With a remake of the GameCube game announced and on it's way to the Wii, Capcom have released a handful of new screenshots and a new video showing the zombies in all their glory.

"There's been a bit of discussion of late on whether or not Survival Horror still exists as a genre. Curiously enough, it was one of the few 'genres' we have in videogame culture that is not solely contingent on mechanics, offering some amount of theme that had to be followed as well--though mechanics are a rather large portion of its definition. Most of the games do have in common a certain level of capability to offer frightening situations with the role of one person trying to survive with ..."

Do you remember playing Doom and laughing at all your friends who didn't have it? Or played a recent Star Fox game and wished they'd stuck to the high standards set by Star Fox 64? Have you been a devoted Metroid fan right from the start?

This article is all about games and their transformations over the years. It gives you the run down on each game and the big changes, along with bringing back a lot of fond memories.

Are there any other games you felt have really evolved over a long pe...

"Resident Evil is said to be born from a Japanese horror movie, “Sweet Home” (which was actually based on an NES game of the same name). Although “Sweet Home” itself took its inspiration in turn from several Western movies, it nonetheless carries with it the strong hallmark of the way Japanese culture treats horror – and that distinctly Japanese fear factor is what made Konami’s Silent Hill, Tecmo’s Fatal Frame, and Sony Japan’s Siren what they are.

The West and the East have distinctly dif..."

Courtesy of blog Wii @ Everyday comes the scans from the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu for this week, with new game announcements and more images of those known upcoming games.

Games featured:

• [NDS] 7th Dragon
  • Spring 2009 Release
  • Published by Sega, Developed by imageepoch
  • Directed by Kazuya Niinou
  • Quest is simple: defeat all the dragons
  • Four person battle party
  • Seven types of jobs: (Thief, Mage, Fighter, Princess, Knight, Samurai, Healer)
  • Each job will have four different appearances, a...

"Christian Svensson, Vice President of Strategic Planning & Business Development, went on record at the Capcom Forums with, “At the moment, like Zero, this is Japan only. That could change but that’s the current situation.”"

"There's something special about being on the edge of your seat, realising you need to change your underwear for the second time in an hour and trying to remind yourself (unconvincingly) that it's just a game. I mean, what kind of sissy would be scared of a game?

As it turns out, a lot of us. And more to the point – we like it. The horror genre, more specifically survival horror, has delivered an array of classic titles and, like a fine wine, has matured to near perfection. With the upcomin..."

There are a couple of new/old screenshots for Capcom's recently announced port of a remake, Biohazard Wii, which is set to hit Japanese shelves on Christmas day. This is a port of the Resident Evil remake that appeared on the GameCube back in 2002. Currently, the only new aspect of the game thrown into the mix will be the use of a Wii Remote and Nunchuk control setup. Classic Controller and GameCube Controller support will also be included.

This is not the first Resident Evil game to be...

"REMake for Wii info:

- Port of REmake on GC
- Supports the GC controller
- You can draw your weapon by shaking the Wiimote (doesn't say anything about aiming)"

"His so-new-it's-still-bleeding Resident Evil tattoo."

"At a press event today at its Redwood Shores office, Electronic Arts announced a collaboration with well known Japanese game creators Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami, who previously worked together on the action game Killer 7 for Capcom. Shortly after the announcement, we had a chance to interview both of them about their surprising new partnership.

1UP: OK, to start: Who talked with whom first? What was the process in making this happy Suda/Mikami/Grasshopper/EA family?

Goichi Suda: Firs..."

"Electronic Arts Inc. today announced a publishing agreement with iconic Japanese development studio Grasshopper Manufacture. Under the terms of the deal, EA Partners will publish an all-new action horror game produced by Shinji Mikami and directed by innovative game designer Suda51.

The title is being developed for the PC, Xbox 360(R) video game system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system and Wii(TM).

"Grasshopper Manufacture is excited to work with EA Partners ..."

"Video game characters are increasingly becoming the poster children for gym membership. With most of gaming’s heroes and heroines being chiseled, pert and with cheek bones you could grate cheese on, there seems to be less and less room for the more gelatinous gentleman in the industry.

That’s why we thought we’d celebrate those characters who said no to Atkins and still managed to pull off moves that would shame most gold-winning Olympians. But while they might seem fighting fit on your co..."

Many survival horror fans may know that Resident Evil wasn't the first game in the genre (though it was Capcom who coined the term "survival horror"). But where did horror games begin? It started way before Resident Evil, and even way before Alone in the Dark.
Braindead Studios takes a look at some of the first-ever horror games and how they have influnced today's survival horrors.

"Today at the San Diego Comic Con, fans were treated to the first footage from the Capcom / Sony Pictures Entertainment collaboration, Resident Evil: Degeneration. Making its theatrical debut this fall in Japan and coming to DVD and Blu-ray in North America later in 2008, this spectacular, all-CGI animated feature takes the zombie action to a whole new level with its ground-breaking visual effects and thrilling new storyline"