Capcom releases Monster Hunter Wilds next year, with fans catching glimpses of it at May’s State of Play and last week’s Summer Game Fest. Director Yuya Tokuda, joined by Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and Executive Director Kaname Fujioka, talked more about it in a recent interview. Tokuda discussed Monster Hunter Wild’s gameplay, including the new Focus Mode and wounds mechanics.

What makes Monster Hunter Wilds gameplay different?

Wounds and Focus Mode are two new features introduced to Monster Hunter Wilds’ gameplay and the systems go hand in hand. As Tokuda explained to the PlayStation Blog, “Attacking the monster naturally causes damage or wounds to happen. As long as you’re attacking the wounds, you’ll be doing more damage to the monster.” Entering focus mode highlights wounds and unlocks abilities that do bonus damage to wounds.

However, Focus Mode does a lot more than that. “The real merit of Focus Mode,” said Tokuda, “is to help players in their positioning and their distancing from monsters, so that even players who are maybe not as experienced with action games, or games similar to Monster Hunter, have an easier time honing in their attacks.”

Earlier in the interview, Tokuda said a few words about the effects of the environments on Monster Hunter Wilds’ gameplay. “One of the big things about Wilds is that the environments themselves are so much more dynamic and adaptable,” he said. “Things are changing so often, and even the monsters that are available to hunt can change moment to moment.” Capcom wants players to be able to respond to these dynamic changes. This is why, unlike in previous games, Monster Hunter Wilds players can switch between weapons during gameplay.

Another change with Monster Hunter Wilds gameplay is making monsters easier to reach, something some players had trouble with in previous games. Capcom also hopes the new Seikret mounts will make navigation a bit easier.

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Capcom has revealed that Resident Evil Village has passed a major sales milestone and broke a series record in reaching it.

Resident Evil Village makes series history

Since its release in 2021, the game has topped 10 million sales globally, which makes it the fastest title in the series to reach that number. It’s the eighth mainline title.

As of March 2024, the Resident Evil franchise has sold more than 152 million copies worldwide. After a critical slump, the series was boosted by the success of Resident Evil 7. That game has sold almost 14 million copies to date, matched by the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake.

For context, Resident Evil 7 still hadn’t hit 10 million sales by the time the eighth game came out, a four-year gap to Village’s three.

Resident Evil Village joined the Capcom Platinum Club shortly after its release. The award goes to any Capcom title that hits a million sales.

DLC, a repackaged Gold Edition, and ports to more hardware have bolstered the game over the years. It’s also on PSVR 2 in its entirety. It sees the continuation of Ethan Winters’ story as he heads into deadly new territory and faces off against a selection of freakish monstrosities.

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Capcom is reportedly working on remakes of Resident Evil: Zero and Resident Evil: Code Veronica. However, the new game’s release date is unclear, and Capcom hasn’t commented on the leak.

Resident Evil: Zero and Code Veronica Remakes leaked

Capcom has already released remakes of the first four Resident Evil games and announced in December that it plans to release more. However, the company didn’t reveal which games will be next. That news came from a leak by Twitter user Dusk Golem, who revealed the RE: Zero and Code Veronica remakes were in development. The story was later corroborated by IGN.

Released for the Sega Dreamcast in 2000, Code Veronica takes place a few months after Resident Evil 2. The game sees Clair Redfield captured by the Umbrella Corporation and taken to a prison on a remote island near Antarctica. She must survive an outbreak of the zombifying T-virus while her brother Chris attempts to rescue her.

Meanwhile, 2002’s Resident Evil: Zero is a prequel set a few days before the original game’s events. The game sees rookie STARS officer Rebecca Chambers stranded in the Arklay Mountains following a helicopter crash. After stumbling across a zombie-infested train, Chambers teams up with escaped convict Billy Coen to explore a nearby Umbrella Corporation facility. A former Marine Force Reconnaissance officer, Billy has a better defense and can lift objects more easily. However, only Rebecca can create items by mixing herbs and chemicals. The game lets players switch freely between characters during many sequences, and doing so is central to many puzzles.

