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Capcom announced their plans for the months to come and beyond on E3 2021 showcase last Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Among the announcements was of course, for Resident Evil: Village‘s expansion. By popular demand, it looks like Capcom just has to do it. Although no information as of yet as to what the expansion will be about, RE fans can rest, knowing that we’ll get to spend more time on Village.

In other Resident Evil related news, the other RE Netflix show, just named Resident Evil, set up for streaming some time this year has finally announced their cast by Lance Reddick (American Horror Story, Fringe, LOST) who plays their version of the villainous Albert Wesker.

It’s notable that there will also be another actor Lance will be sharing the role with, but for the big screen. Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) will do his own take of the same character for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City on its November 24, 2021 release.

The Resident Evil franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a plethora of content including Resident Evil: Village, the Netflix shows: Resident Evil: Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil. as well as the movie reboot Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, among others.

So much has happened this week for the Resident Evil franchise. The mainline game, now on its 10th installment with Resident Evil Village has topped the game charts for the month of May, especially on PlayStation.

“Like Lady Dimitrescu herself, Resident Evil Village towered over the competition in May’s PlayStation Store charts, earning the survival horror adventure the top spot not only on the US and EU PS5 charts, but the EU PS4 list as well.” as stated on PlayStations blog.

Elsewhere, the American voice acting cast from the last three game releases: RE7, RE3 (2020), and RE Village, got together for a little celebration (and much to every RE fans enjoyment!) on game streaming site, Twitch, hosted by Nicole Tompkins (Jill Valentine, Daniella Dimitrescu) on her account and answered fan questions and handed out prizes last June 6, 2021.

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, one of two planned RE Netflix series, just released the opening scene from the show, in anticipation for its release next month, July 8, 2021. Infinite Darkness includes both pairs of voice actors from the Resident Evil: 2 remake’s American and Japanese main characters.