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Capcom is giving Resident Evil fans that chance to star on the cover of this month’s console release of Revelations. A new Facebook app called Face on Board will launch tomorrow and allow users to personalise the box art with their own photos, either taken from their Facebook account or …

Capcom has confirmed that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies will not be released physically in Europe or North America. Historically it’s been tough to attract long term retail support for Ace Attorney titles,” a rep stated on the Capcom forums. With the release of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney …

Publisher reiterates plans to move development in-house as it looks to cut costs

Developing titles for PS4 and the new Xbox will be significantly more expensive than current-gen programming, according to Capcom. The result, it has told investors, is that release schedules – which are already experiencing quite severe levels of drought – are liable to become even leaner in the future. Even …

Following the profits warning issued last month, today’s financial report from Capcom was never going to be pretty. The Japanese publisher registered a net income of 3bn for the last financial year, almost exactly in line with the modified forecast it released in April. That’s still a profit, of course, …

Dead Island: Riptide defied the critics by becoming the UK’s best selling video game this week. Despite some dodgy reviews, the game was comfortably the best seller, although it only managed half the sales of the original. The first game was a big hit for publisher Deep Silver following what …

Developer Spark Unlimited has come in for criticism from the publisher that employed it to make Lost Planet 3. Spark was named as the game’s developer a year ago – a surprise to many seeing as two of its recent titles, Legendary: The Box and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, …

Capcom has teased a reveal for something regarding Okami. IGN points to a post on the franchise’s official Japanese Twitter account, translating to: "Hello, this is Okami news. Sorry I’ve been kind of out of touch lately, but I have the feeling we’ll be able to drop a fresh announcement …

Profits for the current financial year will be about half of what was initially forecast, Capcom has warned. This is in part due to expenses associated with a freshly announced company-wide restructure. That was far from the only factor, however. The company also blamed drastic changes in the industry’s market …

Publisher points to 'excessive' outsourcing as reason for decline in quality in some releases