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Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition Will Come to America as a DLC

Capcom announced at the Tokyo Game Show that the Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition would be coming to America as soon as it decided on the release format. The game was planned for Japan as an individual item, with its own disc and art-covered box, but there was a debate regarding whether to make the North American ...

10 November 2009
03:04 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition Is Coming to America

Two weeks ago, during the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, Capcom announced the release of Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition. The game was ready to hit the Japanese market but hadn't received the finishing touches needed for the North American launch. One of the aspects that have to be set straight is the matter in which...

6 October 2009
04:42 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Might Get More DLC

It seems that Resident Evil 5, the zombie shooter from Capcom, could be on its way to getting more content via DLC packs. The game was released back in March and was well received by gamers but the campaign, even if highly replayable, was pretty short and the multiplayer modes rather limited.Capcom is probably thinki...

7 September 2009
12:32 GMT

Capcom Sees Profit Rise as Resident Evil 5 Sells Well

Capcom is following in the footsteps of fellow Japanese publisher and hardware maker Nintendo by announcing that it has managed to make a profit during the first quarter of the fiscal year. The former appears to be doing better, as it posted a rise in both sales and profits, while the latter saw a drop in both.The co...

3 August 2009
03:10 GMT

Resident Evil Series Doesn't Have a Clear Future Ahead, Says Developer

The San Diego Comic-Con was in full swing last week, culminating with the weekend period when many video game-themed panels were held by major companies about franchises that enjoyed a cult-like following. One such example is the Resident Evil panel, which was held by Capcom and which enjoyed the presence of Residen...

29 July 2009
15:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 for PC Gets Release Date and System Requirements

Capcom's Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular and best-selling series of titles for the Japanese company. With the arrival of the first game many years ago, fans were enticed by the survival horror genre that the franchise had created and loyally bought anything related to it. Even though it didn&...

28 July 2009
02:42 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Might Be Possible on the Wii After All

Capcom is one of the biggest Japanese video game companies currently active in the field. The large corporation has a lot of profitable franchises, but leading the group is its action-survival series Resident Evil, which has seen its latest full title, Resident Evil 5, appear on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. But, ...

9 July 2009
13:11 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Sells Over 5 Million Copies

The Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular horror survival series of video games out there, with the company responsible for it, Capcom, reaping some huge benefits off of its popularity and its loyal fan base who will buy almost any release with the brand, even though it isn't as good as the previous...

27 May 2009
02:45 GMT

Capcom Promises “Specific” Content for PC Resident Evil 5

Capcom is a company with some very big franchises that have sold quite a lot all over the world and have a big number of fans. But the company, while very successful when it comes to consoles and arcades, hasn't been having the best of luck on the PC. That is, up until now, as the company has entered the PC Gam...

26 May 2009
13:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Might Get More DLC Soon

Resident Evil 5 was one of the most highly anticipated games at the beginning of this year. It sold a lot of copies and, even though reviewers didn't praise it a lot in their materials, the game is still quite popular with fans all around the world who eagerly anticipated its release. In order to profit from th...

22 May 2009
02:42 GMT

Wii Fit Close to Breaking Records in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom videogame charts have the same leader this week as during the previous one. Wii Fit, the exercise game from Nintendo that comes packed with a Balance Board, has been sitting at number one for no less than seven weeks.Research firm Chart Track, which puts together the top 20 for each week, is saying...

21 May 2009
04:24 GMT

Capcom Pushed Forward by Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV

Capcom, a Japanese publisher headquartered in Osaka, has announced that both sales and profits for the fiscal year that ended on March 31 were up, driven mostly by good sales in its top franchises, like Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV, which were released in the initial months of 2009. The company also sees a g...

12 May 2009
04:24 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 2 – 9 May

This week, we've been busy playing Resident Evil 5 in cooperative play. It's been an interesting experience, to say the least. We've detailed it, talking about Chris' body, the problem with cutscenes and QTEs and about the missing horror element in the game. But other things have occurred this wee...