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Fresh off joining Capcom’s Platinum club, there’s a new Dragon’s Dogma 2 sales milestone reached for the action RPG adventure.

Three is the magic number for Dragon’s Dogma 2 sales milestone

Having racked up over 2.5 million copies sold in its first week of release, the game has slowed to a steadier crawl in the last two months. But Capcom has confirmed Dragon’s Dogma 2 has passed the 3 million copies sold milestone.

Roughly speaking, that now puts the game at about 36th on Capcom’s all-time best-sellers list. It sells as many copies as the PS3-era version of Devil May Cry 4 and DmC Devil May. It’s just beyond the original Resident Evil and closing in on Street Fighter 6, which has sold around 3.3 million.

It’s already outperforming its predecessor after garnering rave reviews. It did suffer a bit of post-launch backlash after Capcom added a selection of microtransactions on launch day. Capcom stated all microtransactions were just as easily obtainable in-game. It’s a practice the company has, in fairness, been doing for a while. Resident Evil games usually come with microtransactions for in-game unlockables.

In the quickly-shifting world of online opinion, it’s likely the needless controversy (coupled with Denuvo on PC) didn’t help Dragon’s Dogma 2 in reaching this sales milestone sooner. But hey, it’s not bad for the sequel to a massively underplayed game

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Capcom has unveiled its updated list of Platinum tiles, and Dragon’s Dogma 2 has joined the party as Monster Hunter World hits a new milestone.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 Off to a Good Start

Platinum titles are any Capcom titles that hit a million sales, and understandably, recent years have been dominated by Resident Evil and Monster Hunter. However, after the struggles of the original Dragon’s Dogma, it’s great to see that in the latest figures, Dragon’s Dogma 2 has entered the room with 2.6 million units sold between March 22 and March 31, 2024.

That already puts it 45th on Capcom’s all-time list, ahead of the original Devil May Cry and Dino Crisis, level with Resident Evil Revelations, and just behind Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City.

Monster Hunter World continues to dominate as the best-selling Capcom title. The base game has sold 20.1 million units, with the Iceborne Master Edition taking the total to 25.3 million. Monster Hunter Rise sits pretty in the second spot with 14.7 million. Resident Evil 2 remake and Resident 7 sit just below 13.9 and 13.3 million units sold, respectively.

You can view the top 50 Capcom Platinum titles below.

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Insiders seem to be at loggerheads over the recent rumors of Resident Evil 1 remake. Last week, two separate reports emerged that Capcom was planning a third outing of the 1996 PS1 game. This past weekend, yet another report emerged with similar claims. However, known horror genre and Capcom insider Dusk Golem reckons it’s all nonsense.

Resident Evil 1 remake was previously rumored to release in 2026

This past weekend’s report came from the horror centric X account, BioDeclassified. They claimed to have received an email detailing Capcom’s plans for the RE1 remake. A number of websites picked up on the report along with a fake screenshot that purported to show Dusk Golem corroborating the rumor on X. However, Dusk Golem clarified that they never tweeted anything about the supposed RE1 remake, and don’t think it’s true either.

Considering BioDeclassified’s report is purely based on an “anonymous email,” we find it hard to believe it’s authentic. But stranger things have happened in the world of leaks, like random 4Chan accounts leaking games accurately.

That said, Capcom has said that it does have plans for more Resident Evil remakes following recent success, so we certainly haven’t seen the end of them.

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Summer Game Fest has revealed the publishers and studios appearing at the June 7 event. 55 partners are participating, including big names like Sony and Xbox and smaller players like Devolver Digital and Anapurna Interactive.

Summer Game Fest 2024 confirms 55 partners

Summer Game Fest revealed the list of Round 1 2024 partners on Thursday. In addition to Xbox and PlayStation, major publishers include Ubisoft, EA, Sega, Epic, Bandai Namco, Capcom, 2K, and WB Games. Amazon Games and Nefilx Games will also make a showing, as will companies including Focus Entertainment, Funcom, Plaion, Deep Silver, and Niantic. Other parties include Steam, Meta, and Samsung, though it’s unclear to what extent they will directly participate in the events.

