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‘Resident Evil Requiem’ Trailer Gives a Closer Look At New Protagonist’s Past
Today, Capcom took center stage at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 with a new trailer for highly anticipated video game Resident Evil Requiem.
Set 30 years after the outbreak in Raccoon City, Resident Evil Requiem follows Grace on a new case where the young FBI analyst must return to the scene and face her tragic memories. This new era of survival horror is creeping to PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam on February 27, 2026.
In the new trailer below, we meet a younger Grace with her mother, investigative reporter and Raccoon City survivor Alyssa Ashcroft from Resident Evil Outbreak. It feels safe to say that this scene will play a huge role in adult Grace’s return to Raccoon City thanks to residual trauma. At the very least it’s not looking good for a couple characters in the new clip.
Requiem will also offer first-person camera and the series’ traditional third-person camera. What that means is that Requiem will allow players to swap between first-person and third-person perspectives through the Options menu at any point during gameplay, another detail revealed in the new trailer.
According to Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi, the upcoming game will stay true to the series’ Survival Horror roots, but highlight “a kind of thrill” to the action.
The new game arrives just ahead of a major milestone; the Resident Evil series will also celebrate its 30th anniversary in March 2026. So expect to hear a lot more about Requiem and the beloved video game series in the coming months.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.