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16 Apr

Resident Evil Village Demo Start Time for PS5, PS4, Xbox, PC, and Stadia

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If the recent Resident Evil Village showcase left you excited but confused about when you’ll be able to play the game’s upcoming demos, you’re not alone. Capcom chose a…unique way to release these upcoming demos that has left fans scrambling for clarification. The very good news is that you will be able to play more of Resident Evil Village ahead of its May 7th release date in the very near future. When, exactly, you’ll be able to play those demos, though, greatly depend on your region, preferred platform, and ability to race against a couple of strange clocks. Here’s what…

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14 Apr

Resident Evil DASH: Canceled Sequel or Urban Legend?

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As the upcoming Resident Evil Village looks to terrify some with its classic monsters and excite others with its giant vampire ladies, fans everywhere find reasons to reflect on the greatest franchise in horror game history. Yet, I’m willing to bet that even some of the biggest Resident Evil fans haven’t heard about the “missing” game in the franchise: Resident Evil: DASH. For over twenty years, rumors of a canceled project known simply as Resident Evil: DASH have divided the Resident Evil fanbase. For some, it’s the ultimate missing part of Resident Evil‘s legacy. To others, it’s one of the…

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01 Apr

Resident Alien Showrunner Unpacks the Finale’s Big Reveals

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The first season of Syfy’s comedy-drama series Resident Alien is like the plot of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — if, before returning home, E.T. was a surly, not incredibly lovable being, who wanted to kill all humans, and tormented Elliott. So maybe not like E.T. But in tonight’s finale, the alien posing as human Harry Vanderspeigle does finally head back to his world. However, Harry’s departure from the planet and Patience, Colorado, ends up not being as simple as the Reese’s-loving alien’s. Instead, Harry (Alan Tudyk) ultimately abandons his mission to wipe out humanity in the interest of saving his friend…

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29 Mar

Link Tank: The Story Behind Resident Evil’s Worst Soundtrack

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Resident Evil Director’s Cut: DualShock Edition is best remembered for its abysmal soundtrack, but the story behind how it came about is worse. “The story behind this curious misstep is even stranger, and the 25th anniversary of the original Resident Evil is a fine time to revisit one of the oddest chapters in the series’ history. Here’s how Mamoru Samuragochi, the disgraced composer once known as Japan’s Beethoven, left his mark on the iconic survival horror franchise.” Read more at Inverse. Let’s take a moment today to remember actor/singer Andy Hallett and his lovable Angel character, the green horned demon…

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25 Mar

Resident Alien: Inside That Hair-Raising Cameo

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This article contains spoilers for Resident Alien episode 9. In the Syfy series Resident Alien, Harry Vanderspeigle, or the extraterrestrial in the Harry human suit, to be specific, has been trying to get back to his home world after completing a mission to kill everyone on earth. But in the newest episode, “Welcome Aliens,” he has a close encounter with humans in alien suits — as well as one “high-haired gentleman” — at a UFO convention in Dulce, New Mexico. The penultimate episode of the season occurs as Harry (Alan Tudyk) and Asta (Sara Tomko) head to the con to…

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22 Mar

Resident Evil: The Many Ways the PlayStation Game Was Changed

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1996’s Resident Evil is on any respectable shortlist of the most influential console games of all-time. While it didn’t invent the idea of horror gaming, it popularized that concept in such a way that makes it almost impossible to imagine how the horror genre would have ever thrived in gaming without it. Despite being so influential for its combination of concepts that once defined a genre and an era in gaming, the original Resident Evil was hardly the product of a clear creative vision crafted by those who were confident that their work would change gaming forever. If anything, you…

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04 Feb

Resident Evil Village: How Lady Dimitrescu’s Height Recalls Castlevania’s Dracula

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Weeks after her reveal, Resident Evil fans are still obsessed with Lady Alcina Dimitrescu, the latest standout villain in a series full of them. Specifically, gamers are unexpectedly taken by her height. When you look her up on Google or Twitter, you’ll find people talking about how tall she is, and more recently, how her height compares to other villains in the franchise. Kotaku initially speculated in a very entertaining article that Lady Dimitrescu was eight feet tall, but Capcom set the record straight this week, cheekily announcing the character’s height on Twitter: Your love for Lady Dimitrescu is loud…

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03 Feb

Resident Evil Village Location: Where is the Sequel Set?

