They finally came out and said it. GAIDEN is not canon.

[News Bot]

"cvxfreak sent me this, I don't have the book and don't know anything beyond that" would have been the right answer. Posting something completely unrelated to make me look bad wasn't. So, yes, I am now officially "butthurt" and will take the opportunity to not care in the future.

lol, to make you look bad? It was a joke. Grow up.

[Rancid Cheese]

My thoughts exactly REGaiden is the GREATEST game not just RE game but the greatest GAME . . . EVER!

[Mr. Spencer]

The level of crying in this topic is amazing.

[Pikminister]

Jesus, I thought this was the same thread I've posted a comment on no more than a week ago... but its another one!

You really need to go back and play the game. Leon wasn't infected at the end of Gaiden. That wasn't even Leon. It was the BOW. Only the BOW bleeds green. When Lucia was infected with the parasite, she still bled red. That's how they knew the difference between the real Lucia and the BOW.

This.

How many freakin' times will there be a need for that TRUTH to be said?

I think ppl that haven't played Gaiden should just STFU about it. Seriously. Who cares what a magazine or interview said. The game itself makes it pretty clear.

That Leon was not infected by the BOW since the BOW cannot infect shit. Its an amoeba thingy that goes around taking the form of several human beings (without killing them in the process). You're given a direct clue on how to tell the BOW apart from the human being it imitated (green blood).

The part about RE Gaiden not being canon, well I don't think anyone seriously disagrees with that.

[cvxfreak]

Sorry for the delay -- but here are the credits for the book.

If anyone needs help with the names, please let me know.

EDIT: Not sure how it became sideways. Sorry!

[News Bot]

Please check for accuracy:

Publishing: CAPCOM Co., Ltd
Editor: Ito Kenshin (confirm this one)
Coordinator: Satoshi Sato/Masaya Maeda/Rumi Suzuki/Tomoya Takase
Product Manager: Tetsuya Ono
Editing & Production: 有限会社カリ夕ジアン (mind translating this one? Can't get it properly)
Writing: 有限会社カリ夕ジアン, Jun Otomo
Supervision: CAPCOM Co., Ltd, BIOHAZARD Series Development Team

Pretty reputable.

Ono and Otomo were both in charge of the Archives books.

[cvxfreak]

Editor: Noriomi Ito
Editing and Production: Karitasian Co. Ltd. (I can't believe they don't come up in Google... so this is a guess)

[News Bot]

Ahhh, I think you mean Karitajian. They handled the Kaitai Shinsho books and Archives, as well as other stuff like Catalysis and Incubate.