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Capcom has released a video showcasing how Devil May Cry 5 runs on the Steam Deck, leaving fans impressed with how the game looks on Valve‘s handheld console.Posted yesterday (November 24), the video shows a selection of gameplay from Devil May Cry 5 running on the Steam Deck.The video description states the gameplay comes courtesy of Devil May Cry 5‘s lead game designer, and shows off levels as Nero, Dante, V, and Vergil.While Devil May Cry 5 launched back in 2019, it’s still impressive to see

Resident Evil 4 VR’s The Mercenaries mode has leaked, confirming it will release for free next year.Over the weekend (November 20), the trailer for Resident Evil 4 VR The Mercenaries was reportedly uploaded to the Oculus YouTube channel ahead of its scheduled release time but was set to private before more eyes could see it.However, thanks to Biohazard Declassified, the trailer was quickly recovered and posted to YouTube, showing new gameplay as well as confirming The Mercenaries mode will be

Pragmata, the new dystopian game in development at Capcom, has been delayed until 2023.In a new Twitter post last night (November 18), Capcom announced that its brand-new title will now launch in 2023 instead of 2022 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC.“Our team is hard at work on the project, but to ensure this will be an unforgettable adventure, we’ve decided to shift the release window to 2023,” the publisher said.The announcement video attached also shows one of the main characters from

Capcom has revealed that a collaboration with Sega’s Sonic The Hedgehog is coming to Monster Hunter Rise next week, and it looks like…something.Available to all players of the Nintendo Switch title starting November 26, and day one on the PC version of the game (launching January 12, 2022), the crossover includes a series of character outfits for the player, the Palicoe, and the Palamute.Now, the Palicoe Sonic costume is definitely questionable looking at best, but at least there’s a lot of

Resident Evil 4 will notice a change to some content in the VR version coming to Oculus Quest 2.While Resident Evil 4 VR adapts the original third-person classic into first-person with all the familiar story beats and set pieces, this new release has notably cut all dialogue of a sexually suggestive nature.In a statement provided to NME, a Facebook spokesperson said, “Oculus Studios, Armature, and Capcom partnered closely to remaster Resident Evil 4 from the ground up for VR.

Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World has shipped over 20million copies since its initial launch in 2018, with a significant expansion launching in 2019.Capcom has announced (via Eurogamer) that Monster Hunter: World has shipped over 20million copies.

Capcom has set up a website to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Resident Evil franchise that also teases plenty of announcements for the month of October.It looks like there’s a total of nine announcements to be made, with the first two – a competition throughout October for a series of prizes, and a second linking to Resident Evil 4 VR which releases on October 21 – already revealed.The other seven announcements will run from October 21-29, and it’s currently unknown as to what they will

Ace Attorney franchise today (October 12), Capcom has launched a dedicated website.The celebratory website is currently live and features a greeting message from the Ace Attorney series development team.

Monster Hunter Rise won’t have crossplay or cross-save support between PC and Nintendo Switch, Capcom has confirmed.The latest game in the action role-playing series launched earlier this year on Nintendo Switch and since then, fans have asked Capcom whether the crossplay and cross-save function will be viable on PC when it launches.

Capcom has announced today (October 8) that Resident Evil 7 has sold 10million copies worldwide since launching in 2017.A sequel to the long-running series but also a soft reboot that returned to its survival horror roots, Resident Evil 7 underwent a shift in perspective so that the game was experienced in a first-person perspective.This also allowed the game to be the first Resident Evil title completely playable in VR, as players immersed themselves in the role of Ethan Winters, who travels to

Street Fighter V is supporting Breast Cancer Research by giving Chun-Li and Ryu some rather cool and very pink new costumes.Teaming up with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, game developer Capcom has announced two new costumes for Street Fighter V characters, Chun-Li and Ryu, which are being sold to raise funds for the charity.“These special edition pink hued charity costumes are designed to bring more awareness and support for breast cancer research,” reads the official press release.These

Monster Hunter Rise took the highest honour at the Japan Game Awards, taking home the Grand Award at the 2021 awards on October 3.The annually held awards, organised by Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association and partially voted for by the public, took place during Tokyo Game Show 2021.In a statement, CESA said of Monster Hunter Rise: “The game has successfully met the expectations of series fans who had been waiting for its release with a new and exciting hunting experience.