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While most of the recent talk regarding Resident Evil Village has involved a certain giant vampire lady, there is a feeling of genuine excitement for the game itself and how it will build upon the stunning Resident Evil 7. So far as that goes, it’s kind of incredible that Capcom has been able to generate so much hype for the game despite the fact that they haven’t revealed many crucial details about the project. We still don’t really know what’s up with Chris, we don’t know exactly how Mia and Ethan ended up where they are, and we certainly don’t…

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26 Jan

Resident Evil Village Villain Characters: Who is the Boss?

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It’s not unusual for Capcom to hide Resident Evil‘s biggest plot points until we actually play the game, but the mysterious nature of Resident Evil Village‘s story and setting are significant even by this series’ standards. However, no Resident Evil Village mystery is more noteworthy than the unanswered questions surrounding the game’s villains. While we’ve seen numerous baddies in the Resident Evil Village previews and trailers released so far, we still don’t have a clear idea of who is actually the big bad behind it all and why so many elements of the game have such a decisive supernatural quality…

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26 Jan

Resident Evil Village’s Witch Revives Horror’s Most Underrated Villain

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It’s hardly a surprise that Resident Evil Village is capturing everyone’s attention (including our own) at the moment. Not only is it the next entry into one of gaming’s biggest franchises, but in a year that will likely feature many game delays as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a new game scheduled to be released in the near future that we can actually look forward to. Besides, how often do you get to celebrate horror in January? Of course, Resident Evil Village is nothing if not a celebration of horror that pays special tribute to the Universal horror…

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26 Jan

Resident Evil Village: Does Lady Alcina Dimitrescu’s Name Hide Any Secrets?

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Like you, we can’t get enough of Lady Alcina Dimitrescu: the extremely tall vampire lady who will apparently serve as one of Resident Evil Village‘s primary antagonists. While there’s no shortage of unanswered questions surrounding Lady Dimitrescu, one of the most fascinating aspects of the character is one of the few things we actually do know about her. After all, the name Dimitrescu isn’t common in the Resident Evil universe and leaves you with the impression that it was chosen to convey something specific. Well, after spending a little time investigating the history of the names Alcina and Dimitrescu, it…

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25 Jan

Resident Evil Village: How Lady Dimitrescu’s Daughters Pay Tribute to Dracula’s Brides

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While Lady Dimitrescu’s mysterious nature and…umm…proportions quickly made her an internet favorite, some of the most fascinating characters from the Resident Evil Village trailers/demo have to be Lady Dimitrescu’s equally mysterious daughters. Even using the word “daughters” is potentially misleading. Lady Dimitrescu refers to the characters as her daughters, but aspects of the game’s lore hinted at by circumstantial evidence suggest that they may not actually be her daughters. There’s even a hint that they could somehow be manufactured. It’s also been noted that the characters share many design similarities with the famous “brides” of Dracula who typically occupy the…

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22 Jan

Resident Evil Timeline in Chronological Order

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The reveal of Resident Evil Village‘s release date and gameplay brings us that much closer to another entry into one of the more complicated (and sometimes confusing) timelines in video game history.  Granted, the Resident Evil timeline doesn’t stray too far from the release order of the games themselves, but subtle shifts in the storyline created by the occasional odd entry mean that it’s easy to lose track of how we got here. That’s why we’re going to try to help chart the Resident Evil timeline as it stands today. For the purposes of this discussion, please note that we’re…

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22 Jan

Resident Evil Village Merchant: Is it the Same Character From Resident Evil 4?

