If you feel like playing Resident Evil, but your friends won’t leave the house, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City may be for you. Looking back and forward at the same time, Capcom has decided to revisit the events of Resident Evil 2 in a “what if” scenario while substantially altering the controls of the series. For the first time (that I know of), ORC lets you walk around and fire your gun at the same time.
We had a chance to check it out at E3 and walked away impressed, sort of. The game looks very much like Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5, with crisp textures and detail-rich environments, but everything about it has been amped up for speed and scale.
In the 10-minute Xbox 360 demo we played through, you play as special Umbrella agents tasked with ridding Racoon City of its zombie problem. Three other players joined in LAN to co-op our way through the scenario, which had us looking for Leon Kennedy and, well, shooting a lot of zombies and Lickers (T-Virus mutations that have a big tongue and tend to walk on the ceiling). Like previous RE games, you control your character from a third-person viewpoint, but this time you have a visible on-screen reticle to guide you and full FPS controls, complete with running, melee, grenades, a radar map, and special “skills.” My favorite abilities were pressing A to stomp on a zombie’s head and a fun one-hit kill melee attack that can be pulled off with the B button and a little time and luck. If you run out of ammo, you also have an emergency pistol which appears to auto target the nearest zombie in your field of vision. Fans of the RE fans will be happy to know that the pistol has a laser sight.
In our demo, we could choose from six characters, each with their own skill sets. A choice of eight to 10 basic weapons were also available. Capcom representatives told players to try to work together, but the teamwork appears to mostly come down to everyone shooting as many zombies as they can without being bitten. When we cleared out our first city block, we all had to enter a garage together where Lickers attacked us. Once they were dealt with, we entered our last area, which threw even more zombies at the ‘team’ from all directions.
There are a lot of zombies. The infected masses are everywhere and seem to look and act somewhat more like the speedy braineaters from Left for Dead than a typical Resident Evil game. It’s a lot easier to mow them down than it has been in past games in the series as well. While we might be inclined to complain about this, reps told me that as an Umbrella special forces team, you’ll also have to face off against government soldiers and agents as they attempt to deal with the mass zombie epidemic themselves. We don’t yet know if the multiplayer is playable over Xbox Live, but we are hoping it is. The campaign mode definitely supports solo and LAN for up to four players.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will hit Xbox 360, PS3, and PCs this “Winter.”
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
Why does this run so well on Apple devices?
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”