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Modders Are Already Doing The Devil’s Work in ‘Resident Evil Village’
And so it begins.
Stop us if you haven’t heard this one before: Resident Evil Village is out now, and people are loving it. You know who else is loving it? Modders. We had a brief taste of what’s to come with the demo, and now that the game is out, people are letting their imaginations go.
For starters, we told you about the mod that brings Thomas The Tank Engine into Village…as Lady Dimitresu’s face. But now there’s more horrifying mods, such as JTegh’s Mini Me Chris, which turns baby Rose into Chris Redfield in a weird Austin Powers joke gone horribly wrong.
Want more? While this is not exactly horrifying, but you can now give Lady Dimitrescu “mommy glasses” with the Mommy Glasses mod. Quite stylish, and dare we say that Gary Oldman’s Dracula now has an appropriate counterpart? Missing Ada Wong after she was cut from the game? Why not bring her back with Stevebg23’s Lady Wong mod that gives Lady Dimitrescu an Ada makeover?
Of course, since everyone’s still going nuts over Lady D, there are more than a few mods over at Nexus Mods. Do you want to replace the suits of armor in Castle Dimitrescu with statues of the vampire lady herself? You can. Want to switch it up with the original scary stalker in Mr. X hunting you in Village? The Lady X mod has got you covered. Or perhaps you want to pay tribute to the late Jeanette Maus, and play as Cassandra Dimitrescu instead of Ethan?
Character swaps aren’t the only mods happening for Village, as you can also swap Ethan’s knife for a series of flyswatters. Of course, if you just wanted to get rid of the flies around the Dimitrescu daughters the easy way, you can use Raq’s mod for that.
There’s a lot to be found for Village‘s mods, and that list is only going to grow. So head on over to Nexus Mods, grab Fluffy Manager to actually get these mods working, and go to town.
Resident Evil Village is out now on PC (if you’re into mods) via Steam, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Google Stadia.
Overshadowing the announcement of Ninja Theory’s third entry in the Hellblade series earlier this month were reports that the developer was facing possible closure by Microsoft, alongside South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games and Double Fine. Now according to a new story by GamesBeat, another developer under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella is potentially facing closure in Undead Labs, who are currently working on State of Decay 3.
Earlier this month, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had announced that Microsoft was in the process of ‘resetting’ Xbox. That resulted in a report by Bloomberg during Summer Game Fest that revealed that multiple developers were negotiating with Microsoft to spin off of Xbox to avoid closing down. Now, according to the GamesBeat report, Undead Labs is now part of that group of developers negotiating to be bought to avoid layoffs.
The article states that Undead Labs could lose 110 jobs if it were shut down, while Compulsion could lose 90 jobs, Ninja Theory could lose 135 jobs, and Double Fine Productions could lose 100 jobs.
Other developers and publishers at Microsoft also reportedly face cuts, including Blizzard, id Software and Bethesda.
Undead Labs was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, with State of Decay 3 being announced in 2020. News on the development of the game was quiet until 2024, when a new trailer was released. Updates on the game again were hard to come by until last January when then-Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan revealed that development was still very much alive. That was followed up this month with an official announcement that State of Decay 3 would be coming next year to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.
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