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'The model we're under, the big retail model, is creaking'

Ubisoft’s The Smurfs & Co has become the fastest-growing Facebook game in the past two weeks, picking up 4.1m monthly active users. The town-building adventure game went live on July 29th and is currently the No.1 licence-based social game in the world, according to AppData. The Smurfs & Co will …

GAMESCOM: New gameplay trailers have been released for a pair of the console sector’s hottest new titles. DMC is Capcom’s re-imagining of its popular Devil may Cry series. Development has been shifted out of Japan and handed over to Heavenly Sword and Enslaved developer Ninja Theory. Ghost Recon Future Soldier …

MCV is celebrating 15 years of Resident Evil with special retrospectives on the franchise. Paul WS Anderson, the Hollywood movie director behind the Resident Evil films, gives us his thoughts on the franchise, and explains why he has deviated from the plot of the games. He also gives us his …

MCV speaks to the people behind the hit horror series Shinji Mikami and his team redefined the survival horror genre when they developed Biohazard – aka, Resident Evil – in 1996. Not that anyone expected it at the time. Resident Evil was loosely based on a niche Japanese-only 1989 Famicom …

The horror stories that have made up the iconic Resident Evil series From Game Boy Color to iPhone, through Sega Saturn to Game.com, Resident Evil has built a reputation on almost every console released since 1996 (with the very notable exceptions of PSP, GBA and Xbox) There has been 64 …

Love or loathe it, the Resident Evil movie franchise is a rare example of a video game series that’s actually made a name for itself in Hollywood. It has succeeded where Prince of Persia, Doom, Tomb Raider and countless others have failed. It is the exception that proves the rule, …

Japanese publisher Capcom has reported a drop in sales for the quarter ending June 30th. Net sales fell 37.2 per cent to 11,953m. Operating income fell 22.9 per cent to 775m, though ordinary income was up 152.8 per cent at 546m. Net income climbed 58.2 per cent to 338m. Capcom …

Capcom has confirmed that its upcoming Resident Evil remakes RE4 and Code Veronica X will get a retail release alongside their digital releases. Furthermore, both games have now been given a North American release date, with RE4 arriving on September 20th and Code Veronica landing on September 27th. The pair …

Capcom has announced an expanded and updated version of extravagant brawler Marvel vs Capcom 3. Called Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, it includes a total of 12 new characters spread across the two universes, meaning a total of 50 characters will be included on the disc. Online functionality and overall …