Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem has quietly added a fully-featured roguelike bonus mode. The update includes multiple environmental paths, on-the-fly ability enhancements, new enemy variants, boss fights, and a meta-progression system.
Capcom data shows 90% of Resident Evil Requiem players stuck with third-person for Leon's sections, while Grace's horror segments were more split at 60% first-person, 40% third-person.
Capcom raised FY2026 net profit guidance from ¥51,000 million to ¥54,500 million on April 27, a 6.9% increase. The company credited Resident Evil Requiem and stronger catalog sales, and it also lifted the full-year dividend forecast to ¥45 per share.
Kotaku reported Apr 15 that Capcom legal asked YouTuber GrizzoUK to remove adult-oriented Resident Evil mod videos, and the channel was briefly terminated before YouTube reinstated it. The r/Games post had 735 points and 229 comments at crawl time.
UnGeek reports that Resident Evil Requiem has reached a 70% completion rate on Steam and 66.9% on PS5 a little over a month after launch. Based on story-clear achievement and trophy data, the result stands out even among recent AAA horror releases.
r/Games surfaced a notable PC back-catalog move: the original Resident Evil trilogy on PC and Breath of Fire IV are now on Steam, bringing older Capcom releases into the platform with updated rendering, localization, and quality-of-life work tied to the earlier GOG versions.
Capcom says a new Resident Evil Requiem patch is live with Photo Mode, bug fixes, localization fixes, scene expression tweaks, and PC-specific crash and GPU driver fixes.
Capcom says Resident Evil Requiem has exceeded 6 million units worldwide less than three weeks after launch, the fastest pace in series history, with more content still ahead.
A high traction r/pcgaming post shared reporting that Capcom now gets 50% of its game sales from Windows PC. The source metadata also points to further PC share growth and strong Steam performance tied to Resident Evil Requiem.
The voice actor behind Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil says AI will never replace authentic human performances. He also argues that for major titles like Arc Raiders, the cost of hiring a real voice actor is insignificant relative to overall budgets.
Capcom has removed the controversial Enigma DRM from Resident Evil 4 Remake, confirmed via SteamDB. The DRM had been added to the two-year-old title and was widely criticized as an unusual and unnecessary decision.
A games journalist who was set to review Resident Evil 9 for Videogamer.com has publicly spoken out after being replaced by AI, sparking broader discussion about artificial intelligence displacing human writers in games media.