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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.
Bits and pieces of the cancelled DOOM 4 project have made their way online over the years in various forms, and it’s no exception with the latest batch of media. Per Video Games Chronicle, X users @Runhob and @WadOverdose, who previously had posted unreleased material from the cancelled shooter, over the weekend released more images, including a piece of concept art that until now had only been available in cropped images on Instagram.
@Runhob over the weekend posted the aforementioned concept art by concept artist Christian Piccolo, depicting an epic vision of Hell. The original piece had been posted to Piccolo’s Instagram back in 2017, but was obviously only a square piece of the original art. That in turn was followed by more images from an early build of DOOM 4, showing off a couple of weapons and the urban environment that had resulted in many referring to the game as “Call of Doom”, due to the derided Call of Duty inspirations.
Not to be outdone, @WadOverdose posted images of very early models of enemies from the game, including one referred to as a Combiner, which as @WasOverdose noted, would have used a similar merging mechanic that was seen in Cronos: The New Dawn.
All of this comes after last week’s “reset” by Xbox, which has resulted in layoffs and pivots by all of its studios, including DOOM developers id Software letting go 100 of its staff members.
Meanwhile, id has just released the first DOOM: The Dark Ages expansion in Revelations, which is available now on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and the PC via Steam.