Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

Above: A trailer for the Wii original

When it became clear the Wii wasn’t the graphics workhorse of its rivals, some enterprising publishers decided to try and sidestep the issue by making light gun, on-rails shooters for their franchises. Wii players were got House of the Dead: Overkill, Dead Space Extraction and the Resident Evil Chronicles games which were me with moderate success at best. Now RE is following those other M-rated shooters to the PS3 after Capcom revealed plans to port both Wii titles to the PS3 in one arcade bundle...

The formerly Wii Exclusive on-rail shooters Resident Evil: The Dakrside Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles will get the HD Port treatment and will be released on the PS3 as Biohazard Chronicles HD. The two title will fully support the PlayStation Move.

HellDescent writes: Capcom has always been known for putting in some bonus modes and treats to liven up their games after completion and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles follows that tradition. We have 2 videos here that show of some of the bonuses we can expect to see in this title.

Infatuated Gamer: As part of their Deal of the Day promotion, Amazon is discounting Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii to $15.98.

HellDescent writes: The 4th Resident Evil film has officially been confirmed by Screen Gems and Constantine Films. Milla Jovavich is returning as Alice, Ali Larter as Clair Redfield, Spencer Locke as K-Mart, Wentworth Miller as Chris Redfield and Albert Wesker will be now played by Shawn Roberts. The full 3D film is set to begin filming in Toronto very soon.

Hell Descent writes: Paul W.S. Anderson's next Resident Evil film will not be releasing in September as previously stated, but a little earlier on August 27th. Apparently Anderson who is both the writer and director has been researching nearly every 3D film to hit the big screen to be ready for his first foray into the 3rd dimension of cinema. Our guess is that he needs to find some ways to incorporate 3D scenes without forcing them. Since Afterlife is supposed to be a reboot, we'll just pretend Extinction never happen and pray this film stays at least a mile from the source material.

Paul W.S. Anderson tells Shock Till You Drop that Resident Evil: Afterlife will be his 4th RE film, but not a sequel. Instead the series will be revamped and start as a whole new trilogy. Afterlife will have a bigger budget than the previous films and will see the return of old characters and new ones. The film will also be joining that whole 3D fad that decided to rear its head up from the 70's. I always envisioned Resident Evil as a trilogy of films, he said. And we've been very lucky where it's a trilogy where the audience has built and built. I wanted to kick off a brand new trilogy. I'm really excited we're doing it [in 3-D] and we're using the same camera system [James] Cameron used for Avatar. There are a lot of exciting things about this one. I don't regard it as Resident Evil 4, I regard it as a re-tooling and rebirth of the entire franchise. Our guess is that Paul will take the Fast And Furious approach; by having a film that ignores previous events and rewrites the series history. This is good news for die hard Resident Evil fans. Maybe, just maybe we can have a RE film that doesn't stray so far from the source material. We're looking at you Extinction.

Producer Jun Takeuchi has said he'd like to see the Resident Evil series rebooted after Dark Chronicles.

The sequel to 2007 rail-shooter Umbrella Chronicles it follows up to the RE 2 story. RE:DC will be different with a possible online multiplayer. Players can play with online or with a friend at home. There's no official word that it is going to have online multiplayer but, there will be some kind of online feature. Other than the online the game seems to be more promising. Unlike the the previous game, you can now carry health items and the d-pad will work to switch among your weapons like the same feature on RE 5. The game will follow up in to the RE 2 story along with a new scenario with Leon in South American. This does seem like one hell of a game. Fans no doubt will enjoy this new installment into the series. The game will be released exclusively for the Wii in winter 2009

Information regarding characters & chapter segments from Capocom's latest Resident Evil game, The Darkside Chronicles which is still in development for the Nintendo Wii console has been leaked on several gaming and Biohazard forums. The spoilers list every character that will be playable in the game and also hint at events that take place after the recently released Biohazard/Resident Evil 5. Capcom has requested that Gametrailers & Gamefaqs removed the detailed spoilers. But it's still floating around out there on some sites.