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Survival Horror - A Dying Genre

16 Dec, 2008, 11:22 am IST | by Nikhil Singh |

After swimming through the wave of recent horror games like Alone in the Dark, Dead Space, Silent Hill: Homecoming and the preview code of Resident Evil 5, I couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in my heart to see one of my favorite genres - Survival Horror - become a dying breed. Then I came across an article by Destructoid's Jim Sterling, about how the genre "evolved itself into extinction" and I couldn't agree more.


Go ahead and check out the article, after which you can join us in mourning the passing of the finest scares of our times.

Tags: Dead Space , Silent Hill , Alone in the Dark

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