9 May 2009
09:31 GMT

Weekend Reading: Save After the Cutscene, Not Before It

The people who plan on playing Resident Evil 5 should have been warned, yet very few reviews have done that. The gaming population should have known but it was never told. The people who designed the zombie (yes, they are zombies even if more evolved) should have learnt a lesson, yet nobody sent angry letters, e-mail...

9 May 2009
06:31 GMT

Resident Evil 5

The Resident Evil franchise has been one of Capcom's primary projects ever since it was first devised for the original PlayStation console. Since then, the versions that focused on the main story tree have been a benchmark for any action survival shooter with a lot of horror aspects that made fans jump out of th...

8 May 2009
04:41 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Co-Op: No Horror Included

During the past week my colleague and I have been playing through Capcom's latest installment in its horror survival series, Resident Evil. We have already posted a few impressions we gathered during our sessions, making the whole aspect of the game quite clear for our readers. Now, I want to tackle a very sens...

6 May 2009
16:41 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Co Op: Too Much Quick Time

We've been playing Resident Evil 5 co operatively here at Softpedia, trying to see if the zombie infested videogame created by Capcom is a better experience when two human beings fill the shoes of both protagonists. And it's been a good experience until now, one that was marred by problems related to Quick ...

5 May 2009
17:41 GMT

Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV and Bionic Commando Detailed for the PC

We reported a few months ago that Japanese video game developer and publisher Capcom had joined the PC Gaming Alliance, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the PC platform back to the center stage of gaming. This meant that the company would bring a lot of its console-exclusive titles to the PC, ...

4 May 2009
03:20 GMT

A Gamer's Week: April 26 – May 2

Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, the roundup of everything important that happened in the video game industry this week. We've seen quite a lot of interesting things happen in these past few days, with everything from piracy to leaks from inside sources and official announcements. Wit...

2 May 2009
06:01 GMT

Riddick Cannot Unseat Wii Fit

After a brief period of shaking up earlier during spring, with the release of titles like Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, both from Capcom, the videogame charts from the United Kingdom seem to be returning to the rather monotonous image of a total Wii Fit domination.Considering that no blockbuster releases are...

30 April 2009
03:11 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Co-Op: Hard Being a Heroine

Yesterday, the gaming department of Softpedia decided to try some co operative play for Resident Evil 5, the latest game in the very popular series from Capcom. My last experience with the franchise was the excellent Resident Evil 2, which managed to scare me a little and to thrill me quite a lot with its puzzles, bo...

29 April 2009
18:11 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Co-Op: Big Muscles Don't Equal Success

The Resident Evil franchise has been one of the most acclaimed series of survival horror games, winning over a lot of fans with its intricate gameplay mechanics and the eerie atmosphere. Now, with the latest installment, Resident Evil 5, the game has ventured farther from the horror genre and closer to the action one...

29 April 2009
16:41 GMT

NPD Software: Resident Evil 5 Is the Biggest Game of March

Software sales for March 2009 are 17% lower than those for March 2008, which benefited from the release of Nintendo's Super Smash. Bros Brawl. The overall value of videogame sales is about 792 million dollars and the big title of the month of March is Capcom's Resident Evil 5, which moved close to 1,5 milli...

17 April 2009
15:51 GMT

Capcom Still Defends Resident Evil 5 Versus Mode DLC

The Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular horror survival series of video games out there, with Capcom catering to the tastes of a lot of fans with each and every installment in the lineup of titles. Resident Evil 5, the latest iteration in the franchise, has been launched for quite some time and has sol...

14 April 2009
03:26 GMT

EA Gets the Godfather Into Sony's Home Through Poker

Online services play a considerable role when it comes to the consoles of this generation as they usually offer gamers one of the most important experiences in terms of interaction. Sure, you can play a game alone, but the amount of fun and entertainment you get to have while playing it online with friends or even co...

9 April 2009
13:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Yields to Wii Fit

Resident Evil 5, the zombie-oriented shooter from Capcom, fought valiantly but, after quite a few weeks, was forced to cede the first spot in the United Kingdom videogame chart to the omnipresent Wii Fit from Nintendo, some betting that it will still dominate the chart in a year from now. Capcom should probably make ...

