I finally got a chance to play the Resident Evil 5 demo, which has been out a week on X360 for Live Gold members (i.e. not me). I tried out both the 360 and PS3 versions last night. I noticed no significant difference between the two. All impressions below are from the single player levels.
The [...]

Silent Hill is a game series that is near and dear to my heart. Most would agree that it was the first truly creepy videogame, at least as far as psychological horror goes. I noticed over at Clickable Culture that Tony’s got a post about the ’sexy’ zombie-nurse treatment that they are using in Silent [...]

This is quite intriguing…. some footage has surfaced of the cancelled Biohazard 2, a.k.a. Resident Evil 2. Or at least, what was supposed to be Resident Evil 2, at some point. It’s intriguing because this game actually looks better than the “official” RE2, at least from what I can recall.
Lots more info for the RE [...]

As reported by Joystiq by way of CNN Money (?!), upcoming supergroup simulator Rock Band will be featuring the interminable, gut-wrenching, soul-beshitting songs of… The Grateful Dead.
The monstrous presence of MTV’s moneybags reveals itself:
The iconic group is making 18 master recordings from its diverse catalog available as digitally distributed game levels following Rock Band’s [...]

MTV has a nice little interview with the main voice talent in Dead Head Fred, John McGinley, whom you will recognize and say to yourself Hey It’s That Guy, as you do with actors that you don’t know that you know but you actually do, in fact, know.
I haven’t played Dead Head Fred yet, but [...]

The summer doldrums subside a bit this week for both the Wii and the PS3.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
This is a delayed heavy hitter that many a Wii owner have been waiting a long time for. Early reviews are mostly positive; the controls seem to have been improved from previous versions with the addition [...]

Many years ago I was sitting around with some friends playing the thoroughly mediocre Resident Evil 2 on PS1. At some point in the evening, god knows why, one such friend popped in a Danny Elfman CD and started playing the game using that music as background.
First thing we noticed was that track 2 – [...]