I’ve done this song and dance too many times, to be frank. Every time there’s a new narrative game, folks crop up to ask if it is a game at all. The rub with that is there’s never been agreed upon criteria for a game beyond what I mentioned. Games are guided experiences. In the case of video games, the first word…

To me, as a non-native English speaker, it was always a very poetic sounding title. “Resident Evil” is the sort of characterization a poet would use to describe something and it’s the most effective (i.e. disturbing) precisely because it gives evil a familiar attribute. It does more to describe the location than the…