9 April 2009
03:28 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Still Holding Off Wii Fit

Capcom's zombie shooter, Resident Evil 5, continues to amaze us. Quite some time after its initial release, the title manages to retain the number one position in the United Kingdom videogame chart, beating Wii Fit to the spot.The zombie shooter has been plagued by accusations of racism and some have critic...

1 April 2009
04:06 GMT

Seth Rogen Loves Call of Duty, Despite Being “Decimated” Online

Celebrities are people just like you and me, so the fact that they play video games shouldn't be very shocking. We've already heard quite a few stars talk about one of their favorite pastimes, and reveal whether they were actually any good, or that they even resorted to cheating, like Metallica's Lars ...

30 March 2009
15:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5's Racism Is Comically Debated by The New York Times

Resident Evil 5 is the latest iteration in Capcom's survival horror franchise. It was set out to provide a new and unique twist on the events portrayed in the series. It teamed up the main character in the first game, Chris Redfield, with a new and lovely sidekick and dispatched him to Kijuju, a fictional Africa...

27 March 2009
04:15 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Still Killing Zombies in the United Kingdom

It seems that zombie killing is more important these days than keeping yourself in shape, as Resident Evil 5 from Capcom again tops the United Kingdom videogame chart, just ahead of Nintendo's Wii Fit.Apparently unaffected by the racism controversy that rages around it, the zombie killing shooter manages a rare ...

26 March 2009
03:58 GMT

Capcom: 'We Have an Embarrassment of Riches This Year'

2009 started off pretty slowly in terms of new releases, but Japanese developer and publisher Capcom saved the day as two of its most popular franchises, Street Fighter and Resident Evil, both saw new iterations being launched in February and March. With both titles achieving some massive sales, as Street Fighter IV...

23 March 2009
03:30 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Occupies the United Kingdom

These are truly exciting times for videogame enthusiasts. After the lack of big releases in both January and February, which allowed Wii Fit and other Nintendo platform games to dominate the United Kingdom videogame charts, March has brought a variety of new titles that have shaken up the top positions.The most recen...

19 March 2009
05:19 GMT

Capcom Showcases Resident Evil Numbers, RE5 Shifts 4 Million Units

In the history of gaming, there were a lot of titles that shined through their gameplay or story and took their respective genres to the next level, but Resident Evil not only brought a lot of great experiences to gamers, it also invented its genre of survival horror, as it placed various characters against endless h...

18 March 2009
16:01 GMT

PlayStation 3 and Resident Evil 5 Dominate Japan

Sony must be glad to get some good news, seeing how the company has been battered by falling hardware sales and reports of losses. On the Japanese home market, the company has seen the PlayStation brand managing to sell more than the Nintendo and Microsoft rivals, which is quite a feat.The PlayStation Portable sold a...

16 March 2009
13:41 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Paid Multiplayer DLC Set Straight by Capcom

In the past few days, there has been a lot of speculation regarding the multiplayer modes of Capcom's most recent iteration in its horror survival franchise Resident Evil 5. After a leaked trophy list revealed some achievements that players would unlock in two new modes, people started to talk about them. On Fr...

16 March 2009
07:21 GMT

Capcom Did Everything It Could to Prevent Racism in Resident Evil 5

The Resident Evil franchise has always been about killing zombies and potentially saving the whole world from an outbreak of one of the many viruses that either the Umbrella Corporation or other companies that followed it released upon unsuspecting victims. So far so good, nobody complained about that. But when Resi...

16 March 2009
03:48 GMT

Resident Evil Makes a Triumphant Return to the Nintendo Wii

Capcom has just released Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony and it's saying that the game is set to shortly receive new content via digital distribution. Still, the publisher and developer can't rest and today sent word that it plans to launch a fresh line up of ...

13 March 2009
05:49 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Gets Priced Multiplayer Mode via DLC

Capcom has just detailed the future multiplayer mode for its latest Resident Evil 5 title, thus confirming the speculations that have arisen from the trophy list update for the PlayStation 3 version. As we reported yesterday, a few new trophies were added, to be given to players who achieve various tasks in four mult...

