If the rumors out of Microsoft today are to be believed, things aren't particularly cozy at Xbox HQ. Former Gamerscore Blogger Chris Paladino twittered today that he and all his colleagues have been handed their pink slips. Anonymous sources tell VentureBeat that 30% of the company's game testers have been let go, and that even Microsoft [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Capcom announced today that PS3 owners won't miss out on the huge, two-level co-op "Resident Evil 5" demo -- they'll just get it one week after their Xbox 360 brethren. The demo, scheduled to arrive on Xbox LIVE this Jan. 26, will be available to download on PlayStation Network the following Monday, Feb. 2. For some [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
This week, you can read quite a few impressions of "Resident Evil 5" around the web, including a co-op gameplay preview by our own Jesse Henning -- but assuming you own an Xbox 360, you won't have to fight African zombies villagers vicariously much longer. For one week starting January 26th, Capcom is opening up two [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 18, 2008
Amusing? That all depends on who's holding the controller. This week, Microsoft has confirmed that they have the ability to retroactively and remotely affect data on your Xbox 360 -- specifically, the corruption of items like the Japan-only Resident Evil 5 demo downloaded by US and European users earlier this month. WorthPlaying received the following [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
When the Resident Evil 5 demo unleashed on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace, American fans were thrilled to discover that they could download it to their 360s with only a minimal amount of work. But, even though the Japanese RE5 demo was already perfectly playable by American gamers (and available in 100% English), Microsoft and/or [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." In 1887, when the historian Lord Acton reportedly made this statement, not a soul in the world could imagine such a thing as a modern computer hard drive, and the idea of corrupted data was far away. But if a recent report involving the new Japan-only [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 10, 2008
Capcom's community blog has posted an extensive video interview from Famitsu with Jun Takeuchi, producer of Resident Evil 5. The video contains a look back at the Resident Evil series thus far, and has some brand-new footage of the upcoming sequel.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
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