"It was a once in a lifetime thing," says artist Matt Nava, thinking back on the success of his work on the video game Journey. Released in 2012, the game played a key role in ushering in an era of show-don't-tell video game storytelling. In Journey, mood, atmosphere and aesthetics are king; exposition and plot play second fiddle.

Requiem introduces Grace Ashcroft, an FBI tech genius and the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft from Resident Evil Outbreak. Grace is thrust into a bizarre investigation linked to her mother's murder at the Wrenwood Hotel,

The ninth mainline entry in the Resident Evil series is poised to shake up the survival-horror genre on Feb. 27, 2026, with a potent mix of frights, creepy graphics, and shifting perspectives. I checked it out at Summer Game Fest.