Complete Global Saturation: An Unofficial History Of Resident Evil - Vol 2

So here we are at the end of the season with Episode 12! After an entire year of looking back at the past 20 of the 30 years of the franchise - covering the period and (almost) all the games after Alex's first book - we catch up to the current new game in the franchise - just also in time to have a little conversation about the entire history! First up of course is Requiem though. In developme...

Episode 11 arrives, and Alex and Rob sit down to discuss - at the time of recording at least as we were mere weeks from the release of Requiem - the most recent brand new title in the series, Resident Evil Village. Released in May of 2021, confirmed nuggets about its development aren't as well known as earlier titles due to it being so recent, but that doesn't stop both the guys from looki...

Welcome to 2026 and Episode 10 of the series. After the holiday break, Alex and Rob are looking towards the (30th Anniversary) year ahead and sharing their thoughts on Requiem and the next 12 months, but then it's onto the main topic and looking back to 2020 and the release of Resident Evil 3 Remake - and it's companion online game - Resistance. It's not controversial to say response t...

In the latest episode, Alex and Rob are joined by a slightly exhausted CarcinogenSDA - right of the back of a massive no damage run in the RE3 Remakes hardest mode! Carci's history of challenge gameplay dominates the early conversation, looking into the history of his interest in making his way through the various franchise titles and how that begun. Eventually though its time to talk the main...

In the latest episode, Alex is joined in person in Tokyo once again, this time by John Linneman - writer, content creator of DF Retro, and all around tech guru from Digital Foundry. They sit down with Rob to talk about the development history of Resident Evil 7. Very much an important title to Alex as an experience learning about it's development is what inspired his first book originally. A r...

In the latest episode, Alex is joined in person in Tokyo by Moni from Resident Evil Database, one of Brazil's largest fan sites, while on her latest visit to Japan. They sit down with Rob to talk about the creation and reaction to what stands as currently Capcom's last major spin-off title in the series, Resident Evil Revelations 2. 10 years on from its release its been interesting to see...

In this episode, Alex and Rob take a trip back to the 2010's - when in an era where Capcom was figuring out the future of the franchise, they also revisited and expanded the past to new platforms, new engines, and HD displays! Remasters and HD Ports for everyone! Between 2011 and 2019, and including during the franchises 20th anniversary in 2016, many of the titles released in the franchise we...

In this episode, Alex and Rob are joined by Washington Post Game Journalist Gene Park. Together we take a trip back to Tall Oaks, Lanshiang, and Edonia as Resident Evil 6 is revisited in all its glory. After an intro with Gene on his history of gaming and how he ended up writing coverage of videogames for The Washington Post in recent years, a breakdown of the development history of Resident Evil...

In this episode, Alex and Rob are joined by JJ from the massive fan community Residence of Evil, to look back at the history of the 3DS portable era, including Mercenaries 3D and Revelations on the 3DS. As well back at the announcement of the vaporware that was Resident Evil Portable on the PSP in 2009. After catching up with JJ and how he got involved in the fan community, as this was just days a...

In this episode, Alex and Rob sit down to discuss the two Resident Evil rail shooter titles released for the Nintendo Wii in the late 2000s. The guys start with a brief recap of covering both the history of Resident Evil on Nintendo until their development, as well as the decisions that saw the low budget surprise success of Umbrella Chronicles and the larger budgeted follow up in Darkside Chronic...

In the first full length episode of the series, Alex and Rob talk through the lengthy development history of 2009's Resident Evil 5 - and its subsequent DLC and complete Gold Edition releases. After the massive high mark Capcom staff had achieved with the release of Resident Evil 4, expectations were high for the next big title in the series. But shifts within Capcom, extremely early promotion...

In our first episode of this limited run series looking at the creation of the next section of the Resident Evil or Biohazard franchise, Alex 'cvxfreak' Aniel is joined by Rob 'Rombie' McGregor as they discuss Alex's first book, his experiences in Japan, and their experiences in the community. Finally a look forward to the plans for Alex's next book and preparations for the...