Capcom has again reinvented survival horror. Forget about Resident Evil 4—they’re coming up with something even bigger and scarier. The adult diapers industry must love them for it.

It’s Resident Evil 5 folks, and the new screenshots alone is enough to make you see the entire genre differently. Consider the old survival-horror conventions that we’re all used to: creepy haunted houses, moaning zombies, tank controls, and dark places, among others.

In Resident Evil 4, Capcom made the tank controls obsolete and put in a new scheme that propelled the game to overnight immortality. This may be a tough act to …read more

As you may have heard, Resident Evil 5 is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The details about the survival horror game’s next chapter of were a bit sparse, at least until Famitsu gave us some more lip-smacking details.

But wait, let’s not get too eager, folks. According to Jun Takeuchi, the game’s producer, this installment might come out as late as 2009.

The magazine revealed that Resident Evil 5 will be using a perspective similar to that of Resident Evil 4. Why change a good thing? The third-person shooter-esque model used by RE4 changed the franchise’s direction …read more