A complete list of all 55 confirmed Summer Game Fest 2024 partners is below:

Launched as a digital-only event in 2021, Summer Game Fest has filled the gap left behind by E3’s shutdown. The main 2024 event goes live from YouTube Theater in LA at 2:00 PM Pacific/5:00 PM Eastern on June 7. It’s followed by the Wholesome Direct indie game showcase, Latin American Games Showcase, and Women-Led Games showcase on June 8. Finally, the Xbox Games Showcase and PC Gaming Show air on June 9.

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Rumors emerged over the weekend that Resident Evil 1 remake is in the works at Capcom, with at least one of the reports coming from a known insider. The 1996 PS1 game received a Nintendo GameCube remake in 2002, and an HD remaster in 2015 for the PS3 and PS4 alongside other platforms. If rumors are to be believed, Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine are set to be re-introduced once again.

Resident Evil 1 remake release date window possibly leaked

Rumor of the RE1 remake first came from an Arab Resident Evil community that goes by PRE_Alarabiya on X. The report was corroborated by DanielRPK (via Reddit), who has a pretty good track record. No further information was revealed but according to PRE_Alarabiya, RE1 remake will release sometime in 2026.

2026 will mark the Resident Evil series’ 30th anniversary (yes, you’re that old). In December 2023, Capcom said that it has plans for more Resident Evil remakes following the success of RE2, 3, and 4 remakes. The publisher said that it wants to bring the older games to a modern audience.

PRE_Alarabiya also claimed in a separate tweet that Leon Kennedy is the main protagonist of the upcoming Resident Evil 9.

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Dusk Golem has revealed that the Resident Evil 9 setting could well see the series heading back to Asia.

Resident Evil 9 setting ditching West for East?

According to Dusk Golem, who has been a fairly reliable source of information with Resident Evil, the Resident Evil 9 setting will take its open-world style in a sensible direction by limiting it to a rural Southeast Asian island. As with previous games, the location itself will be fictional.

While Golem cites that the inspiration for the island of the Resident Evil 9 setting is based on Singapore, that would likely be an aesthetic one rather than a geographically accurate one, with Southeast Asian locales such as Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia more in keeping with a rural island setting.

This news comes as a follow-up to Golem allaying fears that Resident Evil 9 had been internally delayed, which was not the case.

Whatever the Resident Evil 9 setting may be, it’ll likely be the most ambitious Resident Evil yet, with an open world design similar to stablemates Dragon’s Dogma 2 and the upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds.

Away from the continuation of the mainline series, Capcom recently said it will continue to produce Resident Evil remakes following the massive financial and critical success of its previous three attempts (Resident Evil 2-4). It hasn’t revealed which game will get the remake treatment next, but fans are split between Resident Evil Code Veronica and Resident Evil 5.

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A known insider has claimed that Resident Evil 9 release date isn’t too far off, and the game will be revealed “pretty soon.” It was recently reported that Resident Evil 9 may have been delayed internally, but that claim has since been walked back on.

Resident Evil 9 reveal and release date news speculated at PlayStation Showcase

The insider in question is none other than Dusk Golem, who took to X to ask followers to ignore rumblings of a delay. “RE9 should be revealed pretty soon and release next year,” Dusk Golem said. “If what I heard previously holds true, should be in January. It’ll have had about seven years in development.”

January 2025 seems to be a safe guess considering it falls in line with Capcom’s release pattern. However, things can change during the course of development, so take this rumor with a grain of salt until official confirmation.

Speaking of official confirmation, there’s some speculation that Resident Evil 9 might be revealed at the rumored PlayStation Showcase that’s supposedly happening within the month. Capcom has previously announced Resident Evil games at PlayStation events so we wouldn’t be surprised if this does happen.

That said, Sony has plenty to address as it is in its next PlayStation Showcase, including the PS5 Pro.

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