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New RE5 Trailer Debuting On GameTrailers TV May 30th

Former Kotaku guest editor turned television host Geoff Keighley dropped us a line earlier to let us know that a brand-spanking-new trailer for Resident Evil 5 would be debuting on Friday the 30th (or early Saturday depending on time zone) on Spike TV's GameTrailers TV. The new trailer shall be comprised of both cutscenes as well as gameplay footage, promising to offer more hints at the mystery facing Chris Redfield. Perhaps the trailer will also offer some insight into some of the images revealed in Famitsu earlier this week. Mark it on your calendars folks, Friday, May 30th at 1amET/PT.

Now that I actually have cable television once again I'll finally be able to feel really bad about missing it instead of being able to fall back on the no cable excuse.

12:40 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,960 views, 44 comments

Latest by gencid: @Bakeroo: Now all we need to do is change the location to Nordic Europe so that the people with personal agendas are heppy, while gamers get another RE4 remake. :| more »

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Let's Look At New Resident Evil 5 Art

Nothing like lo-res magazine scans to show off your game! This week's Famitsu has a huge 9 page article on upcoming Resident Evil 5 features game concept art, which sheds light onto how the finished product might look. While the game is set in a new location, it will apparently feature big boss style enemies from earlier games. So far, only three weapons are confirmed: a knife, a handgun and a sniper rifle.

New RE5 Art [DarkZero via videogaming247]

6:40 AM on Wed May 14 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
10,320 views, 84 comments

Latest by Placentasaurus: This game will kick so much ass, racism or not. And I really need to get a PS3 or 360 before it comes out. more »

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Resident Evil 5 Interview Confirms Africa Setting, Explains Why

Since the Resident Evil 5 trailer debuted, it's stirred controversy. And even more recently, it's stirred controversy again. Now a Famitsu interview has surfaced with the game's producer Takeuchi-san. Aside from telling us quite a bit more about the RE5, he confirms that the game is set in Africa and explains the team's choice for this, skirting the racial tension around the topic.
...we really wanted to show the origins of the virus. So for the setting we thought, how about using the place where humankind was born?...we thought we would use Africa, which is now called the birthplace of humanity, as the model.
He also explains that a "concept of light and darkness has always been a theme of Biohazard...as abstract [ideas]" and now the theme is working its way into the core mechanics. To me it's sounding more and more to be influenced by the famous Joseph Conrad novel The Heart of Darkness, a blending of both the metaphorical and literal "white" vs. "black" effects of European ivory-fueled colonialism. But Conrad's text has more than once been accused of its own racism, most famously by Chinua Achebe.

Resident Evil 5 Famitsu Interview With Takeuchi-san [Capcom Blog] Thanks Scott!

2:00 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Mark Wilson
16,434 views, 347 comments

Latest by residentevilNOTracist: resident evil is in no way racist it is in fact the people that judge everything on what color it is that are the most racist people in the world! more »

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"Clearly No One Black Worked On This Game"

In line with the earlier post on race in video games, Newsweek journalist N'Gai Croal offers these insights about the Resident Evil 5 trailer:


I looked at the Resident Evil 5 trailer and I was like, "Wow, clearly no one black worked on this game." Because I wonder, and I haven't sort of really dug into it that much, but I wonder what sort of advice Capcom gave them. The point isn't that you can't have black zombies. There was a lot of imagery in that trailer that dovetailed with classic racist imagery. What was not funny, but sort of interesting, was that there were so many gamers who could not at all see it. Like literally couldn't see it. So how could you have a conversation with people who don't understand what you're talking about and think that you're sort of seeing race where nothing exists?

There's more. If you're interested, hit the jump.
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9:00 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
70,790 views, 1290 comments

Latest by Spiderbait: I find nothing more racist than someone accusing everything of being racist for only mentioning anything concerning black people. I got a question for Croal. You say that the spanish zombies weren't offensive like the black zombies because they don't have more »

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Resident Evil 5 Going Xbox 360 Only? Capcom Says "No"

With the Game Developers Conference just a week away, we're expecting a few megaton bombs to drop, most likely in the form of big shooter announcements and hands-on time with games previously kept away from middling press types. Amid hints from Microsoft that it has one or two reveals still up its corporate sleeve has come chatter that Resident Evil 5 may become an Xbox 360 exclusive. The source? A GameStop listing that shows the title for the 360, but not for its other announced platform, the PlayStation 3. Not much to go on, considering the game has been announced as a multi-platform title months ago, but not out of the realm of possibility.

