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The launch of Monster Hunter World earlier this year finally gave the franchise a solid position in the west. The game attracted millions of new players and has already become one of Capcom's fastest selling games ever. So what's the next step? Well like Resident Evil, Monster Hunter will be …

Last year at E3, Capcom made a big splash with its announcement of Monster Hunter: World. The game has typically been seen as something of a cult classic, but with this entry to the series, the publisher wanted to push it into the mainstream and so far, it appears to …

Over the last few years, Capcom has been working on bringing back the Dead Rising franchise. Dead Rising 3 was an Xbox One launch title, Dead Rising 4 was a return to the series' roots and now, Dead Rising 5 seems to be on the way. Unfortunately, it looks like …

Last Friday, Monster Hunter World officially landed on consoles and so far, it looks like Capcom's big push to get the series noticed in the West has paid off. The UK games chart numbers are in for last week, with Monster Hunter beating out all other releases. Chart-Track observed much …

Capcom has been quiet when it comes to Devil May Cry for a few years now. However, it looks like 2018 might be the year that the franchise gets thrown back into the spotlight. According to an apparent leak this week, Hideaki Itsuno, the director of DMC 2, 3, 4, …

The Resident Evil franchise is looking to make a big return in 2017 with the launch of Resident Evil VII in January and while many PS4 players have already had the chance to test out a slice of the game, PC players can now join them. The demo is available on …

Despite efforts by some of the more well known tube pornography websites to legitimise themselves as mainstream companies, Esports organisations are doing their best to push back on that narrative. Following a ban of Youporn's pro team from the ESL competition, the same has happened with Capcom's Pro Tour. Although the ESL …

While many play fighting games for the skill aspect, some do enjoy the story and Street Fighter 5 is set to have the most substantial story mode in the series' history. However, it won't be there on day one. Street Fighter V, which comes out towards the middle of next …

With Blizzcon 2015 having taken place this weekend, there's been a lot of Blizzard-centric gameplay trailers and teasers released about upcoming content, but that doesn't mean all other developers have dropped tools and taken a break. Indeed Capcom took the bold move this weekend of releasing trailers for one of its own upcoming …

Capcom has announced that three years after its initial release, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will finally be hitting the PC some time in January next year. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was actually a pretty positively received game, which launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in April 2013. …

Capcom has announced that three years after its initial release, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will finally be hitting the PC some time in January next year. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was actually a pretty positively received game, which launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in April 2013. …

A few weeks back, Capcom kicked off the street Fighter V beta. Unfortunately, it had some immediate issues that stopped many from actually being able to launch the game. As a result, the dev team took the beta build back behind closed doors, spent a few weeks fixing it up …

Earlier this year, Capcom launched Resident Evil HD, which quickly went on to become the company's fastest selling digital title ever. Following its positive reception, people were also asking Capcom to bring us a Resident Evil 2 HD release, which has now been approved. Developer, Yoshiaki Hirabyashi, who lead the …

Well things aren't off to a great start for Capcom with the Street Fighter V beta as it has suffered numerous issues since its launch last night. The game's servers were then taken offline around an hour after players starting getting in to the PS4 beta and we aren't really …

Street Fighter V was announced sometime last year as a PlayStation 4 console exclusive, although the game will be coming to the PC as well. While at the time it wasn't clear whether or not the PS4 would have timed exclusivity over the Xbox One, Capcom has now shed some …

Despite the fact that it features giant dragons, talking cats and matter cloning pickaxes, the Monster Hunter series of games is relatively serious. It's unforgiving for newer players, has a deep and complicated system of augmenting your character and requires you to literally cut parts from your fallen enemies to …

The Resident Evil HD Remaster launched at the end of last month for the PC, Xbox One, PS4 and last generation consoles and it has since gone on to become Capcom's fastest selling digital title in just under three weeks. Capcom announced today that Resident Evil HD has become its …

Fans of the Resident Evil series have been asking for a remake of the second game for some time now but Capcom has repeatedly focussed on updating the original game. However, one series fan went ahead and remade the second game himself, using Unreal Engine 3. A walkthrough of the …

Street Fighter V may only be 20 per cent through its development cycle at present but that isn't stopping the producers behind the game from hyping up its Unreal Engine 4 powered graphical fidelity. The title was announced earlier this month as a PS4 and PC exclusive, a change of …

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 producer, Michiteru Okabe, has expressed his excitement surrounding virtual reality headsets and what they can do for horror titles. While virtual reality technology is still in development and has some way to go,  game companies are already eager to make games for VR headsets and Oculus …

Last week, Hideo Kojima teased a new ‘Metal Gear Collection' for release this year, most gamers were expecting an updated HD collection of past titles for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Unfortunately, what we actually got was wildly different, the Metal Gear Collection 2014 is actually just a fashion …

Capcom will be bringing Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, over to Steamworks early next year. The three games currently reside on Microsoft's widely unpopular Games for Windows Live service. The publisher said that the move has come around due to fan demand: …

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, has a load of new information and images about the upcoming Monster Hunter 4G, the “ultimate,” version of Monster Hunter 4, much in the same way that the Wii U Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate, was an improved version of the Wii's edition. While we don't have …

The Monster Hunter series is like a light-hearted Dark Souls. It features huge enemies to face off against, in long, drawn out battles of attrition where you fight to see which goes down first, the monster's (invisible) health bar, or your number of health potions. Beyond pointing you at the …

It is now possible to buy Capcom as the publisher's current investors have voted to abandon the company's takeover protection plan. The protection plan was first implemented back in 2008 and has been consistently renewed since then, until now. A rigorous approval process was put in place to stop any …

If you were looking forward to playing Dead Rising 3 on PC at a nice smooth 60 frames per second then you are going to be disappointed as Capcom has “optimised” the game for 30 frames per second and warns that unlocking the frame rate could break the game. Dead …

Gaming streaming firm Twitch and developer/publisher Capcom have bro-fisted and high-fived their way through negotiations and struck up a deal that will see Street Fighter fans competing throughout the rest of the year and beyond, in a new competitive, professional league, known as the Capcom Pro Tour. Working in a …

Last week it was revealed that Resident Evil's famous deaf composer, Mamoru Samuragoch, ‘Japan's Beethoven' isn't actually deaf and it turns out that Capcom may have known about this for some time. Over the last 18 years, Samuragoch has used a ghost writer, a music professor named Takashi Niigaki. The composer was completely …

Monster Hunter fans outside of the Asian markets have been screwed out of a lot of the series' best games. While the handheld entries always seem to make it to this part of the world, home console releases are few and far between and ultimately, the only two you can …

Monster Hunter fans in the west don't get much in the way of love from Capcom when it comes to the new releases in the series. We're not getting a look in with the Chinese Cryengine PC version, Monster Hunter Online, and it's taken untill now for the developer to …