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The three live action films based on the Resident Evil game franchise have always been very loosely based on the Capcom games but the movies have always made their money back and more thanks to relatively low budgets, solid box office returns and high sales of the DVD and Blu-Ray versions. So it's no shock to hear that a fourth Resident Evil movie might be in the works.

According to Shocktillyoudrop.com a "studio source" at Sony's Screen Gems division has supposedly confirmed that the movie, to be titled Resident Evil: Afterlife, is in the works with Sony wanting to put the movie in theaters by September 17, 2010. There's no word yet if the star of the three previous movies, Milla Jovovich, will return for the fourth filick.

July is not exactly going to be a great month for PC gamers in terms of new releases. We have the first installment of the Tales of Monkey Island downloadable game due out next week and the PC port of Street Fighter IV and, well, that's really about it. Thankfully people who want to download and purchase Capcom's latest fighting game can do so via Steam and Impulse.

The nice thing about that route is that you can get a 10 percent discount from its regular $39.99 price when you pre-order the game from either download outlet. Those prices are only good until the game itself is released on July 7.

Update: You can also pre-load Street Figher IV via Steam with your pre-order.

This developer diary for Dark Void gives viewers a behind the scenes look at the team's early approach toward making the game and how they eventually came to use rocket pack flight and vertical combat.

"Dark Void is a sci-fi action-adventure game that combines an adrenaline-fuelled blend of aerial and ground-pounding combat. Set in a parallel universe called "The Void," players take on the role of Will, a pilot dropped into incredible circumstances within the mysterious Void. This unlikely hero soon finds himself swept into a desperate struggle for survival, joining forces with a rebel human group called The Survivors. Trapped in the Void, these resistance fighters are battling to hold off a mysterious alien race that plans to threaten Earth."

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This patch for Flock!, the phsyics based puzzle game featuring farm animals and flying saucers, updates the game to v1.03. It installs a number for new features to improve the game. Continue reading after the jump for a run down of what the patch provides.

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This is the official soundtrack to FLOCK!, the casual physics-based puzzle game where players use flying saucers to herd animals back to the mothership (or Motherflocker, as the game calls it). Now you can enjoy the sounds of flocking wherever you go. Capcom and developers Proper Games made the soundtrack available in OGG file format, which requires a codec to be installed in order to play in Windows Media Player or iTunes. We've taken the liberty of converting the files to 320 Kbps MP3 files and offering them as an alternative to installing a codec. The FLOCK! game demo can be downloaded here.

Download FLOCK! Original Game Soundtrack [OGG] (46 MB)
Download FLOCK! Original Game Soundtrack [MP3] (58 MB)
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This developer diary for Dark Void features members from both Capcom and Airtight Games discussing the alternate world players will find themselves in after they fly into the Bermuda Triangle. Dark Void is scheduled to release for consoles and the PC this fall.

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The Japanese are getting jittery over traveling, well, anywhere because of the new H1N1 virus. Even though the outbreak of the mutated "swine flu" has proven to be about as deadly as the regular flu it's causing at least one major game to be pulled from being shown at E3 2009, according to Kotaku.

That game, ironically enough, is Dead Rising 2, the Capcom action game (coming to the PC and other platforms) about fighting a horde of people infected with the fictional zombie virus. While the game is being developed by a Western company (Blue Castle Games) its producer at Capcom, Keiji Inafune, is Japanese. According to the story, no one from Capcom based in Japan is attending E3 this year because of the H1N1 outbreak. According to Capcom's US PR head Chris Kramer, " . . . the team is not comfortable having anyone else demo the code" for Dead Rising 2. All of the other planned Capcom E3 2009 games will be shown at the show.

In addition, the Develop web site has posted word that Japanese personnel from Square Enix and Koei won't attend E3 2009. However, it appears that both companies will still be exhibiting at E3.

While plans for E3 2009 continue to be made, at least one major publisher could keep at least its Japanese executives from attending the show in two weeks. The reason: the swine flu (also known as H1N1) infection that is affecting the world.

While H1N1 doesn't seems to be quite as serious to human life as originally feared, Capcom is apparently taking no chances. Gamesindustry.biz is reporting that Capcom's Keiji Inafune, the producer of their Dead Rising games, will not attend this week's Nordic Game 2009 conference in Sweden " . . . due to corporate policy restricting foreign travel during the current influenza outbreak." While Capcom will likely not pull out of E3 entirely (they are in fact running a contest to have Capcom fans attend their E3 booth) this might mean that Japanese producers and executives will not be coming to Los Angeles in two weeks to attend E3.

This trailer provides fans with an action-packed look at the new Bionic Commando, set to release tomorrow (May 19th) in North America and May 22nd in Europe.

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PC gamers awaiting the release of their version of Street Fighter IV from Capcom are likely to be concerned with if the fighting game will run on their PC rig. Thankfully Capcom has sent over some minimal and "maximum" hardware specs that will be needed to run the game:

Minimum
OS: Windows XP
CPU: Intel Pentium4 2.0GHz or higher
RAM: 1GB or higher
HDD: 10GB of free space or more
Video Card: DirectX 9.0c/Shader3.0 or higher compatible, NVIDIA GeForce6600 series, ATI Radeon(TM) X1600 or higher or higher, VRAM ：256MB or higher
Sound: DirectSound compatible, DirectX 9.0c (or higher) compatible
Input Devices: Mouse, Keyboard

Maximum
OS: Windows Vista
CPU: Intel Core2Duo 2.0GHz or higher
RAM: 2GB or higher
HDD: 10GB of free space or more
Video Card: DirectX 9.0c/Shader3.0 or higher compatible, NVIDIA GeForce8600 series or higher, ATI Radeon(TM) X 1900 or higher, VRAM ：512MB or higher
Sound: DirectSound compatible, DirectX 9.0c (or higher) compatible
Input Devices: Gamepad ：Xbox360 Controller for Windows

[Via email press release]