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One of the most fascinating moments in the Resident Evil Village gameplay footage reveal happens around the 3:15 mark of this video when we are formally introduced to the game’s merchant. Naturally, any discussion of merchants and Resident Evil is going to make fans fondly remember the merchant from Resident Evil 4 and how his cry of “got something that might interest you” preceded what could very well be the only welcome trench coat flash in human history.  In this instance, though, the mere mention of a merchant in a Resident Evil game isn’t triggering flashbacks to Resident Evil 4’s…

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22 Jan

Resident Evil Village Maiden Demo: All the Clues You May Have Missed

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While the recently released Resident Evil Village demo (“Maiden”) can easily be completed in around 10 minutes, it still offers an intriguing look at one of 2021’s most anticipated games as well as the processing power of the PS5. More importantly, the demo is loaded with references, Easter eggs, and clues that enhance its short length by expanding the upcoming game’s world as well as our knowledge of what the mysterious Resident Evil Village is really all about. So whether you haven’t had the chance to play the PS5 demo (likely due to scalpers buying all the next-gen consoles) or…

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21 Jan

How Resident Evil Village’s Vampire Lady Dimitrescu Became the Game’s Most Interesting Character

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When Resident Evil Village releases later this year, it’ll have the tough job of following up one of the best survival horror games released in the last decade: Resident Evil 7. While clearly inspired by innovative classics that came before like Amnesia, Outlast, and Hideo Kojima’s P.T. demo, Capcom did its own thing with its first-person horror thriller, introducing fans to a gruesome new bioweapon and new protagonist Ethan, a character very unlike the gun-toting STARS and Umbrella agents from the franchise’s past. The result was a hell of a ride full of scares, dismemberments, and more than a few…

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21 Oct

Resident Evil Director Triggers Debate Over the Appeal of Classic Resident Evil Games

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In an extensive video interview, the legendary Shinji Mikami (whose directing credits include Resident Evil, The Evil Within, Resident Evil 4, and more) spoke about his career, influences, and the horror gaming genre at large. It’s a fascinating session that we highly recommend you check out (which you can do right here) if you’re at all interested in any of those topics. However, there’s one particular moment in the interview that has caught the attention of many horror gaming fans, including Silent Hill: Homecoming and Her Story writer, Sam Barlow: Mikami on fans who like RE1's camera and controlshttps://t.co/3nDLlWuDQN pic.twitter.com/vhl8xoRj3a—…

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15 Oct

Resident Evil Village Story Details Revealed by Capcom

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In an interview with Weekly Famitsu Magazine (as translated by Resident Evil researcher Alex Aniel) Capcom producers Tsuyoshi Kanda and Peter Fabiano reveal new information about Resident Evil Village‘s enemies, story, and setting. The interview doesn’t give away a lot of details we didn’t already know or suspected to be true, but it does feature a few interesting pieces of information for what has thus far been a very mysterious project. That’s especially true of Chris Redfield who was mentioned far more often in this interview than he’s been talked about in any of the official descriptions of Resident Evil…

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06 Oct

Resident Evil Movie Reboot Casts Chris and Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker, and More

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The new Resident Evil movie reboot is moving forward, giving the fan-favorite horror franchise a fresh start unrelated to Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich’s film series, which finally concluded in 2016 after six installments. The movie is being written and directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) and is said to be more faithful to the classic video games. Indeed, if the castings reported by Deadline are any indication, this new take on the zombie story will lean a bit closer to the source material as opposed to Anderson’s far more action-packed adaptation. The movie has cast all of…

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28 Sep

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Animated Series Coming to Netflix in 2021

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During the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom revealed that a new Resident Evil animated series is coming to Netflix in 2021. Described as a CG anime horror series, the upcoming Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness will follow Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield as they embark on a journey that will “reveal a Resident Evil world unlike anything seen before.” Sadly, Capcom isn’t revealing many of the finer points of the show’s plot at this time. What we do know is that Infinite Darkness is being produced and supervised by Capcom’s Hiroyuki Kobayashi who has been involved with the Resident Evil series…

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