Mon 4 Nov 2013, 10:49 AM by Carnivol

Slow news ... quarter!

It's a slow news period, that's for sure. Some are drooling (or complaining) over the obvious existence of a new Resident Evil project at Capcom, some are counting the minutes and Facebook likes since the previous update on Team IGAS' Resident Evil 1.5 restoration project, others waiting for The Evil Within from Shinji Mikami and his new band of developers, and some are clearly eyeing other stuff going on online in the world of gaming and what not.

Kickstarter's undoubtadly become one of the biggest promises in gaming this past year or so, with countless developers promising to try their best to deliver products that fulfills all your wildest dreams, wants, wishes, and expectations -- at a price. Some even allow the expecting and excited fans to contribute with content of their own -- again, at a price.

Some kickstarters might hit closer to home than others, be it 'cause they are for projects that'd be dreams come true for you or because maybe you're somehow involved and invested yourself?

The Next Car Game kickstarter, for instance, is for extra funding for BugBear's new racing/demolition game (which is a sort of mash up of FlatOut and Destruction Derby) and one of the designers on the game is an old colleague and former roommate of yours truly. "Small world"

The recently succesfull kickstarter for the Mysterioues Cities of Gold video game caught the attention of a few of our former forum regulars whom aren't as active on the forums as they used to be, but possibly more interesting to some of you would be that the translations into some of the additional languages supported were actually provided by a few of our staff members here at THIA. (Yeah... We're working ... that's why we're always slacking on the site and boards)

So, what about you folks? Any kickstarters you're following or eager about? What would you fund on kickstarter if popped up? Maybe one of the many attempts at bringing back classic survival horror? Outbreak clones?

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  Thu 31 Oct 2013, 1:21 PM by aris13

Resident Evil 5 has overtaken the legendary Street Fighter 2 as Capcom’s biggest-selling game since the company formed in 1983.

In a post on the Capcom Investor Relations site, the company pegged Resident Evil 5′s life-time sales at 6.5 million units since 2009, beating Street Fighter 2′s 6.3 million.

In third, Resident Evil 6 comes in at 5.2 million units, followed by 4.96 million copies of Resident Evil 2 sold since 1998.

Source

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  Wed 30 Oct 2013, 9:53 PM by News Bot

In 1997, CAPCOM established a subsidiary company "FLAGSHIP" led by Yoshiki Okamoto with lead writer Noboru Sugimura. This company employed a number of professional screenwriters. Their first project was the scenario of Resident Evil 2, as well as a supplemental novel (BIO HAZARD The Wicked North Sea).

In 1999, they wrote and released two "alternative sequel" drama albums focused on the characters Sherry Birkin and Ada Wong after the events of RE2.

For Ada's drama album, it follows the premise that she lost Sherry's pendant (containing the G-virus) during the events of RE2. Subsequently, after escaping the city she gears up and makes her way to France to recapture the G-virus, alongside soldiers from the mysterious organization that hired her to recover the virus in the first place. A battle ensues between her and HUNK, in which HUNK is killed and the t-virus is leaked in a small local village, Loire Village. The story picks up from there.

Happy Halloween.

http://projectumbrella.net/articles/...-Spy-Ada-Lives

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  Fri 25 Oct 2013, 11:24 PM by xfactor

There's a discount going on for RE Mercenaries 3D and Revelations on the 3DS Eshop. Both on sale on the Nintendo eShop for 3DS in North America for the low price of $10 each, as part of a Halloween sale.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/25...ies-3d-3ds-10/

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  Sat 12 Oct 2013, 1:18 PM by xfactor

Capcom is celebrating its 30th anniversary with game discounts on Stream for the recent days. Today, the Resident Evil titles on STEAM is receiving a huge 75% discount (except for Operation Raccoon City, which receives a 66% discount).

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/Capcom30Year

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  Fri 4 Oct 2013, 1:21 AM by xfactor

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  Sat 28 Sep 2013, 3:23 PM by xfactor

Its not often these days to hear discussion about the older Resident Evil titles. Recently, Shinji Mikami had a retrospective talk with IGN.

Within the talk, Mikami stated that Resident Evil remake didn't perform well sales wise, and that influenced them to focus on making Resident Evil 4 a "fun" game rather than making the scary aspect as the top focus. He stated that if Resident Evil remake sales were much better, then Resident Evil 4 will have turned out more closely to being a classic survival horror game instead.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/09/26...e-of-re-remake

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  Thu 19 Sep 2013, 4:57 PM by Carnivol

Our friends over at Project Umbrella just released their English translation of Director's HAZARD, the developer interview/drinking session that was featured on the 5th Anniversary version of the Wesker's Report DVD.



YouTube: Link
Source: Project Umbrella

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  Sat 17 Aug 2013, 2:06 AM by xfactor

According to Siliconera, Microsoft is offering Resident Evil Code Veronica (360 version) for free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers during August in Japan region. This version of the game has updated graphics rendered in HD, a new leaderboard system and updated menus.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/08/16...gold-in-japan/

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