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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

Japan Gets Limited Editions of the PlayStation 3

The console war is a very tough fight in which the top three manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, battle against each other by using any means necessary in order to ensure a bigger profit and to make their own products more attractive in the eyes of the consumers. Except for the price cut, a sure-fire way is...

7 January 2009
11:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Demo Will Appear in January Worldwide

The Resident Evil franchise is probably one of the most successful horror survival series of games out there. It has won over a big number of fans through its intricate story, its solid gameplay mechanics and the fact that it creates a gruesome atmosphere that can hardly be matched by any other game. Through its var...

18 December 2008
11:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Developer Talks About RE 2 Remake Chances

The survival horror genre couldn't have reached the place it holds today without the extremely popular Resident Evil franchise. The series, developed by Capcom, took the genre to new heights in terms of gameplay mechanics, graphics and the sense of choice given to the players. With the latest installment, Resid...

16 December 2008
02:43 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Gets Console-Specific Content

Resident Evil is probably one of the most popular zombie shooter horror survival series of games out there. These titles have gained a massive amount of fans and critical acclaim for the innovative systems that were employed or the terrifying atmosphere that reminded of Japanese horror movies.The latest installment i...

5 December 2008
03:10 GMT

Resident Evil Creator Says He Won't Play RE 5

The Resident Evil franchise is probably one of the most popular horror survival series of games out there, as it has gained a massive amount of fans ever since its first title was launched in 1996, for the first PlayStation. The franchise was created by Shinji Mikami, who has been the man responsible for all of the g...

3 December 2008
09:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Co-Op Demo Hits the Xbox 360 Next Week

Resident Evil 5 is probably one of the most expected titles for the beginning of next year, if not for the entire 2009. It promises to bring back the same eerie atmosphere that the horror survival shooter got us accustomed to and to take the series to new heights, in terms of realism, graphics and gameplay.We've...

27 November 2008
12:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Producer Talks about Female Characters

Resident Evil is widely considered as one of the best horror survival franchises out there largely due to the fact that its terrifying atmosphere and wide variety of zombie and other enemies gave players very memorable encounters and great gameplay.For the next title in the series, Resident Evil 5, the development te...

25 November 2008
11:01 GMT

Developer Says Resident Evil 5 Will Be a Long Game

The Resident Evil franchise is one of the most appreciated and respected horror zombie shooter series out there. It won over fans with its distinct gameplay and creepy atmosphere which engulfed the players as soon as they ventured through the first levels of the game. The multitude of enemies and different types of s...

21 November 2008
02:38 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Developer Talks About Co-Op

Resident Evil is currently one of the most successful and popular horror game franchises out there, offering players an excellent zombie shooter gameplay since 1996. The game emphasizes the dark surroundings and different types of monsters combined with a very gritty atmosphere to give players a true horror experienc...

17 November 2008
03:14 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Developers Talk About Horror in the Daytime

Resident Evil is one of the most popular horror survival franchises of games out there, largely due to the fact that it immerses players into a distinct experience that offers quite a lot of thrilling and scary moments. Most of these terrifying moments are accentuated by the dark atmosphere provided by the night...

13 November 2008
13:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Producer Talks About Africa and Racism

The Resident Evil franchise is one of the best ones in the horror survival genre, putting players against hordes of zombies or genetically mutated humans in a wide variety of scenarios and countries. Resident Evil 4 gained critical acclaim by taking the franchise to new heights in terms of gameplay and story, which b...

28 October 2008
01:39 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Developer Talks About Western Influence

Resident Evil is one the most successful horror survival franchises out there. It has been terrorizing gamers ever since the first title was released in 1996 on the PlayStation by Japanese developer Capcom, and it has spawned a lot of sequels, with the next generation title, Resident Evil 5, currently under developme...

27 October 2008
02:24 GMT

Developer Talks About Differences Between Resident Evil 4 and 5

Resident Evil 4 was a great game that pushed the boundaries of all the consoles it was launched on to new heights and set benchmarks for other titles that would appear on the GameCube or the PlayStation 2. It was met with very big critical acclaim having won numerous awards and praised for the creativity and the inno...

