New Resident Evil? Or Capcom Farms Out Another Franchise

Via Kotaku, it seems that despite the loss of pro-globalization head of R&D Keiji Inafune Capcom is once again looking outside its own internal devs to bring one of its classic franchises to life.

Slant Six, developer of the first PS3 SOCOM game, Confrontation and several PSP outings are rumoured to be making a team-based Resident Evil title codenamed “Resident Evil: Raccoon City”. Of course when reached for comment, both studios are hush hush on the subject. So, let’s make a short list of outside developed Capcom games shall we:

1. Bionic Commando – Grin
2. Dead Rising 2 – Blue Castle Games (now Capcom Vancouver)
3. DMC: Devil May Cry - Ninja Theory
4. Asura’s Wrath – CyberConnect 2
5. Steel Batallion: Heavy Armor – From Software

Does Capcom even make their own games anymore? With the split off of platnium studios and the loss of Inafune, it seems they don’t really have any stable of talent left. While this is still nothing more than rumour, does the world really need another co-op Resident Evil? Outbreak was best forgotten and 5, while fun was certainly a flawed experience. Can we just get back to making a solo RE game and bring back the scares?

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