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Capcom has announced Resident Evil Zero HD Remaster (Biohazard 0 HD Remaster in Japan), a high-definition remake of 2002’s GameCube-exclusive Resident Evil Zero. According to Dengeki Online, the game will be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC in early 2016 in Japan. A release for territories outside of Japan has not yet been confirmed.

Resident Evil Zero takes place prior to the events of the first Resident Evil. The game features police officer Rebecca Chambers and Billy Coen, a prisoner on death row. The duo must work together to survive a virus that has resulted in a zombie outbreak. The player can switch between the two characters at any time for the duration of the game, a feature called “partner zapping.” Each character possesses unique abilities. The player is also able to control both characters simultaneously, or have them separate to cover more area when exploring.

Earlier this year Capcom released Resident Evil HD, a high-definition remake of 2002’s Resident Evil, which was a GameCube version remake of 1996’s Resident Evil for the PlayStation. Resident Evil HD has sold more than one million units worldwide, setting a new record as the “biggest-selling day one digital title” on the PlayStation Network, according to Capcom. The game is also Capcom’s fastest selling digital title in the company’s history.

During a company financial briefing last week, Capcom suggested that it will publish more high-definition remasters of its old games. Given that overseas download sales of Resident Evil HD exceeded expectations, Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster may well see a release in the West. Check out more images below.

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Blizzard fans might have noticed that StarCraft’s Tychus Findlay, who’s a playable character in Heroes of the Storm, no longer has his signature cigar hanging out the side of his mouth. As Blizzard recently explained in a post to Reddit, the decision to remove the cigar had to do with the game’s rating.

Heroes of the Storm is published in multiple regions with a teen rating, so there are a number guidelines Blizzard has to adhere to. There are are regions where Findlay couldn’t smoke and keep the teen rating, so Blizzard could either make two versions of the character (smoking and non-smoking) or just remove the cigar entirely.

“Making 2 versions means more data management, multiple duplicates of the asset (if we update an animation, it has to propagate to all versions) such as the the death ragdoll model, The facial animations, his morph into the Odin, and apply that process to every skin as well,” a Blizzard developer said. “This mountain of work affects multiple departments and has to be addressed every time we’d adjust Tychus.”

Blizzard said that this isn’t the first time it had to adjust a Heroes of the Storm character’s appearance to accommodate rules in different regions. Any character that has a skeletal or bloody element has to be changed or removed entirely in some regions.

“It is a full time job managing those exceptions, and the less we have to manage, the more time we can spend making more game!” Blizzard said.

Ahead of the game’s official launch early next month, Heroes of the Storm has entered open beta, meaning anyone can now freely download and play Blizzard’s take on the increasingly popular MOBA genre.

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Fire investigators in Colorado Springs think that a Wii console is the likely cause of a fire inside a RV home this week, local NBC news channel KOAA 5 reports.

The homeowner Trevor Pellegrin told KOAA 5 that he was not at home when the fire started. Pellegrin said that the fire also had nothing to do with the Wii wires, and that it started inside of the actual console.

A spokesperson for the Colorado Springs Fire Department told KOAA 5 that all other possible sources of ignition were ruled out.

The fire melted Pellegrin’s TV, his Wii, and some of his clothes, and while his roof suffered “extensive smoke damage,” it seems his home survived the incident.

In the comments section to the KOAA 5 website, Pellegrin says that he got in touch with a Nintendo representative, but the he was located in the United Kingdom, so he was redirected to Nintendo of America.

One of the images from KKTVO 11 News video segment about the fire shows that Pellegrin also owns an Xbox 360, which appears to have survived the fire unscathed.

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The creators of HonorBuddy, a popular World of Warcraft bot that was recently detected by Blizzard, is planning to bring the service back to life.

HonorBuddy allows players to collect honor in PvP without actually engaging anyone and requires no input from the player.

“We will soon release Honorbuddy again,” staff member “Bossland” said in a post on the official Honorbuddy forum. “Again, we will give no guarantee and we have never given a guarantee, that our software is immune to detection or bans.”

Honorbuddy speculated that its client was detected via “malware-type hidden software,” which scanned and found computers that were running software that violated the World of Warcraft’s terms of service.

Bossland said that they expect to bring Honorbuddy back by the end of the week, but it doesn’t seem like they have quite yet.

Honorbuddy also disputed Blizzard’s claim that over 100,000 World of Warcraft account were banned during the ban wave on May 13. “there has never been that many active Honorbuddy users,” they said.

Outside of World of Warcraft, Blizzard is gearing up to launch a new MOBA called Heroes of the Storm, which is pitched as a competitive online game in the same vein as League of Legends or DotA 2, but said to be more approachable.

It is also working on a team-based shooter called Overwatch, which it has described as a “pick-up-and-play” FPS. Find out more about the game in GameSpot’s in-depth report on Overwatch‘s characters and gameplay.

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Arrowhead Game Studios is working on a big, free update to its Gauntlet reboot which will significantly improve the original release, the developer has said.

“In truth, we were never fully satisfied with how Gauntlet turned out,” Arrowhead’s game director Emil Englund said in a post to Arrowhead’s official site. “So, rather than just fixing little things here and there, we have been working on the core of the game to turn it into what we originally envisioned.”

Englund didn’t get into specifics, but said that the update will include improvements to the Campaign, Colosseum, as well as an entirely new game mode.

Gauntlet was originally released in September 2014. The game, which is a reboot of the 1985 original, got a fair score of 6/10 in GameSpot’s review. Earlier this year, Arrowhead released another top-down four-player cooperative game called Helldivers, which got a great score of 8/10 in GameSpot’s review.

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Battlefield 4‘s spring update, which adds new guns and a new mode to the multiplayer first-person shooter, will release this Tuesday May 26, developer DICE has announced.

The update will hit all platforms according the following schedule:

• PC: Multiplayer will be offline for 1h starting 08.00 UTC / 1.00 AM PDT.
• Xbox One: Multiplayer will be offline for 1h starting 09.00 UTC / 2.00 AM PDT.
• Xbox 360: Multiplayer will be offline for 1h starting 10.00 UTC / 3.00 AM PDT.
• PS4: Multiplayer will be offline for 1h starting 11.00 UTC / 4.00 AM PDT.
• PS3: Multiplayer will be offline for 1h starting 12.00 UTC / 5.00 AM PDT.

In addition to the old Gun Master mode from Battlefield 3. The patch will add five new weapons, and while DICE didn’t share their exact names and look, it gave us a general idea for what to expect:

• New fan favorite Assault Rifle – Picked based on its unique burst gameplay and massive fan desirability
• New Carbine – A unique bullpup carbine with built-in vertical grip
• New PDW – A unique PDW with built-in silencer
• New Sidearm – Unique long range “sniper” sidearm using magnum rounds
• New LMG – Magazine fed LMG, which with the new weapons balance, plays in between a belt-fed LMG and an AR – your “run and gun” LMG

Gun Master, which gained its popularity in the Battlefield 3: Close Quarters DLC, is like Team Deathmatch, but you only get new weapons every time you get two consecutive kills, and the first player to get a kill with the final weapon wins.

The patch will also “significantly improve client stability on all platforms,” fix a number of issues that cause crashes, and rebalance all weapons, which you can read about in greater detail here.

DICE said that it will release full patch notes once the update is released.

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