Capcom Explains Why Ethan Is Back For Resident Evil Village
Traditionally speaking, the
Resident Evil series rarely follows a linear narrative. Even from as far back as the original game and its successor, Capcom opted from an early stage to have each mainline installment depict the nightmare wrought by Umbrella from multiple perspectives. Indeed, not until the jump from
RE5 to
RE6 has a single protagonist ever been the star of the show on a back-to-back basis, so it’s certainly far from ordinary that the developer decided to break the trend with
Ethan Winters, first introduced in 2017’s soft reboot of the franchise, doesn’t have the profile of, say, Claire or Chris Redfield. Instead, he’s an ordinary man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances upon learning that his wife has seemingly been taken hostage by an infected family living in the Louisiana swamps. Only after the defeat of Eveline and his impromptu introduction to Chris, is Ethan’s place in the wi
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will be coming to PS4 and PS5 at launch. In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine, lead hub designer at TT Games Dawn McDiarmid has revealed several of the newest console’s features won’t be supported at launch. The good news is there will be plenty of new game features to make up for it, including around 300 playable characters.
One of the PS5 features the next-gen version will use is the SSD drive, enabling faster loading times. However, other features like DualSense haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, ray tracing, and 3D audio will not be supported, at least at launch. McDiarmid didn’t confirm whether these features will be patched in at a later date, but it would be a missed opportunity bearing in mind the game was delayed to allow a new-gen version to be developed for PS5 and Xbox Series X.