In less than a month Capcom’s next mega release will be in stores worldwide. A hotly anticipated game like Resident Evil 5 is bound to have a limited edition version, but this game is a special case. Capcom has no less than five Resident Evil 5 limited edition bundles. Each version comes with different stuff [...]

Capcom launched a pre-paid Visa card with Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5, and Bionic Commando artwork. You don’t need established credit to get one since you deposit money on the card. Also, Capcom is promising special offers to card holders like “jumping the line” at events and discounts in their e-store. Sounds great, right? [...]

Street Fighter IV stick maker Mad Catz has a license to make Resident Evil 5 branded accessories. What kind of accessories?   How about Bluetooth headsets, messenger bags, console skins, and controller faceplates? Not interested? Well, that’s what you’re getting for $49.99, $49.99, $29.99, and $19.99 respectively. A Resident Evil 5 arcade stick wouldn’t really [...]

Capcom is teaming up with Sony to integrate Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, two of their anticipated titles into PlayStation Home. Both games will take advantage of in matchmaking in PlayStation Home so players can move from a swanky virtual lounge to a caged ring in Spain at a push of a button [...]

Eager Resident Evil fans have a fast track to the Resident Evil 5 demo. Sony already updated the PlayStation Store in Japan and the demo is up for anyone with a Japanese account to download. Of course, the demo will come out here later on, but if you really can’t wait you know where to [...]

What kind? Don’t know yet, but the product page on Xbox Japan confirms Resident Evil 5 will have some kind of downloadable content. Perhaps, downloadable tanks or Jeeps for the zombies not riding dirtbikes.   The product page also sprinkles a few other details such as system link only works with 2 players, not 2-16 [...]

Lots of stuff to justify the extra $30. Purchase the collector’s edition to get a Chris Redfield figurine, a Tricell messenger bag, BSAA patch, pendant of Africa with Kijuju writing, and a steel book case with even more Kijuju writing. Somewhere in the bundle is a game and a bonus disc with a Making of [...]

Eager Resident Evil fans found other ways of getting the demo early before the data “mysteriously” corrupted if you were playing outside of Japan. That was a bummer, but everyone in North America will get a chance to play the Resident Evil 5 demo soon. On January 26 Xbox 360 owners get the two level [...]

Resident Evil 5 has zombies. Zombies on dirtbikes too. Yes, you’re going to shoot through lots of zombies in Resident Evil 5. Sometime after those Chris and Sheeva are going to run into this thing.     Friendly looking isn’t it? This amorphous creature looks like it’s going to put up a fight.   Images [...]

Sony isn’t going to be left out of the Resident Evil 5 bundle club. The same day Microsoft’s Xbox 360 package hits stores Sony Computer Entertainment Japan will be ready with a Resident Evil 5 bundle of their own.   You don’t get any extra goodies in this package just an 80GB PlayStation 3, two [...]

While aesthetically less impressive than Sega’s Yakuza 3 PS3, the Star Ocean 4 Xbox 360 package makes up for it by including lots of goodies. This package contains an Xbox 360 Arcade console, disc with five Xbox Live Arcade games, wireless controller, Star Ocean 4, a selection of songs on the Star Ocean Best Collection [...]

The Biohazard… ahem… Resident Evil 5 demo went live on Japan’s Xbox Live Marketplace. I downloaded it and it’s entirely in English. In fact, the title screen shows up with Resident Evil 5 unless you have your console’s language set in Japanese. So, there really isn’t anything stopping people from playing it except for one [...]

Japan gets to enjoy co-op zombie shooting about a week earlier since Resident Evil 5 has been rescheduled to come out on March 5. Since Resident Evil 5 comes out in North America on March 13 there isn’t much incentive to import. On December 5th (the marketing department must love connecting Resident Evil 5 with [...]