Curious, we asked Capcom Senior Director of Communications Chris Kramer about the speculation, who responded "Resident Evil 5 is coming for PS3 and 360."

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5:20 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Michael McWhertor
12,074 views, 199 comments

Latest by GorbyGipper: @TheEnd: I'm with you. I'm probably only half way into RE4, but it took me half of my playtime so far to get used to the damned N64-era controls. more »

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Resident Evil 5 Not Playable On RE: Extinction Blu-ray

Some errant reporting this morning led a few sites—including Sony's own semi-official blog ThreeSpeech—to believe that the Blu-ray disc movie release of Resident Evil: Extinction would ship with playable demos of Devil May Cry 4 and Resident Evil 5 for the PlayStation 3. Sorry, but that's just not true, as Capcom has confirmed.

Users will have to make do with high definition trailers for both games and crystal clear 1080p stills of Milla Jovovich in thigh-revealing outfits.

Sorry, Resident Evil: Extinction does NOT have RE5 and DMC4 demos on the Blu-Ray disc [Capcom]

4:40 PM on Fri Nov 16 2007
By Michael McWhertor
4,657 views, 27 comments

Latest by kNZA: @nya-chama: I actually thought the first wasn't great. RE is a much better videogame than it is a film! - @JonC: I wasn't trying to dis anyone for watching the movie. I questioned whether he actually intends to BUY it. His comment sounded like "I more »

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Resident Evil 5 Is Totally (Maybe) Set In Haiti (We Think)

After hearing from [NAME REMOVED] that Resident Evil 5 was set in Haiti, something we've been wondering about since the game's trailer appeared at Microsoft's E3 press conference, we wanted to check with Capcom on their home turf to see if we could confirm it. For the record, we really don't care where it's final location is—could be Raccoon Island for all we care—but we want to know why it's apparently some big secret. So we asked Resident Evil 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi about it, assuming he probably runs into RE5 producer Jun Takeuchi now and then. More »

4:00 PM on Sun Sep 23 2007
By Michael McWhertor
11,620 views, 78 comments

Latest by smeee: the voice acting in RE4 was seriously shit...even if they did end up speaking french...the accent would be so blown off that it could be any number of black majority countries which speak french. Which are a bunch...i think more »

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That's Haiti in Your Resident Evil 5

Remember that Resident Evil 5-is-racist brouhaha? The E3 trailer showed large numbers of black zombies getting killed, which set off a firestorm of controversy. Killing black zombies? Masked racism, critics say. According to our well-placed insider, there is a reason for that: Resident Evil 5 takes place in Haiti, zombism's spiritual home. Speculation was that it took place in either Africa or Carribean. And yes, according to our insider, the setting is apparently Haiti. Makes sense!

1:00 PM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
16,765 views, 165 comments

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Totilo Weighs in on RE5 Debate, It's About Poverty not Race

The Resident Evil 5 trailer is provoking responses in all directions, and I hate to add fuel to the fire. But as someone who was a uncomfortable watching the trailer the first time he saw it at the Microsoft presser, who also hasn't seen a decent summation of his feelings on the topic, I can appreciate Stephen Totilo's perspective. And I hope you give it a shot:
My problem is that it presents a fantasy I don't desire. It looks like it's an advertisement to virtually shoot poor people. I know "Resident Evil" games are supposed to be about hiding from and shooting zombies — this one probably is too. Shooting zombies is something I can get behind...But when I see a town of what looks like impoverished African villagers — the very image of global poverty, the very spectacle that since my youth has been coded in me to evoke sympathy and charity — I don't want to pull the trigger.
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12:40 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By Mark Wilson
11,085 views, 370 comments

Latest by HiroIsome: Just a thought, but the Resident Evil games have always been centered around a viral or parasitic outbreak. The first three games were centered around a large urban setting with a multitude of hosts. The fourth game is set in more »

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Black Looks On RE 5 Racism

For many people the trailer for Resident Evil 5 was seen as an exciting new direction for the definitive survival horror franchise. For others, it's racist hate mongering at its worst. Kym Platt at Black Looks, a blog dedicated to exploring issues concerning African women, expresses her concerns over the trailer which depicts Chris Redfield in what appears to be an African setting, struggling against a horde of black zombies.
This is problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of Black people as inhuman savages, the killing of Black people by a white man in military clothing, and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young... fearing, hating, and destroying Black people.
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8:20 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Mike Fahey
63,281 views, 916 comments

Latest by residentevilNOTracist: The reason its in Africa is because they want to look in the history of the virus starting with where all life began in Africa. So it should be a compliment from capcom to the African community to say you more »

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Resident Evil 5 In Still Life

Now that the extended Resident Evil 5 trailer is safely ensconced on both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Store, Capcom has released fourteen screenshots from it so those of you without the ability to download it can pretend you already did and you're just on pause. Virtual pause technology is just one of the many innovations Capcom has in store for you with Resident Evil 5. Capcom: Innovation is job 1, probably.

