That teased Resident Evil announcement was a website update

Bummer

That recent Resident Evil announcement was just a website history page update: nothing to see here! No RE4 remake.

On Valentine’s Day, the Twitter account for the Resident Evil portal tweeted out something about “suspicious activity” coming up on the portal. It teased that staff was “busy,” and that there is “something going on tomorrow at [February 15] at 4PM JST, which is early morning the next day in the west.

The Resident Evil announcement tease actually was suspicious and had a lot of people buzzing, as you could clearly read the words “Resident Evil 2” in the obfuscated teaser image. That tease turned out to be a history update. Not a game!

Upon loading the site this morning, fans were greeted with the message “the following titles have been added to [the history section].” That list includes Resident Evil Zero, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. You have to log in with a Capcom ID to view them, but you’ll be able to see “artwork never before released online” for each game; and there’s a cute little release timeline, going from 1996 through 2002. The next update is scheduled for February 22. Most likely, more history portions are coming, as it cuts off at RE3 and there’s more to go.

I didn’t expect much to begin with. The thing is, I’ve been here before! Capcom, to its credit, actually does keep up the Resident Evil website. It’s a place to find out about upcoming betas, mill around info, and in previous years, linked to older games. So they’ve had teases like this in the past, and they ended up launching as website updates.

Chris Carter

Reviews Director, Co-EIC – Chris has been enjoying Destructoid avidly since 2008. He finally decided to take the next step, make an account, and start blogging in January of 2009. Now, he’s staff!