Tango Gameworks discuss the revival of survival horror

"You know what? It's not something I have ever really thought of," says Masato Kimura.

The Evil Within producer was speaking while we were in Japan recently to preview the first title from the newly-created studio of Tango Gameworks, headed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. We asked Kimura why the eastern developers have such a handle on the genre they defined.

"It's probably just a cultural component," he explained. "We have a long tradition of horror stories and ghosts in Japanese tradition, among other things Kaidan stories. Japanese people are introduced to mysterious and dark things from childhood, and in modern days this has also been visualised [in our work]."

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