After more than 20 years, Street Fighter 2 has finally been displaced as Capcom’s best-selling game–but not by the Resident Evil it was hoping for. Along with Capcom’s most recent financial statement, the Japanese company revealed that Resident Evil 5 has sold 6.5 million units worldwide as of Sept. 30, …
Read More »What games have taught us about surviving a zombie apocalypse
Brains… brains… Admit it, you think you’d be kickass in a zombie apocalypse–even Joss Whedon approves (opens in new tab). And you think you have it all planned out; where you’d go, what you’d loot, and even which friends and family members you’d leave for zombie bait. That’s cool, because …
Read More »Resident Evil 6 preview Impressions of a frightening new Chris section
We’ve been soaking up all of what we’ve seen of the early October release of Resident Evil 6, be it a new trailer or an extensive demo. At E3 we got our biggest chunk of gameplay, which featured big sections for the three campaign stars, Leon, Chris and Jake. But …
Read More »Resident Evil 6 Anthology, Archives editions confirmed by Capcom
Ordinarily, when we hear about video game special edition packages it involves a ton of useless plastic stuff and momentarily interesting art books. Which is why we’re so please to hear Capcom has officially announced the Anthologies and Archives editions of Resident Evil 6, for within lies a veritable treasure …
Read More »Capcom celebrates Resident Evil 6 by, er… opening a restaurant? Food is alternately exciting and disgusting
So you’ve just announced the latest entry in one of your two biggest franchises. The trailer is a barn-stormer and everyone is excited. Life is great. You want to splash out. So you do the obvious thing that a multinational Japanese game publisher does. You open a restaurant and start …
Read More »New Resident Evil 6 details arrive from Japan
Capcom’s American division was pretty quiet on Resident Evil 6 after its announcement yesterday, letting the trailer (opens in new tab) and a brief press release speak for the title. But hours later in Japan, a big reveal/Resident Evil 15th anniversary event happened where the developers behind the game shared …
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