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Whoa, more than one year is not “very soon” in my opinion but here I am! The controversial anime that took “fish-eye” camera and extreme angles. . .well. . .to the extreme! Here in Hinamizawa you will enjoy enjoy your stay; with all the fascinating scenery, interesting people, and the constant repetition of the same week-long timeline for more than 40 episodes you’ll surely be entertained!

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Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Season 1 and Season 2 - An Overall Review -

A new Resident Evil 5 trailer has just been released to the public from Captivate ‘08. The trailer features more gameplay than we’ve seen so far, lots of mob action with some really complex crowds. Its good to see the old chainsaw back although I’m not sure what to thing of the continuation of the action prompts. This seems like a much more complex game than what he had seen before.

We also finally discover who the mysterious female character from the latest screenshots was, apparently an African agent of some kind. It’s very clear in the trailer that Chris Redfield will be facing the same virus that appeared in Resident Evil 4. From a previous interview with Jun Takeuchi we now know that this game will focus on what has happened to Chris this last 10 years as well as the origin of this virus and its connection to what’s left of Umbrella, if anything.I think I’m officially hyped, are you hyped? I’m hyped!

The latest issue of famitsu comes loaded with some new images from Resident Evil 5. Image captions and information don’t reveal much except that light mechanics, where moving from a light to dark area and viceversa will play a much more important role than previously hinted at. There is also some talk about previous enemies making a comeback, such as the nosferatu from Code Veronica.

Who’s the girl in the red dress? Could it be you-know-who?

[Dark Zero]

A Chinese forum recently obtained some leaked shots from the Blood: The Last Vampire movie set. These images are all of high quality leading us to believe that they were perhaps meant for future magazine or online publication. Overall the film is looking quite good and looking at Giana Jun in full Saya attire is giving me hopes for this film. You should proceed with caution though as the photos may provide spoilers to the plot of the movie.

[QxWar / Via ANN]

Dear readers, I know we’ve seen ridiculous Hello Kitty products before, unsettling ones, bizarre ones, but I think this will be the first time we truly see a creepy one. Brace for impact!

These are the hello Kitty Contacts, a work of perfect evil. The people at Sanrio have finally figured out how to make you see hello kitty in everyone’s face. I seriously pity the guy who has to date a girl like this, instead of looking deep into her eyes and see into his own soul through her, he now sees the Mouthless One staring forever at him, thrusting his soul into the deepest, darkest, cutest abyss.

[Hello Kitty Hell]

Capcom has begun publishing a manga titled Biohazard: The Umbrella Chronicles: Prelude to the Collapse (can we get: more colons: here: please?) which ties in with the Wii’s Umbrella Chronicles game. The manga only spans two issues and its pretty much a recap of the events that led to the fall of umbrella featuring Chris and Jill. So this is pretty much a nice lead into the game and might be great for all those people who started playing Resident Evil with RE:4. The first issue went on sale this week on Japan’s Shonen Champion magazine. Expect scanlations soon, no news on bringing said manga stateside.

[ANN]

It’s been a while  since I had craved for even one more episode of any anime series, for example, Trigun, Azumanga, or Escalayer, and this time, it’s the same feeling. Mononoke amazes us with excellent storytelling, superb storyboards and a nice BGM; all this suited excellently to the horror genre. Lotsa surprises after the jump!

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Mononoke - An Overall Review -

For those still recovering from the disappointment that was the latest Resident Evil flick and those of you simply craving as much Resident Evil as Capcom can shove down your throat, we’ve got great news.

Two days ago Capcom and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan announced the production of Biohazard: Degeneration, a CG anime film based on the Biohazard (Resident Evil) universe set for release on 2008. No more details are available besides this very info and the image above. Hoever the possibilities of it actually being based on the Resident Evil game timeline and canon are much higher than with the live action films, and seriously, it simply cannot be worse than RE: Apocalypse.

[Capcom Japan]

Capcom released a new Resident Evil 5 trailer this past days at E3, not much is revealed about the plot except the game takes place on some sort of African village, there’s no zombies on sight but a bunch of militia and angry townspeople.

The game looks impressive with very detailed environments which goes hand in hand with the firm statement and final proof that RE:5 wont be gracing the Wii any time soon.

