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You will be able to buy one copy of Resident Evil 7 to play on both Xbox One and PC. This marks the first non-Microsoft published title to be included in the Xbox Play Anywhere program.
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There’s been a steady stream of Resident Evil 7 biohazard related news this month, with the previous week seeing a new trailer and pre-order offer for US customers. Today there’s more, this time in the form of what Capcom will be offering for the Season Pass.
The developer has now listed the full DLC lineup on Resident Evil 7 biohazard’s Steam page, although there’s no indication of the schedule for release, just that it’ll be available by 31 st December, 2017.
The DLC is as follows:
Resident Evil 7 biohazard’s Season Pass doesn’t have an individual listing on Steam but there is a bundle offer with the videogame for £64.98. It’s scheduled for release on 24th January for PC, Xbox and PlayStation 4, including support for PlayStation VR.
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With Resident Evil 7 biohazard so close to launch it can seem as if hardly a week goes by without some sort of promotion or update. And January hasn’t disappointed with a new movie tie in deal for US customers, a Resident Evil 4D candle to immerse PlayStation VR users even further or how about a live-action experience taking place in London, UK. Today its something a bit more normal, a brand new trailer creepily titled ‘Welcome Home’.
With some seriously eerie background audio, the trailer takes you through the Baker family mansion, with a narration describing how important home and family are. “Home,” says the narrator, “a place of safety and warmth. Where families meet for laughter and feasts,” all the while showcasing the horrors that await those who dare to enter.
If you enjoy the odd scare or two, Resident Evil 7: biohazard is due out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on 24th January in North America and Europe, and 26th January in Japan. PlayStation VR support is included, and exclusive for 12 months.
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Even if you’ve no interest in the series, you can’t have missed the fact that Capcom has been doing its utmost to promote the latest installment of Resident Evil. There’s all manner of offers and promotions going on, from the usual steel books and collectors editions, to specific merchandising like the 4D candle for virtual reality (VR) players on PlayStation VR or the Resident Evil: Experience taking place in London, UK. Now for US customers there’s another promotion available, this time offering deals in collaboration with the movie franchise.
Firstly there’s the Gamestop offer. If customers pre-order the videogame at the retailer they’ll receive a redemption code to download a digital copy of Resident Evil: Retribution. PlayStation 4 owners can download the movie on VUDU, while Xbox One pre-orders will receive a redeemable code for Xbox Store. This offer is available for both pre-orders and purchases of Resident Evil 7 biohazard in the US through 6th February, 2017, and also applies to those who’ve already placed an order.
For Xbox owners the same deal with Resident Evil: Retribution applies for Xbox Store digital pre-orders, but PlayStation Network digital pre-orders are slightly different.
Instead players will receive a message with a 40 percent discount off the HD movie bundle Resident Evil Collection on the PlayStation Store. The collection includes Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and Resident Evil: Retribution. This offer is available through 23rd, January, 2017.
VRFocus will continue its Resident Evil 7 biohazard coverage in the run up to launch, reporting back with any further updates.
Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 biohazard launches in a few weeks time and for UK customers the studio announced the opening of an immersive experience in London, which runs across four days.
Resident Evil 7: The Experience is a 45-minute event that’s been inspired by the new videogame. Set in a haunted and dilapidated venue in the heart of London’s East End, The Sewer Gators, a paranormal TV production team, is looking for intern reporters to help them investigate the disappearance of their missing crew.
Participants arrive in the debrief area with a partner for the assignment.They will then need to work together to collect hints, solve a web of puzzles and clues, and outsmart the Baker family, searching for the truth about the missing colleagues and try escaping the house unscathed.
Laura Skelly, PR Manager, Capcom comments: “For anyone who has ever wanted to enter the world of Resident Evil, now is your chance! We wanted to give fans a little glimpse into the Resident Evil 7: Biohazard gameplay, bringing it to life and allowing people to interact with the game in a brand-new way, and perhaps even having a chance encounter with some of the game’s characters. Playing on the idea of survival horror, we are really excited to see who will be able to escape the experience when it opens its doors to the public later this month.”
“I’m extremely excited to see Resident Evil 7: Biohazard come to life through this Experience, and for participants to get a little taster of what is to come in the game,” said Game producer Masachika Kawata
Resident Evil 7: The Experience takes place in London from 20th – 23rd January and will be free entry on a strictly first-come basis. While the location of the Baker House is secret, participants will need to be at the debrief area at Dray Walk Gallery, located at 91 Brick Ln, London E1 6QL at 11:30am GMT. For further info head to the official Resident Evil 7: The Experience website.
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If you’re a Resident Evil fan you’ll know there’s not long to wait until the next instalment in the series. In the run up to launch, there’s plenty of merchandise available with limited edition collectors copies or steel books with various DLC addons available. Naturally the usual hoodies and t-shirts are on offer, but for virtual reality (VR) players looking for that all important immersion there’s something else, a candle that gives off scents of the dilapidated mansion.
Available through merchandise retail Merchoid, this Resident Evil 7 biohazard candle, dubbed the ‘Blood, Sweat and Fears 4D Candle’, has been created to fully immerse the player in the game by giving off the scent of foisty, old timber and blood smells, lasting for approximately 18-20 hours.