3:40 PM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Mike Fahey
4,479 views, 73 comments

Latest by CollapseControl: @TheIrishNinja: When i'm playing a game on the 360 my friends can still message me, invite me to play MP games, or just see what i'm doing in certain games. I always have at least 2 good friends online more »

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Extended Resident Evil 5 Trailer Is Up

Good morning reader people! Just a friendly reminder that the newer Resident Evil 5 trailer has popped up on Xbox Live. It's an extended version of the E307 trailer so that means one more thing: more zombies! Swing by, download it and tell 'em Kotaku sent cha.

7:00 AM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
9,141 views, 63 comments

Latest by n/a: It is Sherry, remember people in the canon storyline Sherry was impregnated with a G virus embryo in Resident Evil 2. My educated guess is she's in a testube because umbrella or whomever is trying draw remnants out. Sherry is more »

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Resident Evil 5 For Xbox 360 Was News To Shane Kim

A megaton announcement you might not have noticed at Microsoft's E3 2007 press conference was the appearance of Capcom's Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360. Another former exclusive secured! Huge, huge news. Well, huge news to corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios Shane Kim anyway. He was blown away by the revelation that the survival horror hit was coming to the 360, something we've all known about for just shy of two years now. More »

2:40 PM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By Michael McWhertor
9,870 views, 64 comments

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Got Resident Evil 5 Questions? Takeuchi's Got Answers

If we're going by trailers alone, Resident Evil 5 is my personal choice for best game of E3 2007. I'm in love with the setting, what appears to be a Haitian shantytown controlled by area warlords and Las Plagas. But with no hands-on time and little in the way of details on the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 horror show, where will we turn? Why, to RE5 producer Jun Takeuchi, of course. Capcom is opening up the producer hotline via its forums, allowing gamers to ask questions about the game's development. Itching to know more? Head over to the official Resident Evil forums and ask away.

Ask the Capcom Developers: Questions for Resident Evil 5 Producer, Takeuchi-san [Capcom Blog]

6:20 PM on Mon Jul 16 2007
By Michael McWhertor
3,424 views, 35 comments

Latest by Kruel: Lookin good. I'll gladly wait until they make a port to the Wii though. more »

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No Resident Evil 5 Before April '08

Capcom's recently released financial results reveal slightly less vague details about the release of the company's Resident Evil 5. Producer Jun Takeuchi previously told Famitsu that the game wouldn't make it before 2008. Now it doesn't look like the publisher will be able to get it to Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 owners before April 1 of next year. More »

5:40 PM on Tue Jun 5 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,497 views, 26 comments

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No Resident Evil 5 Before 2008

Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi, who is currently working on the next-gen Resident Evil 5, told game rag Famitsu Xbox 360 that we shouldn't expect to see the highly anticipated survival horror game until at least 2008. He also touched on the game system he and his team are developing, according to Gamefront, which will use heat and cold weather as part of the game mechanic. And, despite some neat graphical tricks, including full hair modelling, Takeuchi is shooting for a 60 fps framerate. Awesome. More »

7:20 PM on Thu Dec 21 2006
By Michael McWhertor
3,254 views, 23 comments

Latest by Runna: Hell they could just take the hair modeling out and put it on the wii...LOL Man this ain't right. Longer waits for games? Hey look fledging developers there is hope! You guys better get on your toes. Also too If they more »

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Resident Evil 5 Not 360 Exclusive, Says Capcom

So are Mr. Inafune, producer of the Resident Evil games, and Microsoft Bee Effs Effs forever and ever and ever forever? Japanese Xbox boss Takashi Sensui says yes. What does Capcom say? Get your hand of my shoulder, you weirdo! More »

11:40 AM on Tue Sep 26 2006
By kotaku.com
1,788 views, 18 comments

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What's Up With Capcom And Microsoft?

At TGS, Capcom's Resident Evil was MIA. The game was originally announced for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 last year. Word around the console is that Microsoft is attempting to ink an exclusive for the game with an announcement due at the upcoming Microsoft X06 event in Barcelona. Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui says: More »

9:22 AM on Tue Sep 26 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
374 views, 20 comments