Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. There’s a lot about Resident Evil that is laughably bad and has always been that way. “Master of unlocking.” “Almost a Jill Sandwich.” But there’s a ton that’s been updated since its early polygonal days on the PlayStation. Its current remastered version on Steam is the best way to play it. I still haven’t finished it. (more…)

Resident Evil HD Remaster is a three-year-old shine-job of a 17-year-old remake of a 23-year-old console game that I d have little problem believing was a modern release if those corridor dogs weren t seared into my memory and stained into my underoos. That those corridor dogs are stained into our collective underoos (the vast interconnected underoo network that binds us all) suggests that Resident Evil is best remembered as a scripted spookfest: a one-and-done ghost train ride. You d be wrong...

Resident Evil 7 shifting the core series into a first-person perspective is an interesting change, but what if it had been that way all along? One enterprising Evil Resident (as I imagine RE fans probably call themselves I guess) has whipped up a prototype of the first Resident Evil running in first-person, cutscenes and all. It is weird/cool to see something so very familiar from a new perspective. The prototype likely won’t be completed or released publicly but here, have a look in these...

Biohazard 0, a poem by Alice O’Connor age 31 Biohazard Do you cry, o hazard? They call you a ‘Resident Evil’ Those nasty people Then sneer that you’re ‘Zero’ But o hazard look at you now: a hero You’re being redone by Capcom who make Devil May Cry which has a character named Nero. …

Survival horror lives! The critically acclaimed HD update to Resident Evil (released this past January) has now sold over one million units worldwide. This is in part because the dev team made a great product, but also because of the excellent word of mouth and general praise fans shared about the title. We want to thank everyone for rediscovering this modern classic - or thank you for trying it ...