The world as we know it is coming to a end! You don’t believe me? Then check out the multiplayer trailer (entitled “Terror is Reality”) for Capcom‘s Dead Rising 2, and witness that this terror is actually a reality.

Dead Rising 2 is set several years after the infamous zombie invasion of Willamette. Unfortunately, the zombie virus was not contained at the conclusion of Dead Rising, spreading unchecked throughout the United States and Dead Rising 2 depicts a country where zombie outbreaks continue to strike.

Capcom has announced its plans to release an affordable collaboration of three of Capcom’s greatest games that have ever released on the 360 entitled the Platinum Hits Triple Pack.

The Platinum Hits Triple Pack combines Dead Rising, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition – Colonies Edition, and Devil May Cry 4 all in one box. Each of which has been awarded Platinum Hits “Best Seller” status and together have sold over 3 million units in North America alone.

This pack has the sole propose of giving any gamer that haven’t had the chance to play these titles the chance to redeem themselves for a great low price of 39.99. However, we all know that the real reason is that Capcom has too many copies of these games in stock. But, anyway you put it everyone wins.

Besides Capcom recently revealing heavy hitter such as Dead Rising 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and Lost Planet 2, it seems that Capcom is planning two more power hitters to announce at this years E3. 

“You think we have great titles now? Wait ’til we announce two more at E3!,” Capcom revealed via its Twitter accout.

Two titles?!?!? Wow they really do have this generation down to the tea, but what titles do they plan to reveal?

However, GameZine.co.uk has been told that one of the titles will surprise you, and the other we’ll all see coming. Let the speculation begin. 

What do you know… According to EuroGamer, Keiji Inafune, Capcom R&D kingpin, has confirmed that Dead Rising 2 features multiplayer, despite rumors at GDC saying that it wouldn’t.

“We’re at a point in game history that you need to have some form of multiplayer component in a game,” Inafune told journalists at Captivate 09 in Monaco last week.

“Single-player alone is not going to cut it. So rest assured we are going to put multiplayer in the game, but I can’t go into specifics about what type of multiplayer as that directly relates to some of the game systems that we don’t want to talk about at this event. It will be online multiplayer, so keep that in mind.”

Any fan of the first Dead Rising would know that it was great, but not because of its controls, or even Otis. But, because it featured a huge zombie horde on-screen at the same time.

And following in the foot steps of the first game, the sequel promises to feature a even bigger zombie horde on-screen.

When speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Izmeth Siddeek, who is a developer from Blue Castle Games, revealed that, “Dead Rising 2′ deal[s] with the rendering of the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game. Everything else needed to be subordinated to this requirement”.

Easily said, am I right? When he continue talking about the game, he revealed that they are “preparing to have as many as 6000 characters on the screen”.

[Dead Rising 2′ Is Supposed To Have Most Characters Ever… 6000? [GDC 2009] via MTV]

Sometime this month, or last, Capcom revealed that they were hard at work on both the Dead Rising sequel and Lost Planet sequel, but for some reason they only announced the Dead Rising sequel. But, now its seems that it’s Lost Planets time to shine.

After reports that Capcom is to reveal a ‘Top Secret’ project on Xbox Live, it seems that today they have revealed their ‘Top Secret’ project via video – not video on Xbox Live – and you know what, it’s Lost Planet 2.

According to the video, the game will be powered by Capcom’s proprietary engine, the MT-FrameWork 2.0., and being a game about the climate, the game will feature alot of climate change, meaning Hot and then Cool types of climate. The game will be produced by the guy behind Resident Evil 5, Jun Takeuchi.

The video also says that the game would not be fixed on one character – unlike the first game – but instead it will be fixed on the different Snow Pirate factions. The game will also have Mechs with passenger seats and turrets along with portable shields much like what has been seen in Gears.

There’s a list of complaints for Resident Evil 5 from the games controls system and the weird camera thing it does, sometimes, but even with all of that it has proven itself to be a great game. But, it seems that the producer of the game, Jun Takeuchi, has some idea for rebooting the franchise.

When being interviewed by 1UP, Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi revealed that the franchise is in for a reboot, or atleast that’s what the 1UP feature preview said:

“In what is destined to be the first genuinely epic game of 2009, Resident Evil 5 is practically guaranteed to be the last of its kind, with the game’s producer, Jun Takeuchi, assuring us that a reboot is in order for the inevitable Resident Evil 6. That’s not to suggest that there’s anything wrong with the evil at hand. Quite the opposite; it’s awesome fun, and we’ve beaten the game from beginning to end, and have a week’s worth of detailed, insider info for you to enjoy. Check out our exclusive interview, videos of unseen levels, and our final hands-on preview to see if Capcom’s controversial new survival-horror game lives up to its legacy.”

Remember back in 2006 when you first saw Dead Rising on the 360? Well, almost three years later it seems that the game is about to make an EPIC return because today Capcom announced its sequel, Dead Rising 2.

