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Capcom Talks Remaking ‘Resident Evil 2’
In a video interview posted earlier today, producers Yoshiaki Hirabayashi and Yasuhiro Anpo discuss their experience working on various games in the Resident Evil franchise, as well as the upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2.
Hirabayashi previously worked on the GameCube remake of the original Resident Evilits HD remaster, which released last January. Anpo started as a programmer on the first two games before going on to direct Resident Evil 5 and Revelations 2. These guys clearly know this series. And since this is a fairly lengthy video, if you’re mostly interested in the remake, they don’t get into that until the last two minutes. The rest is absolutely still worth watching, especially if you’re interested in hearing about the now legendary Resident Evil 1.5.
There’s no “big” Resident Evil 2 news to be had here, aside from their mentioning a formal announcement of the remake’s director in the near-ish future. Still, it’s nice to see them get relatively excited about realizing a game that fans have been eager to get for nearly two decades.
“As someone who worked on the original [Resident Evil], I have great memories of it,” says Anpo. “The [GameCube Remake] is so amazing, I want to use those memories to try to catch up to and even supersede it with a new, modernized version of Resident Evil 2.”
“We know just upgrading the graphics isn’t enough,” adds Hirabayashi. “So we’re working very hard to make a game you’ll really love, so please look forward to it!”
Oh, don’t you worry. We’re definitely looking forward to it.
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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