Metal Gear Solid was perhaps the most talked about game on the floor of the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo (better known as ‘E3’). That was quite the achievement when you consider the competition consisted of heavyweight titles like Quake 2, Unreal, Panzer Dragoon Saga, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye and Banjo Kazooie…

Take a dash of Ghosts n’ Goblins, a good helping of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and mix it with the 3D platforming and action format of games like Tomb Raider or The Legend of Zelda and you might wind up with something similar to MediEvil…

The mid to late 90s saw something of a boom for Japanese horror themed books, films and eventually, games. Parasite Eve (1995) is a science fiction horror novel by Hideaki Sena. While it would not be published in English until 2005, the book proved quite popular in Japan and would eventually see a sequel in the form of the video game. The game, released in 1998, was also titled Parasite Eve…

The PlayStation never really had an ‘official’ mascot in the same vein that Sonic was for Sega and that Mario was for Nintendo, but Crash Bandicoot definitely came close to filling that role. In some gamers’ eyes, he was the de-facto face of the PlayStation…

Welcome back to the world of survival horror…