Whilst this may sound like a bit of a gimmick, it has been designed with VR in mind and comes as an officially licensed Capcom product. Merchoid’s Community Manager Jessica Adams explains: “The virtual reality experience is incredible, but we want to take you one step further than that. While playing the game, imagine if you could smell everything you could see and hear. The game becomes incredibly immersive as it tricks all your senses into thinking that you’re really there. The 4D candle is 100% officially licensed Resident Evil merchandise; this means Capcom have smelt the candle and found it scary to enough to give their seal of approval. We’d even suggest that using the Blood, Sweat and Fears 4D Candle is the definitive way to experience the game. Be careful though, with an experience this horrifying, the candle might not be the only smell you notice in the room…”
Manufactured in the UK by Rubber Road Ltd, for those that are interested the Resident Evil 7 4D Candle is available to preorder from Merchoid.com now for £14.99GBP/€17,99EUR/$15.99USD, shipping on 20th January.
VRFocus will continue its coverage of Resident Evil 7, reporting back with any further updates.
Recent statements by Resident Evil 7 producer Masachika Kawata, as well as data-mined files, appear to confirm the return of a classic Resident Evil baddie. The game is out for consoles and PC next month.
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Today saw the start of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) third annual PlayStation Experience, with it beginning with the live-streamed PlayStation Showcase. This is when SIE reveals lots of new titles coming for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation VR. SIE’s Shelby Cox took to the stage to new details for several videogames, one of which was Resident Evil 7 biohazard.
Cox revealed a new trailer for the upcoming horror title (seen below), and she also announced that PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro and PlayStation VR owners will be able to download the final demo update for Resident Evil 7 biohazard tonight (Pacific time). She didn’t state what would feature on the demo in terms of additional content, but players shouldn’t have long to wait to find out.
There’s been plenty of Resident Evil news in the run up to the videogames’ launch. Capcom released ten very short teaser videos – with the last appearing early November – along with continually updating the original demo that appeared at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). There’s also been the various reveals about limited edition versions of the videogame, with steel books available or the Collectors Edition which features a replica of the mansion from the title.
Resident Evil 7 biohazard launches on 24th, January 2017 on multiple platforms, but it’s exclusive to PlayStation VR for 12 months. For all the latest news on Resident Evil 7 biohazard, keep reading VRFocus.
The next instalment of Capcom’s long running horror series Resident Evil returns in January 2017, and as you all know by now comes with exclusive virtual reality (VR) support for PlayStation VR. As has been the case with previous launches, Resident Evil 7 biohazard will come in various editions, such as the Steel Book recently revealed as a GAME Exclusive. And for those budding collectors out there, the recently announced Collectors Edition will be available with all sorts of goodies. But depending on where you are in the world will slightly alter what you get in the box.
In the US Gamestop has an exclusive Resident Evil 7 Collectors Edition for $179.99 USD. It features an eight inch music box shaped like the mansion from the title. There’s also a metal case, VHS tape box, exclusive lithograph, premium packaging, a creepy note and a 4G USB stick in the shape of a dummy finger.
While the UK version which is exclusive to GAME & Amazon.co.uk features a 7 inch tall replica of the Baker Family Mansion, 20th Anniversary Resident Evil Artbook, Dummy Finger 16GB USB Drive, 5 Lithographs featuring art from Resident Evil 7 biohazard, An alternative inlay for the copy of the game, Survival Pack: Action Set DLC, and Premium Packaging. Currently no price has been revealed for the UK version.
And in the Australian version there’s the 7 inch tall replica, Artbook, USB Drive, 5 Lithographs and Survival Pack 1 DLC: including Shotgun, Handgun, recovery, Burner, and Chem Fluid Sets and Survival Pack 2 DLC: including several useful consumable items, a mysterious lucky coin and an instant unlock of the challenging ‘Madhouse’ difficulty setting. This retails for $299.95 AUD on EB Games.
Resident Evil 7 biohazard will launch on 24th January 2017, with support for PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4. The VR version will be exclusive for 12 months, but Capcom hasn’t yet revealed which headsets the videogame will support after that.
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While you can just buy a normal videogame of the shelves developers and publishers try to squeeze that extra bit of cash out of consumers by offering limited edition versions of titles. These can range from additional artwork or a fancy steel case, to much more elaborate offerings involving models, clothing and much more. This hasn’t really happened yet in the world of virtual reality (VR), as content has been purely digital, but with the release of PlayStation VR for PlayStation 4 that time has now come. UK-retailer GAME now has an exclusive Steelbook Edition available for Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 biohazard.
This special edition – as the name suggests – comes in a fancy metal case (for extra protection of that special disk. Whilst that might not tempt gamers to spend the £54.99 GBP asking price, the included DLC might.
This is the Survival Pack: Action Set, featuring .44 MAG ammo x4; Special Grenade x1; Lock Pick x 1; Solid Fuel x1; Gunpowder x1; Herb x1 and the Madhouse Mode Unlocked. As far as VRFocus is aware Capcom hasn’t yet revealed any details about this mode.
The developer previously revealed four Survival Pack Sets back in September, the Recovery Set, Handgun Set, Burner Set and Chem Fluid Set. Each has their own specific qualities depending on how gamers want to play the title, and they all include one coin. GAME’s exclusive ‘Action Set’ doesn’t seem to feature any of the previously revealed coins.
Resident Evil 7 biohazard is set for release on 24th January 2017, both on traditional 2D monitors for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and as an exclusive VR experience for PlayStation VR for 12 months. VRFocus will continue to keep you updated with all the latest details on Resident Evil 7 biohazard.