As Luminous Path reported earlier this week, Capcom is releasing a port of Resident Evil 4 for the Wii, which will be released this summer followed closely by the Wii exclusive title Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. Well Capcom is being quite generous with the media this week as Jeux France has published a gallery with tons of screens from both games.

The graphics of Umbrella Chronicles look up to par with Resident Evil 4 but that’s also to say that both games have Gamecube era graphics. Check out some of the images above and click through to Jeux France for the complete gallery. 

Thanks Tim87!

[Jeux France]

At last, after a small delay, the trailer for the third Hellsing OVA episode is here.

For Hellsing conosieurs, this episode will feature Alucard’s trip to Brazil and the beginning of the Nazi undead attack on London. The battles and key story scenes in this part of the story are so epic they hurt. So far the trailer doesn’t seem to equal those qualities in motion, hopefully the final product will be better. Good news is we only need to wait 8 days until its released in Japan on April 4 and thus only some extra days for a fansub. Bitching. 

Geneon has brought us pretty good series in the past few years, and this time they’re bringing that weird anime, renaming it “When they cry - Higurashi”. Although the translation isn’t 100% correct, I’ve seen worse AND in this case it doesn’t take the essence of the title. If you’re a fan, there will be a regular version and a “limited edition with box” version. So check your local anime selling store by June 5, the date they plan on releasing it on the States.

On a side note, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 2 is expected to be released this April sometime this year in Japan. Yay, Killer lolis are ALWAYS welcome! [BTW: expect a review of this series very soon ; )]

[ANN]

Among the very few PC games I play (and own) there is one that has a place in my heart, not because it had awesome graphics or gameplay, or because it was just $10, but because I had only played the short 10-minute demo of this game, over and over again, and the local Wal-Mart wouldn’t have such violent, M-rated game. . .until it was 5 or-so years old, dammit!

Sanitarium’s the name, and it features some pretty cool cinematics (for that time, obviously) and a pretty unique storyline. The graphics are all gifs, and you just use your mouse (point and click, Alla Diablo). The game started with you all covered in bandages, inside a cell of a pretty creepy sanitarium. You start to investigate the surroundings but since it’s a Sanitarium, no one is helpful so now you know that you’re alone in this quest (quest for what? maybe to get out of there, for starters).

The music is creepy, the graphics are also creepy, and as ridiculous as it sounds, you only “battle” once in the game. . .with a scarecrow. Still, there are many ways for you to die, so be very thoughtful on what is the next thing you are investigating!

This video is just a potpourri of some cinematics of the game, showing the oh so sweet rendering of mid-90’s CG models.

If I made a top 10 horror games, this would be one of the top ones. I really recommend you this one. . .and don’t forget playing alone at night, with your window open.

Well well well. . . The new trailer for the somewhat expected 3rd movie release on the Resident Evil saga is out. There has been confirmation of no more Jill but rumors about more Barry and even Leon S. Kennedy, our newest drug-trained (how else do you explain his back flips?) zombie-killing machine.

The movie is supposed to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. But the second video will take you by surprise!

Aaaand…since tonight I’m happy, and because the movie is being shot at Nahu’s and my hometown, I’ll put the bonus Zombie-cam version of a certain scene. I really laughed lots with these guys.

As a curious note, we have a friend that was a prospect to be a zombie, too bad she didn’t “get” the role.

[Destructoid]

Remember those Ghostbusters videos we had here a couple of days ago? You might also remember that besides finding out the videos came from Zootfly, an european developer, we had yet to find out exactly what was that we saw. A game in the making? Super secret project? Some bored employee’s lunchtime project?

Well Zootfly updated its website with good and bad news. Indeed the videos are of a Ghostbusters game in early development, running on Zootfly’s proprietary game engine. Sadly the project has hit a standstill due to IP ownership problems. The Ghostbuster’s franchise is legendary in its ownership complexity but the Zootfly team is hoping to resolve the issue and get back to work soon.

And if the project never saw the light of day, not all is lost. Zootfly is also working on another game, called TimeO which is ‘closely related’ to the Ghostbusters game, it takes place on an alternate dimension New York, where the whole city is a war machine bent on destroying our world. Sounds just like the original Ghostbusters movie. Get the hype machine running, its time.

[Zootfly]

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