Sure, the Resident Evil films have, well, sucked, at least artistically speaking. But that’s almost expected of a video game film these days. The last Resident Evil film, Apocalypse, is considered the worst of the bunch and has received awful reviews and ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but ironically, that didn’t stop the film from grossing $236 million worldwide, making it the top grossing Resident Evil film, by far. In fact, it grossed more than all three previous films combined.

Now Capcom and Sony Pictures have confirmed that a fifth film is in the works, will shoot later this year and will be released in 2012. In 3D, of course. We dunno if Mila Jovovich will be back or whether Paul W. S. Anderson will helm yet anther sub-par sci-fi flick. We saw RE Afterlife in the theaters in 3D, and we went away not just disappointed, but hoping that they’d never do another Resident Evil film. Well, back luck for us.

The new DLC for Monolith Productions’ F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is looking scary. Reborn will be putting you in the shoes of Replica Soldier Foxtrot 813 as you play through four new missions. It’s estimated that it will take two hours to complete.

A demo for F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn will be out August 27th, while the full version will have to wait until September 3rd for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

The Alien and Predator franchises are the biggest sci-fi powerhouses to be created since Star Wars and Star Trek. Despite the huge let-down of the long anticipated Alien Versus Predator films, the continuing battle between the vicious aliens and the honorable predators (not to mention the humans getting caught in the middle) still delights fans.

We’re now getting the first details regarding a new Alien Versus Predator game which is being developed by Rebellion, the team who created the original 1999 classic. If you’ve played either of the other two games the overall setup won’t be surprising. Its a first person shooter with a different storyline for each species, though the events of each will swirl together and inform each other.

The marine will rely on his array of fancy gadgets and weapons to help him against the more numerous and physically superior creatures, the predator uses his own gadgets and hunting skills to survive while the alien uses stealth, superior senses and sheer single-minded fury. There will also be a three-way multiplayer mode with each species battling for superiority.

The game is a multiplatform release, with versions for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 all planned to release in early 2010.

I really, REALLY, hate Clive Barker.

It’s bad enough that he unleashes his misery on us in book form and in movie form, but recently, he’s dropped a video game on us too.  Not his first, I know, but it’s no less painful for the fact that it isn’t first.  If anything, it’s actually MORE painful, because he did it to us once already—now he’s come back for seconds.  It’s called Jericho, and it’s out for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC.

Anyway, this time, Clive Barker’s bringing us the story of the Firstborn, which he claims is part of Apocryphal and Gnostic texts (parts of the Bible in case you don’t follow that sort of thing) as the first thing God ever created.  It’s not male, it’s not female, but it’s both beautiful and horrifying all at once.  God, not surprisingly, turned out not to like the thing he made and thus shut it up in the Abyss.  He then followed up with humanity, which turned out much more to God’s liking than the androgynous singularity he’d made earlier.  And then, just to prove that Clive Barker’s grasp on logic is as tenuous as his grasp of sanity or writing a decent book, it turns out that the Firstborn decided to not be banished any more, and so, he wasn’t.  He made seven attempts to break out of the Abyss, and every time, God sent him back, but not without taking a piece of the planet with him.  The empty chunks of earth became fragments of time and space, and then did bizarre things to the world around them.  The U.S. government, as represented by the Department of Occult Warfare, sends in the Jericho Squad to investigate one such singularity, which one of its former members is using as a gateway to bring the Firstborn back into the world.

See, that’s a real mouthful of a storyline until you consider that Jericho is yet another first person shooter.  This is like trying to put a Ferrari chassis around a moped and expecting people to believe you own a Ferrari.  Seriously, they’ve put everything into this—time travel, various occultic stuff…lesbians…yes, lesbians.  They’re part of the plot, even though they’re really not here for anything more than the inevitable “hey look at this!” effect.

And while the game has spectacularly creepy visuals, the gameplay itself is suffering from some kind of mild brain damage, because your elite team of master soldiers dies a lot more often than master soldiers really should.  That may be the worst part about the whole thing—even I have to admit that this is a really impressive story, even if it requires massive suspension of disbelief.  And what do they DO with this story?  They strap a chain gun barrel to it and say “Here, go shoot something.  A lot.”  Great—why do I find myself utterly unable to care?  Maybe it’s because my character is just a gun barrel people talk to.

While this might have made a pretty good movie (or even series thereof), sadly, it doesn’t make a game worth a hill of beans.  There are much better first person shooters out there, with much more action and adventure and fun than this could ever generate.

We just recently learned that a game based on the Saw series was actually in the works and slated for a Fall release. Shortly after that announcement Zombie Studios released the first teaser trailer featuring the game.

You will recognize Jigsaw in the teaser if you watched any of the Saw movies with his mockingly quiet voice and uncanny knack for playing games that involves potentially killing someone. The teaser does a good job showcasing the game’s graphics and gives a general lowdown on what you can expect in terms of gameplay.

However, Jigsaw finishes off the trailer inviting you to “join him at Konami’s Gamer’s Night” which goes down April 9th.

The Wii so far has not been the recipient of any Silent Hill love from Konami. However, that is set to change as a Nintendo Power article reveals the existence of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.

Said to be a “reimagining” of the one that started it all, the game will feature the same basic plot of the original, but will be tweaked to “betray your expectations”.

"The characters play different roles, things don’t necessarily happen in the same order, and the story is taken in lots of new directions," reads the article.

The Wii remote will be used to interact with the environment and the article notes that all puzzles are based around this idea.

No release date or details were given.

If the fact that you even have to pay for Resident Evil 5‘s recently announced Versus mode didn’t enrage you enough, you better look away.

Capcom recently announced that Japanese players will be getting the DLC for 160 Microsoft Points or ¥250 over PSN (about $2.50). This compares to the North American pricing of 400 Microsoft Points and $5.

Sure, Capcom, you explained why the content needs to cost money, now explain why the Japanese get it cheaper!

Read (Joystiq)

Capcom previously confirmed the “hidden” Mercenaries mode, which would be playable only after the game was completed, but at the same time said that the Mercenaries mode was to be offline only, including the co-op mode.

New information at IGN suggests that that an update will be available at launch on the Xbox 360, which will add online co-op support. This has not yet been confirmed, and Capcom has not responded to inquiries regarding the matter, however, IGN has confirmed that the patch works for the Xbox 360, but are still not sure about the PS3 version.

We just learned earlier today that EA would be releasing a prequel to their popular survival-horror, Dead Space for the Wii entitled Dead Space Extraction.

Well it seems EA wasn’t satisfied with just an announcement and decided to throw in a trailer, shown above, for the game.

Dead Space Extraction is currently under development by EA Redwood Shores and is slated for a Fall 2009 release.

EA’s popular survival horror game Dead Space is now available on Steam for $49.99, while Europeans are, getting screwed by Valve as usual their price is 45 Euros, which translates to 60 dollars.

Currently there is no demo available on Steam, but it should arrive shortly.