Capcom have announced that they plan to reduce the development cycles of top franchises – such as Devil May Cry, Lost Planet and Resident Evil – to around two and a half years. “We want to reduce the time needed to develop major titles from the usual three-to-four years to only 2.5 years,” Capcom CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto told investors. “Speeding…
Capcom Germany has posted the first gameplay footage from the third entry in the Lost Planet series which is due early next year on Xbox 360 and PS3. [Source]
The ongoing issue that many gamers have voiced over ‘downloadable content’ shipping with the retail game has not fallen on deaf ears with Capcom. The latest title that has gotten gamers up in arms over the saga is Street Fighter X Tekken which has future unlockable characters on the disc. It seems Capcom are looking into going about the matter in…
This first developer diary takes us behind the scenes at Capcom and depicts the studio’s serious ambitions for the upcoming RPG, Dragon’s Dogma… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRGX14h9EnM
Another exceptionally interesting looking RPG that is scheduled for 2012 is Dragon’s Dogma which arrives at the end of May. You will be glad to hear that Capcom has now announced that a playable demo of what the developer labels as an “open world action–RPG,” will be available to download globally starting on the 24th April. You can grab it…
The revealing trailer broke this week for Resident Evil 6 which certainly got our attention. Producer, Eiichiro Sasaki has now told NowGamer that the campaign will be around 30 hours over the three campaigns. “The three characters each have their own story and you can choose whichever one you want and play that story, experience that character’s story,” the producer explains. Two of the…
Capcom has used their media showcase in Rome to announce Lost Planet 3 and discuss most of their upcoming titles including Resident Evil 6, Street Fighter X Tekken, DmC, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armour, Dragon’s Dogma and Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection. Lost Planet 3 will arrive “early 2013” as reported earlier and will feature a new protagonist called Jim. The…
This new Devil May Cry trailer has popped up showing the new direction that Ninja Theory are taking with the series.
In short Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City is a spin-off from the series, set around the Resident Evil 2 and 3 timeline, and it takes the series in a new direction. Multiplayer is the focus and while you can still expect the horror bits, it is more and fast-paced action shooter now. There are plenty of well designed new aspects,…
An impressive new tutorial video for The Steel Battalion Heavy Armor has been released with shows how to be a VT (Vertical Tank) Pilot. This video shows how players would take command of a VT using a combination of the regular controller and Kinect for Xbox 360. It has also been confirmed that the game will be playable at PAX –…