Gaming

After years of focused Resident Evils that excelled in one particular area or another, Capcom set itself the unenviable task of combining the best parts of all of them into one single game. Puzzles. Horror. Action. Leon Scott Kennedy. Need…

Do you like architecture that plays tricks on you? Secret rooms in DOOM? The Ashtray Maze in Control? Thinking with Portals? The 5 a.m.? That painting of some books outside the lockers in the British Library that bends queasily as…

Capcom’s horror series has perfected its shooting and scares, but fumbles in taking the next step forward

In his own world, Leon S. Kennedy is a survivor too. One of the two heroes at the center of Resident Evil Requiem, the latest chapter of Capcom’s long-running survival horror saga, Kennedy has lived through hell. On his first…

Resident Evil: Requiem is filled with winking reminders of previous games, so I was surprised the touchstone I kept coming back to was the one Capcom surely want me to forget: Resident Evil 6. The latter set out with bold…

Blood, blood, gallons of the stuff. There’s a moment during Resident Evil Requiem — actually, no, several moments — in which I laid the controller on my lap and just stared at the screen in awe. Over the last decade,…

Within the hallways of the sinister sanatorium where Resident Evil Requiem’s opening hours take place lies some of the most frightening encounters I’ve experienced in the series to date. With my headphones on and the lights off, the ninth mainline…

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5 Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher: Capcom Developer: Capcom Release: February 27, 2026 Rating: Mature Resident Evil Requiem is about two people whose lives are forever altered by the worst day of work ever.…

Magic: The Gathering seems stuck in a loop: A new Universes Beyond set comes out and becomes a lightning rod for criticism and dissatisfaction from a section of the fandom, then an “in-universe” set follows, bringing some respite and unity…