Resident Evil 8 rumours suggest it's called Resident Evil: Village, and focuses on Chris Redfield

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 8 could lean heavily into the realm of folk horror, according to a new report from , which claims that the sequel to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 7: Biohazard will be out by Spring 2021, and will be officially titled Resident Evil: Village.&nb💙sp;

The latest article, which corroborates with the information provided by yesterday's leak (seen below), suggests that Capcom is taking inspiration from the modern folk horror genre for its latest survival horror instalment, which apparently is set in Europe and gives fan favourite character Chris Redfield an "i😼ntegral role" in the story. 

There'll also be a new stalker enemy type, the Witch, who'll behave similarly to the Nemesis we've just encountered in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 3 Remake by regularly haunting and hunting the player down throughout the event💦s of the main campaign. 

There's a few more interesting tidbits to be gleaned from the story, which cites a "anonymous emailer" as its source, so it's worth taking all of it with plenty of salt before Capcom makes an official announcement itself. With 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:E3 2020 cancelled, who knows when that might be, but𝄹 hopefully it's sooner rather than later. 

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Resident Evil 8 will be revealed in some capacity later this month, if the latest round of rumours are to be believed and if t๊hat wasn't enough, it's reportedly going to be quite the departure for the long-running survival horror series. 

Resident Evil 8 rumours have 🥀continued to swirl for some time now, but this latest batch from noted Resident Evil and Silent Hill leaker AestheticGamer has given us perhaps our biggest insight into the upcoming title yet. AestheticGamer notes that his sources are indicating that Resident Evil 8 will release in 2021 for current and next gen consoles.

AestheticGamer says that this iteration of Resident Evil 8 is going to surprise people, iജf his sources are correct. "It is first-person, and many purists are going to hate it because it's taking some serious departures in the story/enemies a🌠nd the like. Hallucinations, Occultism, insanity and not being able to trust others are huge thematics of the game." 

Interestingly, previous reporting had suggested that Resident Evil 8 would be some time away still after its development was overhauled. Capcom has, reportedly, overcome this by retooling an in-development Resident Evil Revelations 3. According to , "The reason I said RE8 was "years away" earlier this year is last year a RE8 was in development, & that one is years away. But Capcom didn't want a huge gap between R🉐E7 and RE𝐆8, so that title got pushed to the side for now, & internal testing and such was super positive on Rev 3."

We reached o💫ut for comment from Capcom and were told "as always, we don&r𒀰squo;t comment on rumors and speculation". 

Of course, if AestheticGamer and their sources are correct, we could be getting much more information about the future of Resident Evil before the month is over. Given Resident Evil 7 launched back in 2017, this has certainly been a long time coming – although whether this installment will continue the adventures of [spoilers for Resident Evil 7] Ethaℱn Winters and Chris Redfield remains to be seen. 

We'll be following this as the weeks continues, and in the meantime you can read our thoughts on the latest release in the series in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 3 Remake review

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