The game promises to ‘take the franchise to a new level of zombie-killing’ by featuring tens of thousands of zombies, in the all new gambling paradise of Fortune City, so it’s not in Vegas like previously though. The City will host new in-game objects that can be used as deadly weapons to stave off the zombie assault.

Dead Rising 2 is set several years after the infamous zombie invasion of Willamette. Unfortunately, the zombie virus was not contained at the conclusion of Dead Rising, spreading unchecked throughout the United States and Dead Rising 2 depicts a country where zombie outbreaks continue to strike.

Dead Rising 2 is being developed in partnership with up and coming Canadian developer Blue Castle Games. A number of members from the original Dead Rising team will be working alongside Blue Castle Games throughout the development process, including Capcom’s global head of research and development, Keiji Inafune, who as the game’s Producer will play an active role in the project.

A YouTube video has hit the web proclaiming that it’s the Dead Rising 2 trailer and guys close to Capcom have confirmed that is this the real deal.

I had a chance to contact a rep from Capcom and nothing can be ‘officially said’ because they cannot confirmed anything just yet. But, from this video we can find out some  information about Dead Rising 2.

The video has a reference to a drug that turns out ‘to almost be complete effective’ against the outbreak. Anyway, the video then moves to a casino it shows Isabella Keyes from the first game pushing a giant hamster ball, which they say is a new weapon from in the game.

However, if the video is true, it appears to confirm that Dead Rising 2 will be set in Las Vegas because of the casino parts of the trailer, but as of now, one can only wait and see.

In the shadow of the Lost Planet sequel announcement, Capcoms exec Keiji Inafune also mentioned to Famitsu that they are also currently working on a Dead Rising sequel.

According to Inafune, “We’re finally putting out new Dead Rising and Lost Planet games! As a main principle we’re thinking about multi-platform, and expanding upon both slightly from the Xbox 360 version.”

But, sadly, in has statements in that interview he didn’t go into details on if the Dead Rising sequel would Multiplatform. And if you don’t remember, in their shareholders it said that most of their games are going to be Multiplatform, but lets wait and see want the future holds.

[New Dead Rising And Lost Planet Mentioned, Might Be Multi-Platform via Kotaku]

The original Dead Rising was a solid Xbox 360 exclusive that kept gamers playing over and over again, but that was about it for the game title, until now. A source close to Canadian developer Blue Castle Games has told the guys over at Eurogamer that the studio is making a sequel to Dead Rising. Rumours that the Vancouver-based outfit was working on the zombie project first emerged last year, but neither the developer nor publisher Capcom has confirmed anything on the record.

The source said: “Everyone’s really excited; the team has obviously seen the rumours and it’s been hard to keep quiet, but they can’t wait to show off the game.”

Unfortunately, they weren’t quick to give any details on the title or when we’ll be likely to see it. Blue Castle has so far released two baseball titles all with 2K Games, including The Bigs, and the recently announced MLB Front Office Manager.

[Blue Castle making Dead Rising 2 via Eurogamer]

Whether on Xbox 360 or Wii Dead Rising remains the same and knowing Capcom they just can’t ever leave their fans empty handed. That’s why according to the latest issue of the famous Japaneses mag, Famitsu, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop will make an appearance on the Wii in February 2009 in the land of the Rising Sun, which just happens to be Japan. The game was recent announced to feature 100 enemy’s on screen, which isn’t as much as the 360 version. This is because, as you may already know, the Wii can’t push as much as the 360 can but this is only graphic-wise.

Alright. On Thursday, Capcom released a shareholder report, which stated that they will no longer be willing to make anymore platform exclusives for all three of the system that are right now out on the market. I know it was hard to believe at the time, but… Yeeah, you get the point. Now, once’s again thanks to the guys over a Nintendo Everything we can sleep happier. According to them, Capcom doesn’t want you to worry about the shareholder report and what was stated from it.

“Relax. I think the materials pretty much speak for themselves and we’re continuing to support all consoles with appropriate content,” said Capcom’s Christian Svnesson. “It just means things that in the past would have been timed exclusives to a single platform will no longer be exclusive to a single platform. It’s just better business decisions at play. I don’t think fans have anything to worry about. That said, I know nothing I say will keep people from freaking out, screaming ‘the sky is falling, OMG!’ So feel free to carry on assuming the worst. I suspect you’ll be pleasantly surprised if you do so.”

Dead Rising on the 360 was one of the first games to feature a few hundred enemies on screen, which was a surprise for all 360 owners. Now, Capcom wants to put that same surprise in the Wii version of the game, Capcom told Nintendo Power Mag that their main objective for the game is to reach the 100 enemies on screen mark. Which just happens to be less impressive than then what they had set for Micorsoft’s Xbox 360, but it’s for the Wii it’s a large number.