24 October 2008
03:50 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Looks Better Than CG Movies, Thinks Actor Ken Lally

The name Ken Lally might not ring any bells to most people but he is a Hollywood actor with a very decent portfolio of roles in hit series like Heroes or Alias. However, maybe one of his most important performances was the recent voice action and motion capture for the Alan Wesker role in Capcom's upcoming zombi...

23 October 2008
12:01 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Takes Realism to New Levels

Realism is a very big part of most games. Trying to recreate a real world environment and characters is often a pretty hard task. Especially with things such as clothes, objects or foreign languages. That's why Capcom, the developer behind the upcoming Resident Evil 5 title, wanted to make it as real as possible...

1 October 2008
20:01 GMT

Capcom and DC Create Resident Evil Comic Book

Capcom is not content with making yet another Resident Evil movie, so the company is also thinking of spinning its most valuable intellectual properties in the comic book genre. At the recent Comic Con in San Diego, the final details of a deal involving Capcom and DC have been hammered out and the first products are ...

30 July 2008
02:46 GMT

Resident Evil Countdown

It seems that today is rumor day over at Capcom. After we reported on the news that Street Fighter IV could also come to the PC and that it is due out for a holiday release date, we now have some Resident Evil 5 related rumors to share with you.It seems that PSU has a source inside Capcom that is reporting on possibl...

27 May 2008
16:11 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Head of Development Talks Game Development and Racism Claims

Last year, the Resident Evil 5 initial trailer caused a lot of controversy when it featured an all-black cast in the role of the mutants and recently new questions have been put about the way racism affects the gaming world, after game journalist extraordinary N'Gai Croal remarked: "Wow, clearly no one black wor...

14 April 2008
06:15 GMT

Capcom Releases Resident Evil 5 Video

Capcom Japan is 25 years old. Yup, for 25 years they have been making videogames. In my mind, that's a lot of years and a lot of games. And to celebrate their years, Capcom have decided to release a special DVD. The good news is that it features some Resident Evil 5 videos. The bad news is that you can only get ...

24 March 2008
21:06 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Demo Available in January?

It seems that the Blu-ray edition of the movie Resident Evil: Extinction will also pack a couple of goodies, the most important of them being a Resident Evil 5 demo. I wouldn't bet my house on such a release, but the list of contents doesn't end with the demo since the Blu-ray disk also packs a Devil May C...

15 November 2007
09:39 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Racism Issues - Black Zombies

When Capcom launched the newest Resident Evil 5 trailer, sites immediately started stirring up some controversy, basically in relation to the fact that players will be in the boots of the White guy, on a mission to kill the Black, zombie guys. It seems that "the first ignorant article has popped up in the form of a b...

2 August 2007
04:48 GMT

Keiji Inafune Wants Mega Man to 'Turn 40'

Yes he does, it's not a joke. Apparently, the video game designer loves the character he's created so much, that 20 years isn't by far enough for a name such as Mega Man. And he's right. 1UP.com conducted this poll to see just how many gamers are dying out there for a new Mega Man. Care to know ho...

31 July 2007
09:36 GMT

Shane Kim Interview - What, We've Announced That Already?!

In what is probably the most embarrassing interview with a Microsoft official ever, Shane Kim the company's Corporate Vice President of Game Studios got confused, forgot or simply didn't know that what he was telling to GameIndustry.biz had actually been told two years ago. Kim admits it was supposed to be ...

24 July 2007
03:56 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Delayed... A Lot!

Gamers worldwide (and especially in Japan) are just dying to see what Resident Evil 5 looks and plays like, having fallen in love once more with the franchise, after the last installment's release (Biohazard 4). Everyone was pretty sure that Capcom was already working hard on the Resi 5, prepping to launch it to...

19 July 2007
05:41 GMT


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