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You Like Resident Evil, eh? How About All the Resident Evil in the World!

Posted by John Constantine



After one last cold snap here in good ol’ NYC, spring is finally in the air. Yesterday had itself a brutal chill, but today, it’s been nice and mild. Spring is full of all kinds of great stuff. A young man’s fancy turns to love, flowers bloom, it rains a lot, and every last one of us post-industrialized humans have horrific allergy outbreaks because we’ve never lived lives that necessitate a hearty immune system. Modern living rocks. Spring is also the season for rumors! The fiscal year is just about to end and all kinds of precious secrets are starting to ooze out of corporate orifices like nobody’s business. Yesterday, it was Pandemic taking over Star Wars: Battlefront III. Today, its Resident Evil: Code Veronica on Wii.

Let’s dive headlong down the internet rabbit hole, shall we? First, Capcom’s product manager Mark Dahlgren tells Game Focus that fans of Code Veronica should pay attention to the news on March 12th. Look for an announcement that they’ll be “very pleased with,” he said. Dahlgren then stoked more flames in an interview with Joystiq and said that Wii fans will be “very happy, very soon.” Then Kotaku wrote about it. Then I wrote about it. Like a hack.

Seems a little silly, really. I mean, you can already play Code Veronica on Wii. Just go online, type “Code Veronica Gamecube” into Google and, provided you have forty dollars and a little patience, you’re good to go. You can play every Resident Evil worth playing on Wii, dag nab it. Bunch of jerks, that’s what you are, Capcom.

Ugh. I apologize, dear reader. This was not post worthy. This is rumor mongering trash you can get all over the net. I just wanted to write that headline. It mixes Resident Evil with Simpsons quotes and I love both of those things. I’ll make it up to you, I swear.

Related links:

Resident Evil Arguments that Need to Die
Resident Evil 5: Continuing on the Transformation Trail From Horror to Suspense
Games to Film to Games to Film: Resident Evil Degeneration
Once More Into the Breach: A Final Peek at Resident Evil 5


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