May 30, 2001

[]Resident Evil Gaiden

What is this you may ask?  Well looks like the Game Boy Color will get a Resident Evil game for its handheld console.  Virgin Interactive UK has announced that the company will publish this new game for the GBC.   It's not the original Resident Evil that was to be converted from the PSX to the GBC, it's an entirely new game.

"In Resident Evil Gaiden, Barry Burton, S.T.A.R.S member extraordinaire, hops on board a cruise ship infested with those nasty zombies. You'll have to be all stealth-like and stay out of sight in order to stay alive, otherwise the zombies will know you're there and try and convert you to the undead kind. The game will have more than 100 rooms to explore, in ten different environments. Throughout the game, you'll assume the control of three different characters in order to exterminate the decaying threat, and the game will jump into a letterboxed first-person perspective mode in certain parts of the adventure.

Resident Evil Gaiden is in development at UK studio M4, the same team responsible for Acclaim's Jeremy McGrath and Mary-Kate & Ashley Winners Circle, both for the Game Boy Color. The development team was also reported to be working on a Game Boy Color version of Dino Crisis, but since nothing has been said about this project since the first word more than a year ago, we're assuming Resident Evil Gaiden has taken its place in production.

Resident Evil Gaiden does not have a US release, but the game is being prepared for a Q4 2001 release in the UK. It will be published by Virgin Interactive in the European markets." -[ign]

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In other news Yoshiki Okamoto did speak on Resident Evil Zero at E3.  He stated that alot has had to change with the game being switched to GameCube format.  But as for right now the game stands as a prequel to Resident Evil.  Nothing was commented on any further.

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Sometime back there was talk about a Resident Evil (or Biohazard) game for mobile phones.  Well looks like Japan mobile phone users will be able to have this game.  All known at this moment is that this is only available in Japan.  [REMS] will keep you up to date with this as soon as we know more.

May 21, 2001

[]Yum... finally RE news...

-Capcom reported this at their homepage sometime ago for one of their new hits in the E3 line-up.  (Release Date: August 2001; PS2)

"After narrowly surviving the horrific onslaught in Raccoon City, Claire Redfield now seeks clues in search of her missing brother, Chris. To her horror, she discovers Umbrella Corporation's insidious activities are not isolated to the remote, mid-western city. No. Something much larger is going on here. Flesh-eating zombies, horrific beasts and now Wesker, a stranger from the past haunt Claire's every move. Just how far does this twisted conspiracy extend? What is Umbrella Corporation really up to? And who is behind this bio-tech terror?"

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-Yoshiki Okamoto stated that Resident Evil 4 will not be an online game as it has been rumored.  However, he did mention that Capcom Japan is planning an online Resident Evil game for the future.