Among other things…
The massive Capcom hack from a week and a half ago has, for better or worse, borne fruit. And it brings a number of revelaitons, most notably for Resident Evil Village.
According to these leaks, RE: Village is planned for an April 2021 release. So, if that’s the only thing you cared about, there you go; you only have to wait, like, 5 months. There’s also a planned multiplayer battle royale Resident Evil game in the works but little of that seems to really be in the leak, so it’s probably not too far in development.
Aside from that, there’s Monster Hunter news. Monster Hunter Rise won’t just be a locked exclusive to the Switch, but rather, will be headed to the PC in October next year, 7 months after its March 2021 release on Nintendo’s platform. There will also be a sequel to Monster Hunter Stories headed to the Switch in June 2021, and it will also head to PC.
The hackers also exposed the payments made to Capcom for exclusivity deals. Notably, Google paid them $10 million to bring Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil 8 to Stadia. Sony, on the other hand, paid them $5 million to make Resident Evil 7 for PlayStation VR, along with the timed-exclusive DLC.
There was also a leak in the source code for some of their games; currently the only known ones were The Misadventures of Tron Bonne (which I had a good laugh at, considering I used a screen from it for the cover image of the article about the hack back when it happened) as well as Devil May Cry 2. Which is interesting; I wonder if fans could use it to make an actually enjoyable game free from the -6 month constraint Itsuno had placed on him by the company.
Also leaked were the code names for three projects, with few details about each. There’s “Guillotine”, expected on the Switch in February and other platforms in May, “Reiwa” with no defined platforms in May, and “Shield”, which is a multiplayer shooter aimed at streamers (and by that, they probably mean the same damn streamers that always get everything). It’s interesting to note that “Reiwa” is also the name of the current era in Japan. As to what that means, though, is anyone’s guess. Maybe it’s got a contemporary setting? Who knows.
Source: Polygon
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