Capcom’s main western studio is being shut down, the publisher confirmed today. Employees at Capcom Vancouver, which was primarily known for the Dead Rising series and was already hit by layoffs earlier this year, were told today that the studio is closing.

Capcom has laid off a significant number of staff in its Vancouver office as part of a shift that saw the company cancel an unannounced project and cut scope on the next Dead Rising, according to a person familiar with the company as well as various posts on social media.

Games have a zombie problem. They can be your basic slow shamblers or your fast berserkers, but whatever variation appears in a game, zombies are little more than mindless pinatas meant to be killed in large numbers. Zombies are rarely a challenge to fight on an intellectual level, and an enemy that doesn’t get…

Dead Rising 4 loses the “Xbox One console exclusive” label on December 5. The full game is coming to PlayStation 4 as Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package, including all downloadable content and a brand new “Capcom Heroes” game mode. It’s like a game of the year edition, only without being anyone’s game of the year.

Dead Rising 4 offers a fun zombie-bashing playground, but is not a good Dead Rising game.

Goichi Suda, known better as Suda 51, has made some bizarre games. From the political thriller Killer7 to the highly satirical No More Heroes. His games are vibrant and unabashedly tongue-in-cheek. What happens when he makes a free to play dungeon crawler? Pure chaos.

DLC for December’s Xbox One and PC release Dead Rising 4 will include an 18-hole golf mode called Super Ultra Dead Rising 4 Mini Golf. There will also be an expansion subtitled “Frank Rising” about protagonist Frank West getting infected with a zombie virus. Plenty more details here.

UPDATE (6/13): Dead Rising 4 is official. Microsoft announced the game during their E3 press conference today, after a leak revealed it last week. It’ll be out for Xbox and Windows 10 this holiday.

Naru Omori is a veteran video game artist who has spent pretty much his entire career at Capcom, both in the company's Japanese and North American studios. In that time, he's contributed to series like Resident Evil, Dead Rising and Devil May Cry.

There's a Facebok group called Dead Mall Enthusiasts. It's a fascinating collection of photos people have taken of abandoned malls across America. There are all kinds of socioloical reasons why that's interesting, but what's really got me is how they look like a video game artist's portfolio come to life.

Operation Broken Eagle, the first downloadable episode for Dead Rising 3, has been delayed to January 21. The DLC was originally expected on December 24, but Microsoft says they're pushing back the date in order to spend a few more weeks polishing and playtesting.

The real world can be a frustrating place. Stuck in traffic, trapped in line at the supermarket… it always feels like there's someone in the way. Certain games—the Grand Theft Autos, the Dead Risings—show us a world where it's okay to act on our worst, most violent impulses. Our forest of problems becomes a lawn we…