Resident Evil Village fan game in the style of Castlevania, complete with 2D pixel art and animation.Residentvania, which was developed by ”Oco‘ on itch.io, is a pixel adventure game that follows Village‘s protagonist Ethan as he fights his way through Lady Dimitrescu’s castle.Oco explained why they wanted to recreate this fan game in this style saying: “The first thing I thought while playing Resident Evil: Village was how much it reminded me of Castlevania, so I thought I’d make a mash-up of

Capcom has announced plans to make PC its main platform for games according to a report from Japanese outlet, Nikkei.In a paywalled interview with Nikkei and translated by Bloomberg reporter, Takashi Mochizuki, Capcom president and COO (chief operating officer), Haruhiro Tsujimoto explained that the publisher wants to focus on the PC as the company’s main platform for games.By 2022 or 2023, it aims to have software sales on consoles and PC to be at 50 per cent each.

Monster Hunter Rise, the hit action-RPG from Capcom, is finally coming to PC early next year – 9 months after its initial release on Nintendo Switch.That’s right – unveiled during the Monster Hunter spotlight at the Tokyo Game Show, Monster Hunter Rise is launching on PC on January 12, 2022.

Resident Evil 4 VR is launching on October 21 and it’s exclusively for Oculus Quest 2.As confirmed by IGN, the news comes with a new gameplay trailer for the title. Resident Evil 4 VR is a full VR remake of the classic survival horror experience and IGN has reported that it’s a “refreshing new take” and makes the “horror shooter feel practically new”.Resident Evil 4 VR supports both full-motion movements and teleportation travel.

Capcom has announced that Monster Hunter Rise will be getting a massive paid expansion titled Sunbreak, coming in Summer 2022.The expansion was teased during the opening of the latest Nintendo Direct last night (September 23), which revealed a new medieval ruined environment as well as a new wyvern-type monster.Capcom confirmed in an official post that the previous game’s arc “finally put the mysteries of the Thunder and Wind Serpents to rest”, meaning this expansion will be a “new, ominous

Resident Evil game, and you can download the beta right now.Richard Aiken, the creator of the fan-made game, has uploaded their remake onto itch.io under the name Biohazard (thanks, PCGamer).

Disney and Capcom to remaster Marvel vs Capcom 2.In an interview with GamerHubTV, Studio Head at Digital Eclipse Mike Mika was asked about the possibility of a return for the franchise and confirmed that the fan campaign to encourage a remaster may have had some impact.“The reaction was incredible and I know that both Disney and Capcom have seen that loud and clear,” he said, “we’ve begun some discussions on that right now and we’re trying to see how far we can go.”Digital Eclipse recently asked

Resident Evil games has suggested he may return in a future title.Neil Newbon, who played Nicholai Ginovaef in the Resident Evil 3 remake and Karl Heisenberg in Resident Evil Village, stated in an interview with the Awfully Irish Podcast that he and fellow actor Nicole Tompkins could be returning for another game.First spotted by VGC, Newbon discussed his friendship with Tompkins, who played Jill Valentine in the Resident Evil 3 remake and Daniela Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village.“I do make

Monster Hunter Stories 2 has received a trailer from Capcom, showcasing the new quests and Monsties that players will be able to get their hands on from September.The first batch of new content will arrive on September 2, bringing three new Monsties – including Soulseer Mizutsune, Elderfrost Gammoth and Oroshi Kirin – and four new quests for players to enjoy.A second batch on September 16 will add even more quests, including five co-op quests, two subquests and a delivery mission.The end of the

Capcom has revealed that Monster Hunter Rise is getting a Street Fighter crossover, with Akuma coming as hunter layered armour.While hunter layered armour is a cosmetic that’s worn over the player’s stats-based armour, the trailer shown for this ‘Capcom Collab’ appears to have a twist.Without wielding a weapon, it appears that Akuma will be able to fight monsters performing his signature fighting moves from the Street Fighter games, including his ‘Goshoryuken’ dragon punch and ‘Tatsumaki

Resident Evil Twitter account is teasing fans by posting a mysterious throwback to the very first game.Posted earlier today (August 22), the short tweet references a fan favourite diary entry found in the original 1996 game. The post “4 Itchy.

