Amnesia developer Frictional Games, a small studio in Sweden, has highlighted 10 points that will "evolve horror" as a genre. It's what is need to take horror "to the next level," they say. It should start off "very mundane" in setting to give us normalcy so we can "draw close parallels" to our own lives. Let the horror elements take a while to build to so it hits better.
There have been some disappointing numbers from Capcom for the fiscal year ending March 31st, as revenue was down 16 percent to $1.02bn. Profits slimmed 13 percent to $84.2m. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has moved good numbers despite critical reception. 1.7m units sold in Europe and the US, with 250k in Japan. It became Capcom's 25th best-seller.
Capcom has released its sale forecast for the upcoming year. Resident Evil 6 is expected to be the publisher's leading jewel, and is touted to sell around 7 million copies across Japan, North America and Europe.
Sales for Street Fighter x Tekken have not been what Capcom thought they'd be, having sold 1.4 million units since its March launch, declaring sales "have fallen short of our plan". They blame "cannibalism" as one of the primary causes, as other brawlers have released "within a short time" of each other. Meanwhile Slant Six was right for a Resident Evil game.
Two Resident Evil 6 special editions have been spotted on Amazon. Interestingly, one is for PS3, and the other Xbox 360.
Developer Slant Six Games of Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City has made redundant 26 of its 96 employees, meaning over 25 percent are let go from the Vancouver company. The studio stress these are "temporary layoffs," as they work diligently on new business projects so they can "reinstate every single person affected." Their Resi Evil title sold 2m.
Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi talks Capcom's Resident Evil 6 co-op play, much like it was in Resi Evil 5, but they're introducing their new Crossover feature pairing co-op partners. At specific points in the game's stories the characters intersect and now they can be controlled by other players, who have been automatically invited into your game. There's no lobby for it.
Want to see more of Leon and his boy band haircut fighting to save the world in Resident Evil 6? Capcom have released two, yes two, gameplay videos of Leon at a presidential banquet. Resident Evil 6 features three campaigns where the lead for each "favors a certain tone." Apparently we can experience "tense, atmospheric gameplay" with Leon say Capcom.
Capcom has finally announced the Resident Evil 6 Collector's Edition. The package, which is detailed below, is now confirmed for a worldwide release.
Capcom has announced that the Resident Evil 6 demo is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace, but there's a catch: you must own a copy of Dragon's Dogma.
Capcom Unity's Brett Elston has said that they're aware of the screen-tearing woes of the Resident Evil 6 demo and have the issue thoroughly "being worked upon" - it might be at Comic-Con. The demo became available on Xbox 360 for those who owned Dragon's Dogma. It's a widely reported issue from gamers over in camp Xbox. Beans to spill soon on Ada Wong's RE6 role.
Filth! Capcom's Resident Evil 6 will feature something of a nudist boss fight as the ESRB ratings summary spills the beans on a female "human-spider hybrid" that dreams of a Playboy centerfold. She gets even more suggestive when jumping the player as she "briefly caresses" her person. Aside from this morally bankrupt content, we also plenty of "dismemberment and decapitation".
According to a report from Famitsu, Resident Evil 6 will include a new game mode called "Agent Hunt", which lets you take control of a creature in order to attack the main characters. It's not the same as the Mercenaries mode, as Agent Hunt will be integrated into the main game. You can unlock the mode by completing the game, which allows you to open up the mode to various stages in the game.
The Achievement list for Resident Evil 6 has been revealed.
A social service website will be fired up by Capcom to keep track of Resident Evil 6 statistics when it releases, with friends able to compare with one another and compete, revealed the publisher during its conference at GamesCom 2012 today. ResidentEvil.net will catalogue weapon stats, enemies killed, gameplay progress of you and friends, Mercenaries scores, real-time progress and more. Capcom will run community objectives for content.
Last week Capcom revealed its new global game portal Resident Evil.Net, a free online service that will be highlighted for Resident Evil 6. The publisher has released a new video detailing all of the features that the service will provide.
Trouble brews for Capcom as the 'early sale' of PlayStation 3 Resident Evil 6 copies in Poland weren't accidentally released early but were in fact stolen and then sold on. Capcom is "currently undertaking a thorough investigation" of the incident, they say, however it is a "small quantity of stolen copies" that got out. It was the German PS3 version of Resident Evil 6.
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 users will get to shoot zombies on the 18th September, as the Resident Evil 6 demo will be available to Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Network members on that date. Xbox Live Silver members will get it a week later on the 25th.
Have you ever bought a Resident Evil game and thought you want more? Much more? Well, Capcom is set to launch a European E-Store later this year. Aimed towards the more dedicated fans, this will stock plenty of special goods.
Microsoft has bagged three timed exclusive DLC releases for Resident Evil 6, they reveal, with more details on what's involved to be announced post launch, which is October 2nd. The platform holder revealed that some DLC would be "available first on Xbox 360" back in June at E3, but now details are starting to come out. Resident Evil 6 also hits PS3 and PC.