, Resident Evil. A select group of those gamers—comprised mainly of huge Resident Evil fans and hardcore survival horror enthusiasts—will also reminiscent about a lesser known survival horror series published by…
It seems that 28-year-old actress-turned-fashion prodigy Amanda Bynes has landed herself in hot water with the law again. After making it two years into a three-year probation period that was slapped on her due to a reckless driving charge (brought on by a DUI that she received in 2012 and two hit-and-run incidents in which…
Whine-and-diners of Quick Stop Groceries and Mooby’s can rejoice: Kevin Smith, writer and director of Clerks and Clerks II, has officially green-lit a third and final entry in his sharp-tongued film series about the everyday lives of people who stand behind the counter and ring the register for a living. Perhaps because of its heart…
Star Wars geeks may not have to wait much longer to get their hands on real-life light sabers. A joint effort between the physicists of Harvard University and those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unearthed a way to solidify light. According to Harvard physics professor Mikhail Lukin, this new technology is a theoretical…
In an exciting new twist, CAPCOM has forgone its usually choices of Resident Evil leading characters (namely Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Leon Kennedy) and instead opted to shine the spotlight on Chris’s younger sister Claire in the upcoming Resident Evil: Revelations 2. Claire’s Comeback Claire, as longtime fans of the series know, first appeared…
The sleepy little resort town of Silent Hill may hold peaceful weekends full of sailing and sight-seeing for its tourists, but what it has in store for its protagonists is a whole other monster (literally!). Wandering the streets of Silent Hill has never been a walk in the park for the survival horror series’s stars…
Earlier this year, Tecmo Koei announced the long-awaited next entry in its sleeper-hit franchise, Fatal Frame, entitled Project Zero: Nuregarasu no Miku (Fatal Frame: the Black-Haired Shrine Maiden). Shrine Maiden will be the fifth major entry in the series, which also includes a remake of the second game and a 3DS spin-off. Before Shrine Maiden…
When fans of survival horror reminisce about the glory days of the genre—which lasted roughly from the late 90s to the early 00s—they typically think of classic titles such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Fatal Frame. Not many remember or have even heard of a 2005 underground title released by CAPCOM (the same company…
Some might deem it magical that a child star should grow up to be as socially conscious and determined to do as much good in the world as the character for which she became famous for portraying. That is apparently what happened to Emma Watson, the young actress whose name the world learned when she…