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin‘s latest update has officially arrived with Capcom also releasing new details on its content roadmap for the game.The Monster Hunter Stories 2 ‘Update 2’ arrived today (August 5) and – as reported by Gematsu – brings with it a new co-operative exclusive quest monster Kulve Taroth, along with Hellblade Glavenus and Boltreaver Astalos and players can even expect new subquests.Additionally, Capcom divulged new roadmap details within the new trailer, featuring

Capcom has confirmed the latest crossover character from its archives to feature in Monster Hunter Rise will be Amaterasu, the wolf-like goddess of the sun from its classic adventure game, Ōkami.Amaterasu will appear in Monster Hunter Rise on July 30. However, from the trailer Capcom released to announce her arrival, it doesn’t seem as though she’ll actually be a distinct character.

Capcom has announced that mobile fighting game, Street Fighter: Duel, will soon be released worldwide.First released solely in China in 2020, Street Fighter: Duel will be making its way worldwide according to an announcement from Capcom as part of the North America East event for the Capcom Pro Tour. Thanks, EventHubs for spotting it.The game is a joint project from TOPJOY, Tencent Games, and Capcom.

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin has officially shipped over one million copies worldwide.Capcom announced the news today via the game’s Twitter account, thanking fans for their support.“The numbers are in!” it said.

Capcom has updated Resident Evil Village to add AMD’s FSR and optimise the Denuvo anti-piracy tech to reduce stuttering.Capcom had promised an update to improve PC performance, and it has finally arrived. The update adds AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution option to the game’s setting.This software allows for games to be played at a lower resolution and then be upscaled to a monitor’s native resolution.

PC gamers playing Resident Evil Village have long struggled with performance issues including major stuttering, which hackers allege are being caused by Capcom‘s own DRM software.After allegations from a notable member in the video game cracking community that Capcom’s DRM software was causing significant stuttering issues on PC versions, DSOG are reporting that they also believe this to be the case after testing.The site alleges that despite dealing with stuttering problems during their initial

Resident Evil Village has officially shipped over 4.5 million units since launching in May, Capcom announces.A new translated Twitter post confirms that the latest game in the horror franchise has exceeded the 4.5 million mark in “cumulative worldwide sales”, crossing another milestone.This also means that Village has officially overtaken Resident Evil 2‘s two-month launch sales.

Capcom has outlined the post-launch content for its upcoming RPG spin-off, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin.Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin‘s downloadable content roadmap has been revealed thanks to a tweet from the series’ official account, detailing five different title updates to be released in July, August, September and October.Get a glimpse of our post-launch roadmap of free updates for #MHStories2!

Resident Evil fans has released a demo for a remake of 2000’s Resident Evil: Code Veronica.Released yesterday (June 22), the demo consists of the opening area of Resident Evil: Code Veronica.The team says it is aiming to recreate the entire game in the style of Capcom‘s official remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, as well as “respecting the original game a lot”.

Tekken X Street Fighter developer Katsuhiro Harada confirmed on Twitter earlier today (June 22) that the game isn’t cancelled.Harada tweeted the news following numerous recent reports that the fighting game had been cancelled. Said reports were based on an interview in which Harada was mistranslated as saying the game was dead.Harada explained the mistranslation in a TwitLonger post, blaming the error on the word Okura-iri which was translated as meaning the project had died.

Bandai Namco has cancelled Tekken x Street Fighter, 11 years after it was first announced.Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada and Tekken 7 director Kouhei Ikeda have confirmed that the highly-anticipated Tekken and Street Fighter crossover has been canned.“We were working really hard on that, we really were,” they said during the most recent episode of Harada’s Bar (via TheGamer).

Capcom announced during its E3 showcase last night (June 14) that the team behind Resident Evil Village is working on additional content.A message appeared during the stream confirming the announcement. It read: “By popular demand, development has just started on additional downloadable content (DLC) for Resident Evil Village.

READ MORE: Xalavier Nelson Jr. talks about his next game: “El Paso, Elsewhere is my ultimate expression of vulnerability”As premiered at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest on June 10th, 2021, the trailer showed the role-playing title and the disappearance of Monster Hunter mascot Rathalos.