Capcom has been slaying recently. With Resident Evil 3 Remake on the horizon, fans are really looking forward to how the franchise progresses in the coming generation of video games. Speaking of Resident Evil, the next installment in the franchise is in the works for 2021 according to the new rumor on Twitter.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released last week on Nintendo Switch and it has been the top-selling video game in the UK. With the COVID-19 global pandemic and social distancing being a real serious concern in the whole world, gamers taking advantage of the hangout feature in New Horizons and hosting surprise wedding and birthday parties.

The World Health Organization is recommending video games as a good way to stay socially active, but safe, during the coronavirus crisis.

The first project is a “AAA multi-platform game” already in pre-production, the company said on Thursday, while the second is a “smaller-scale” project set in the same franchise. Both projects are being developed on Remedy’s proprietary Northlight game engine and tools.

The world needs more mindless fun, and one of the perfect games for that in the early '00s was the multiplayer 2D shooter Soldat. Almost 20 years on, and perhaps in the most opportune time given how much everyone could use a break, a demo for the sequel is here....

A new job listing went live earlier this month at Bioware that suggests a comeback of one of Bioware’s most reputed franchises. The job position offered in this listing is Technical Director at Bioware, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Here’s what the job listing says...

And he wants your help to add buildings. 

It’s a question of when, not if

As the coronvirus crisis began escalating over the past several weeks, so did the idea that there was a toilet paper shortage. In many places around the world, customers are panic-buying and overstocking their homes with toilet paper, leaving store shelves mostly empty and furthering the idea that there was a genuine shortage.

A memo sent to workers says GameStop views themselves as "essential retail."

When Death Stranding launched last year, I thought, boy, this is a timely game. That, it was all an allegory for working at Amazon in some dystopian future. Maybe, but now, the game seems more relevant now than ever.

The PlayStation 5's operating system sounds like it's really going to prioritize speed and efficiency above all else, putting that high-speed SSD to very good use in the process. That's a far cry from the PlayStation 4's current dashboard, which almost instantly slows to a crawl as soon as you boot up a particularly intensive game. That'll hopefully be an annoyance of the past, however, as Kotaku's Jason Schreier has shared one of Sony's pitches to developers as it attempts to turn playing a PS5 game into something "as easy as Netflix".

On a tense weekend when many people might be staying home instead of going out in public, Steam has shattered its previous record for concurrent players.

DOOM Eternal broke the franchise record for opening weekend sales with double the launch revenue of the 2016-released DOOM, publisher Bethesda Softworks and developer id Software announced. It was also the best selling game on Steam for its release week, surpassing 100,000 concurrent players on the platform. DOOM Eternal launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, …

The PC version of Mortal Kombat 4, which first launched in physical form in June 1998, is now available via GOG for $5.99. Here is an overview of the game, via its GOG page: A New Dimension of Kombat Shao Kahn has been defeated at the hands of Earth’s warriors, and now Shinnok has escaped …

Doom Eternal is not true 4K on Google Stadia, developer id Software has confirmed. Rather, the blistering first-person shooter runs at 1080p and 60 frames per second on HD displays, and up-samples to 2160p from 1800p at 60 frames per second on 4K displays.

Square Enix has released the “Final” trailer for Trials of Mana, as well as announced it will release a demo for the game for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam on March 18. The demo will allow users to play the beginning of the game, from when the protagonist meets the party members they choose to adventure with, to the Fullmetal Hugger boss battle. Players will be able to freely choose their party combination, as well as carry their save data over to the full game when it launches.

Half-Life: Alyx is out today, it's a great VR game and a great Half-Life game, and perhaps best of all we don't have to stop joking about "Half-Life 3 confirmed!" because neither that nor the semi-sequel-ish Half-Life 2: Episode Three are still nowhere in sight. In an interview with IGN, level designer Dario Casali explained why, after 13 years, a proper Half-Life sequel still hasn't happened.

One Friday night last month, some artists at the video game studio Naughty Dog were working on their latest game when they heard a crash. A large metal pipe had fallen from above them and landed right next to their desks. If it had dropped a few feet closer, the consequences might have been dire. It was late, past 9 p.m., and the construction workers above had perhaps recklessly assumed that nobody was there. But at Naughty Dog, people were always there.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Nintendo to preemptively release the much-anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons. “We must prepare for this disease in an unprecedented way,” Senator Sanders said at a press conference. “Gamers of all classes, both social and character, shouldn’t be forced to wait any longer for an adorable little game that is ready now. We deserve access immediately. People are suffering. It shouldn’t just be gaming journalists that have early access to what may be the best game out there.”