13 March 2009
04:15 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Trophies Show New Online Multiplayer Modes

The Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular series of survival horror games out there, giving people terrifying experiences ever since the first title appeared on the first PlayStation. The series has recently seen the latest iteration, Resident Evil 5, already appear in Japan and in just a few days it wil...

12 March 2009
17:51 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Cinematics Director Might Make a Capcom Movie

Video games are slowly but surely becoming one of the most popular forms of entertainment available for a lot of people. Not only do they place the action in the hands of the player, but they also allow creative freedom for developers and writers, which have recently praised them for such things. Their popularity al...

11 March 2009
12:11 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Producer Talks About Creating a Beautiful Sidekick

The Resident Evil franchise is one of the most recognized series of horror survival video games out there. While the clever backstory, the complicated environments and eerie atmosphere all had a part to play when it came to the success of the game, a big factor that made it popular with all types of gamers was the fa...

25 February 2009
13:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Demo Downloaded 4 Million Times

Capcom is probably more than happy to announce that the demo version for Resident Evil 5, which is available on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, has been downloaded four million times by gamers who are interested in seeing how the veteran videogame series is evolving.Initially, the download was only available...

25 February 2009
05:03 GMT

Lost Planet 2 Announced, No More Ice

Capcom had promised a new game reveal and it delivered. An Xbox Live Marketplace teaser has shown that the publisher would create and release Lost Planet 2, a sequel to the third person shooter mainly known for the beautiful snow-covered vistas that it presented and for the gameplay mechanics, which relied on heat. I...

24 February 2009
15:01 GMT

Capcom Partners with Visa to Launch Gamer Credit Cards

A lot of gaming companies have a very important marketing department. The work done here is probably as important as the one done in the development studios as you can have the best game in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then sales will surely disappoint. Capcom, one of the most reputed Japanese game devel...

19 February 2009
03:25 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Gets “Terrifying” Sand Globe, a New Wii Game Might Be Made

Games fall into many genres, a lot of them established by certain iconic titles, and, without a doubt, one of the video game franchises that really coined the horror survival genre is Capcom's Resident Evil. The series delivered some of the most memorable experiences to a lot of players.Through the use of clever...

16 February 2009
09:21 GMT

Resident Evil 5 and Killzone 2 to Reach PlayStation Network This Week

The PlayStation 3 hasn't experienced quite a big number of high-end games ever since its launch. Executives from the company blamed the fact that developers didn't fully understand its hardware and that they merely scratched the surface in terms of what the Japanese big black console could do. But things wi...

3 February 2009
03:26 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Producer Thinks Western Developers Will Target Japan

Japan is one of the biggest countries worldwide in terms of gaming. Its own industry is very well built, with a few large-scale developers and publishers, but with a lot of small studios that create games for the local market, like RPGs or fantasy-inspired ones. One of the biggest gaming companies from the Land of th...

26 January 2009
02:44 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Demo Gets Dated for PS3, Collector's Edition Revealed

The gaming industry has quite a lot of iconic franchises, which have pushed gaming to a whole new level in terms of gameplay or story. One such series is Capcom's Resident Evil, which took survival horror shooters to new heights as it brought innovations to gameplay and introduced an intricate story that is stil...

21 January 2009
16:51 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Demo Lurches onto Xbox Live on January 26

Capcom is announcing, to the joy of fans world wide, that it has created a demo version for its upcoming Resident Evil 5 zombie shooter set to arrive on Xbox Live on January 26. The idea behind the move is to get players a taste of what the new game has to offer and, of course, generate hype and anticipation before t...

15 January 2009
04:25 GMT

Resident Evil 5 and Star Ocean Bundles for the Xbox 360

Microsoft is sending word that it plans to introduce two limited time bundles of its Xbox 360 gaming console, especially for the Japanese market. In Japan, the Microsoft made device has mostly trailed the Sony made PlayStation 3 in sales, even after the recent price reduction, and the bundles could be a way of genera...

8 January 2009
02:06 GMT


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