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[Pikminister]

IMDb starts another rumor... Steve Burnside is back with RE6 (the movie or the game? it's not clear).

Sam Riegel

Guild Wars 2 (Video Game) (announced)
Various

2012 Resident Evil 6 (Video Game) (filming)
Steve Burnside

2012 Khumba (filming)
Jock 1

2012 Zambezia (post-production)
Hurricanes

2012 Sunset Stories
Label Guy

2011 Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game)
Additional Voices (voice: English version)

SOURCE: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726184/

[Pikminister]

UK sales for the week ending March 24, 2012:

1. FIFA Street (EA)
2. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (Capcom)
3. Mass Effect 3 (EA)
4. FIFA 12 (EA)
5. SSX (EA)
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision)
7. Kid Icarus: Uprising (Nintendo)
8. Battlefield 3 (EA)
9. F1 2011 (Sega)
10. Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games (Sega)

P.S. Not surprisingly, the Xbox 360 version sold more ORC units than the PS3 version.

SOURCE: http://www.gamezone.com/products/res...-debuts-in-2nd

[Pikminister]

OLD CRUSTY NEWS: Silent Hill designer unimpressed by Silent Hill HD

https://twitter.com/#!/adsk4/status/183196016282046464

SOURCE: http://www.destructoid.com/silent-hill-designer-unimpressed-by-silent-hill-hd-224421.phtml

AND THIS IS ACTUALLY NEWS: Apparently the customers at amazon.com are also not pleased with this less than stellar HD collection...

Item Under Review

While this item is available from other marketplace sellers on this page, it is not currently offered by Amazon.com because customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the item, the way we are shipping it, or the way it’s described here. (Thanks for the tip!)

We’re working to fix the problem as quickly as possible.

SOURCE: http://silenthillhistoricalsociety.com/?p=10599

[Pikminister]

The history of Resident Evil

An article from CVG that takes a look back at the series.

Apparently, it was written before ORC was released ("with Revelations for the 3DS already in the shops, Operation raccoon City imminent and Resident Evil 6 scheduled for the end of the year"). But there it is... to celebrate the 16th anniversary of the franchise.

SOURCE: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/340664/features/the-history-of-resident-evil/

[Pikminister]

Operation Raccoon City dev says: "Mission accomplished"

Slant Six Studio producer Mike Kerr told Eurogamer that while Slant Six would like to have seen higher review scores, it's confident that it has achieved what publisher Capcom originally asked it to do.

"[The critical reception] seems to be fairly polarised," Kerr admitted.

"In the end, I think our position on it is that we read every review and we try to pull out all the constructive feedback that we can so we can learn a little about what people liked and what they didn't.

"Then we look to what our internal goals were and what Capcom asked us to do and I think we accomplished what they wanted to do - we took the Resident Evil franchise in a different direction," he continued.

SOURCE: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-23-operation-raccoon-city-dev-i-think-we-accomplished-what-capcom-wanted-us-to-do

[Pikminister]

Me and my ninja skills already posted this Masachika Kawata uber-story yesterday on this thread...

http://www.the-horror.com/forums/sho...l=1#post215317

[Smiley]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167135/Survival_horror_market_too_small_for_Resident_Evil_says_Capcom_producer.php

Interview with Kawata. To sum up: Main games furthering down the action route.

[Wrathborne]

Fuck I feel old now...16 years ago I was almost 16...now I'm pushing 32.

... Why do I see a spider bleeding red blood on that comic cover?

[Pikminister]

Happy Birthday RE1 - 16 years old today!





Almost forgot... shame on me.

[Pikminister]

'Survival horror' market too small for Resident Evil, says Capcom producer...

...Masachika Kawata told Gamasutra in an interview.

"Especially for the North American market, I think the series needs to head in that [action-oriented] direction," Kawata said. "[Resident Evil's primary games] need to be an extension of the changes made in Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5.

"RE4 started in that direction, and RE5 kept going in that direction," he said. "And I think that especially for the North American market, we need to keep going in that direction, and take that a step further. And that's exactly one of the reasons that Revelations is the way it is,"

"Looking at the marketing data [for survival horror games] ... the market is small, compared to the number of units Call of Duty and all those action games sell," he said. "A 'survival horror' Resident Evil doesn't seem like it'd be able to sell those kind of numbers."

There are still opportunities though, for Capcom to explore the purer "survival horror" gameplay outside of the series proper, Kawata added. "So we have our numbered series, and we can say we have a more adventure-oriented version, like a Revelations-style game. And we also have Operation: Raccoon City, which is a third-person shooter.

"So I think that by extending the market in this sense, we can still have the numbered titles keep their identity about what Resident Evil is supposed to be, but still expand and hit other markets as well."

SOURCE: (There is a lot more to read at the source, and in proper context)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167135/Survival_horror_market_too_small_for_Resident_Evil _says_Capcom_producer.php

[alexdz]

Project Umbrella staff, now's your chance, get someone to Japan ASAP!

[Pikminister]

Capmco is hiring new Engrish Localization Director.

If you are a native speaker of English, have an excellent command of Japanese, and managerial experience, take note! Capcom Japan is hiring a new Localization Director to oversee the localization of our games into multiple languages.

As you know, Capcom has always been a globally-minded publisher with very involved localization processes, so this is not a position for n00bs. However, if you think you've got the right stuff, you should definitely reach out!

Applicants would have to feel confident managing multiple projects, providing creative direction, and working directly with dev teams. If you think you can and would like to do all that, send off your work history/CV and Japanese resume with a photo over to localize-hr@capcom.co.jp.

SOURCE: http://www.capcom-unity.com/gregaman...ation_director

From the same blog:

News Bot: Good, CAPCOM's localization is very hit-or-miss. The localization of the Resident Evil games is utterly atrocious...the story of the RE games being butchered as a result of things being mistaken, made-up or left out by the translators. The scripts in that series aren't cheesy because they were written that way, they're cheesy because the translators working on them do bad jobs.

[Pikminister]

Well, I saw this rumor a day or two ago but it seems to be picking up steam... even the guys at RelyonHorror got into it:

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries Bio Ops may or may not be coming to the Wii U’s eShop, since this is still just a rumor. But if this is in fact legit, then I’m sure we’ll get an official reveal at this year’s E3, where Nintendo is set to reveal everything consumers want to know abot their new console.

SOURCE: http://www.relyonhorror.com/latest-n...ming-to-wii-u/

P.S. My take on this: They seem to believe that this rumored Mercenaries game is the 3DS game.... however, there was yet another Mercenaries game that was recently released on the GREE platform (Resident Evil Mercenaries VS). It probably is THAT game and not the 3DS one. Since I doubt Nintendo is going to try to steal the thunder of an exclusive 3DS game by porting it to Wii U's eShop.

[Pikminister]

Slant Six doesn’t get the bad reviews:

Satisfied ORC player: @SlantSixGames I am having a hard time figuring out why this game is getting such bad reviews. It's absolutely fun and awesome!

Slant Six Games responds: Ha - us too! We're listening to the players though and they seem to like it and that is the most important thing

https://twitter.com/#!/SlantSixGames/status/182236399372738562

[DeadArtist]

The german IGN website gave the game a 6.5/10 rating.

http://de.ign.com/review/Resident-Evil-Operation-Raccoon-City-Der-Test/4