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It’s is already shaping up to be an Alan Wake-intensive month – both American Nightmare and the PC version of the original game will be released in February – but developer Remedy Entertainment decided to up the ante by hinting at future games for the beleaguered writer. In a short interview with Joystiq at DICE 2012, Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne asserted that the Alan Wake series has a bright future as long as fans want more. “We’re crowd pleasers,” Myllyrinne [...]

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be Will Smith’s character in I Am Legend (or Vincent Price’s character in The Last Man on Earth, if you’re an old-school film buff)? End Night, an iPad exclusive coming out this month, just might scratch that zombie-virus-infected itch. Recently, Survival Horror Online had the opportunity to chat with Ben Falcone, the game’s creator and the driving force behind SKS Games. Here’s what he had to say about the upcoming [...]

Anyone who has been holding off on pre-ordering their copy of Silent Hill: Downpour should take note – reserving with either GameStop or Amazon will entitle you to two exclusive in-game items when the game releases in March. Gamers who decide to put money down at GameStop will be rewarded with both a nail gun and a double-bit felling ax. While an ax is pretty self-explanatory, the nail gun appears to have some nuance to it; GameStop’s promotional text states [...]

The holidays may be over, but February looks to be the month that keeps on giving. Big-name titles debuting this month include Resident Evil: Revelations and The Darkness II – both on the 7th – and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare on the 22nd. Also keep an eye out for two indie releases, Dear Esther and End Night, as well as Dead Island DLC and a re-release of House of the Dead III on the PS3. Which of these games will [...]

Video game publishers often look for new avenues by which to expand their most popular franchises. Typically, this cross-marketing takes the form of a comic book or feature film. In Capcom’s case, they decided to open a bar. On January 25th, Capcom celebrated the grand opening of Capcom Bar, a self-described “entertainment bar” located in Tokyo, Japan. Situated on the first floor of Shinjuku’s Pasela Resort, the bar offers a selection of Resident Evil-themed meal options, including Tyrant spare ribs, [...]

Many years ago, during Alan Wake‘s development, Remedy Entertainment announced that the much-anticipated survival horror game would release on both the Xbox 360 and PC. Nearly one year before the game’s release, however, Remedy dealt a blow to PC gamers by suspending development of the latter. A non-committal statement from head writer Sam Lake (“we’ll see”) seemed to destroy any hope of this port seeing the light of day. Seemingly against all odds, it now appears that the PC version [...]

Viral websites and Internet chatter from the past few days foreshadowed an announcement of zombie-slaying import, and Capcom did not disappoint: earlier today, Resident Evil 6 was officially announced, along with a three-minute long trailer and a November release date. RE6 will feature three globetrotting story arcs, each focusing on a different character: Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, and a yet-unnamed third person. The three campaigns can be tackled in any order, and, though the stories are separate, they will at [...]

Independent game studio Tequila Works announced yesterday that its debut title, Deadlight, will release this summer on the Xbox Live Arcade. Set in an alternate 1986 where a mysterious disease has transformed the populace into “killer automatons,” Deadlight follows a man named Randall Wayne as he travels the west coast of the United States. On their company website, Tequila Works describes the game as a “cinematic puzzle platformer” where “survival is the measure of all.” Though this is Tequila Works’ [...]

Fans hoping to revisit Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 in glorious high-def will have a little longer to wait. The Silent Hill HD Collection, originally primed for a late January release, has been pushed back to March. News of the delay first began to spread as customers who pre-ordered through Amazon received letters stating that the release date had changed. Other users noticed the January date listed on the GameStop website change to March. Eventually, Konami stepped in [...]

After several hints at a PlayStation 3 exclusive title over the past couple of weeks, last night at the Spike VGA’s finally confirmed what looks to be Naughty Dog’s first attempt a survival horror game in the shape of The Last Of Us. The trailer focuses on two people trying to survival and look for supplies, before a few infected and savage humans turn up… The developers have also released a short synopsis for the game since the trailer was [...]

According to a recent post on Siliconera, a gaming news website, Dead Rising 3 is already in development. On top of that, they have also leaked quite a few details about the game’s story and protagonist. Have a read of the article below: “Dead Rising 3 brings zombies to the fictional town of Los Perdidos, California. After the zombie outbreak, the town is locked down and under martial law. No one can leave, but Rick and a group of survivors have other plans. That’s [...]

According to insider information gathered by gaming website Kotaku, EA is looking to expand its Dead Space franchise into other games and genres. Although spin-offs are not new to Dead Space – a rail shooter, puzzle game, animated films, and comic books already flesh out the game’s universe – this marks a foray into drastically different territory for the survival horror series. Among the proposed new games are a first-person shooter, a flight simulator, and “an Uncharted-like game.” The more [...]

In a November 28th interview with Bloody Disgusting, stuntman-turned-director David R. Ellis revealed himself to be the latest director attached to the film adaptation of the Clock Tower games. Ellis, who is known for his work directing Cellular, Snakes on a Plane, and the recent Shark Night 3D, is the latest director assigned to the film after previous picks Martin Weisz and Jorge Olguin bowed out. First announced back in 2006, the plot of the movie closely parallels that of [...]

Tomm Hulett has confirmed that Silent Hill 2 will have the original voice overs when it releases alongside Silent Hill 3 in the upcoming Silent Hill HD Collection, coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year in January for the US and February for EU. However, the bad news is the latter will have newly recorded voices only. Writing to fans on the official Silent Hill page on Facebook, he says: “We’re proud to announce that Silent Hill HD Collection will offer an [...]

Yesterday, the official Dead Island blog announced details concerning the game’s upcoming DLC, as well as its expected release date. “Bloodbath Arena,” the first downloadable expansion for Techland’s open-world zombie game, is expected to be released for all platforms on November 22nd (U.S.) and November 23rd (Europe). “Bloodbath Arena” offers four maps wherein players, either alone or with their co-op buddies, can fight off increasingly deadly waves of the undead. Making things easier for the humans is the inclusion of [...]

An image released by Remedy Entertainment early last week teased the anticipated follow-up to their 2010 hit, Alan Wake. The new game, titled Night Springs, is slated for an eventual release on the Xbox Live Arcade. The image shows series protagonist Alan Wake standing on a desert highway, apparently a mere 15 miles from the fictional town that helped launch his writing career. Though Wake is holding a flashlight, gone is his trademark tweed jacket, replaced instead with more casual [...]