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‘Resident Evil’ Team is Focused On Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is the future, at least as far as Capcom’s Development Division 1 — their in-house Resident Evil team — is concerned. In an Integrated Report published earlier this week, the company detailed their financial growth strategies and plans for the future, the latter of which will focus heavily on the VR tech that has yet to make its way to consumers.
The report gets interesting when Jun Takeuchi, head of the Resident Evil team, starts getting passionate about the tech.
“At present, we are focusing our energy on challenging the virtual reality (VR) game market,” writes Takeuchi. “In this terrifying world, you can twist and turn as you like, but there’s no escaping the creatures closing in on you…until you remove your VR headset and return to reality, that is.”
Virtual reality gear such as the Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, which are coming from Oculus VR and Sony, respectively, could have a massive impact on the horror genre. It’s just a matter of time before we see the tech in future Resident Evil games.
The “Kitchen” demo Capcom used to show off their new virtual reality engine at E3 earlier this year traumatized some folks, but that was just the beginning.
“The response [to the “Kitchen” demo] was excellent. Currently, we are building a new game development engine able to support VR, which is the hottest market right now, while simultaneously developing titles for current game consoles. We have just set sail on our latest voyage.”
It’ll be interesting to see where this goes. What do you think?
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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