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Canonically, Leon Kennedy survived the Raccoon City outbreak in Resident Evil 2 and went on to be a bodyguard working alongside the President of the United States. What if Umbrella snuffed out his life before he had a chance to rescue Ashley, though? That's what this trailer for Operation Raccoon City depicts, and it shows the various abilities and attitudes of the Umbrella soldiers present during the conflict. It's slick, shows off some impressive looking cinematics alongside in-game combat, and results in the death of Leon Kennedy. Maybe.

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Capcom is apparently betting big on the PC game market as it has just announced that yet another of its titles will be released to the platform. The publisher announced today that Street Fighter C Tekken, the previously announced cross over fighting game with Namco Bandai's fighting game characters, will be coming to the PC platform in 2012.

Part of the reason for the PC announcement may be because that the game uses the same engine as Street Fighter IV which was of course also released for the PC. That means that at least four upcoming Capcom games will be coming to the PC platforms (the others are Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Dead Rising 2: Off The Record and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City).

Fans of the PC port of Capcom's fighting game Street Fighter IV have something to look forward to this summer. As rumored, the publisher will release a PC version of the game's upgraded version, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition.

Compared to the PC port of Street Fighter IV, this game will add 14 new characters to the game (10 from Super Street Fighter IV and four more for the new Arcade Edition). All 39 characters will also be available from the start of the game; there will be no unlocking of any characters in this title. Look for some character gameplay rebalancing in this new title along with some other additions and changes.

Capcom's other big zombie action game franchise, Dead Rising, is getting a new entry this fall with Dead Rising 2: Off The Record for the PC and other platforms. This reinterpretation of 2010's game centers on Frank West, the main character in the first Dead Rising game, as he goes zombie hunting in Dead Rising 2's Fortune City.

Look for new missions for West to complete along with new creatures, weapons and more additions. Also the game itself will be getting some technical improvements compared to the original with "load time optimizations, improved network performance and a host of system upgrades."

Capcom's release of the original Street Fighter IV for the PC was a welcome one for PC gamers who very rarely have major fighting games show up on the platform. However Capcom has yet to release a PC port of the game's enhanced version Super Street Fighter IV. Now it looks like that the PC port may be on its way.

Responding to a Twitter message from a fan about "When will we have SSFIV for PC?" Capcom's Yoshinori Ono states, "I cant twit about it topic... Plz wait until 12th Apr. 8am PST. ;) RT." That's when a ton of Capcom news should be revealed from a recent press event. Super Street Fighter IV was first released for the Xbox 360 and PS3 nearly a year ago in the US and added 10 new characters to the original game's 25 characters.

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Capcom has been putting out plenty of stylish, multiplayer games lately. Lost Planet 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 3 both ooze style and encourage people to play together, either with or against each other. The latest entry in the Resident Evil series, Operation Raccoon City, seems to be a continuation of this. By this trailer alone, it looks like a fun zombie-killing co-op game, although there seem to be the occasional graphical glitch here and there. There's also an appearance by everybody's favorite Resident Evil 4 protagonist!

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The Resident Evil movies have never been huge box office hits but the modest budgets of the films based on Capcom's zombie action games have always made the movies profitable. Now Box Office Mojo has posted word that Sony's genre film label Screen Gems has already announced that the fifth Resident Evil movie will be heading to theaters on September 14, 2012.

Last year's release of the fourth film, Resident Evil Afterlife, did just OK here in the US with about $60 million generated at the box office. However the movie, the first to be shot and shown in 3D, did extremely well overseas with over $236 million in box office returns. It's currently unknown if the star of the first four Resident Evil movies, the always armed Milla Jovovich, will return for the fifth installment.

Bionic Commando Rearmed is easily our favorite remake of all time. It captures that feel of the NES Bionic Commando while modernizing it excellently. The sequel, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, understandably has us just as excited to take part in the adventures of Rad Spencer, and the trailers and details given out by developer Fatshark have only made us more pumped. The game has finally released on consoles (but not PC, unfortunately), and this trailer commemorates the occasion with tons of gameplay footage. From new weapons to beautiful new environments to cheesy 8-bit styling, it's one of the better launch trailers we've had the pleasure to watch.

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If you like saving money, you will be happy to know that Steam's mid-week madness events are now back on track after a hiatus due to the big holiday sales period. From now until Thursday you can download and purchase the original Bionic Commando Rearmed side-scroller retro action game from publisher Capcom for just $4.99, a 50 percent price cut from its normal price (by the way Capcom has yet to announced plans to release the upcoming sequel to Bionic Commando Rearmed which is due out for consoles later in 20110).

Meanwhile, Impulse has put one of its games on sale for today only. The adventure game Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle is on sale for just $7.49, another 50 percent price cut.

The 2009 PC release of Capcom's fighting game Street Fighter IV was a bit critical hit and proved that the fighting genre could work on the PC platform. So why didn't we get to see the follow up, Super Street Fighter IV, for the PC as well? Last year we were told that the high degree of PC game piracy was to blame.

In a new "Ask Capcom" video chat, Capcom VP Christian Svensson states that as a die-hard PC gamer himself (indeed he's on the board of the PC Gaming Alliance) he's been pushing to get Capcom to change its mind on the matter. He stated. "Unfortunately, we can't do that yet, but I'm still cautiously optimistic."

[Via VG247.com]