Resident Evil Announcement Teased By Capcom On Twitter
It looks like there is going to be some Resident Evil news on the way, according to a recent Tweet from Capcom. The famed Japanese survival horror franchise could be due for another entry relatively soon, as its release schedule has been packed over the past few years.
Resident Evil has been seeing something of a renaissance lately. Many fans of the franchise were disappointed following the release of Resident Evil 6 back in 2012, prompting Capcom to put the game on a five-year hiatus. After this break, the developer rolled out Resident Evil: Biohazard in 2017, which served as something of a soft reboot for the series, taking it back to its low-ammo, slow-paced, survival-horror roots while shaking things up by implementing a first-person perspective. This new direction for the franchise would continue in last year's Resident Evil Village, but not before Capcom rebuilt Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 from the ground-up, with reported plans to do the same with other earlier games in the series. The IP has also been rebooted on the film side of things via the recent Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
With so much going on already with this famous IP, fans might be surprised to learn that even more Resident Evil news is coming their way. According to a Tweet from the Resident Evil account, there is "some suspicious activity going on at the Resident Evil portal". The tweet goes on to cryptically state that there is "something going on" at 4 PM JST tomorrow. The post is accompanied by a screenshot of the Resident Evil portal with the message "COMING SOON...".
As might be expected with vague announcements of this type, speculation has been running rampant about what tomorrow's announcement might be. One commenter pointed out that the screenshot looked suspiciously similar to the options menu from Resident Evil 4, fueling the belief that tomorrow's event will have something to do with the remake of that game. It is important to point out that a Resident Evil 4 remake has yet to be confirmed by Capcom and that news surrounding this project has come mainly from leaks and general speculation based on the successful remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3.
Of course, the announcement that this Tweet is alluding to could end up being nothing of real note, like a next-gen port of the classic Resident Evil games or even just some sort of update; video game fans have overhyped this kind of message before, so any Capcom fans following this news should manage their expectations. Still, 2022 is shaping up to be quite a packed year for gaming, so Resident Evil will need to bring the big guns if it wants to make a major impact.
Source: Resident Evil/Twitter