Resident Evil 9 will be open-world, leaker suggests

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Just over a year ago, Shinji Mikami - he of directing the original Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4 fame - was confirmed to be leaving Tango Gameworks, the studio that he had co-founded over a decade earlier to create a modern successor to his survival-horror classics, The Evil Within.

A new report alleges that be bigger than ever asit may incorporate a popular mechanic from another massively popular Capcom game. After the successful revitalization of the survival-horror franchise with 2017's, the series has jumped back and forth between new releases that advance the overall narratives and remakes of older games. Given that the most recent title was the remake, the community is confident that should be announced in the near future.

Resident Evil 9 could be an open-world game, it’s been claimed.

Renowned CAPCOM leaker Dusk Golem has revealed that the publisher's next major projects, Resident Evil 9 and Monster Hunter Wilds, will both follow in the footsteps of Dragon's Dogma 2 with an open world design. Here's what Dusk Golem wrote on Twitter:

Dragon's Dogma 2 is finally here, and whether you love it or hate it, you can't deny the fact that it's Capcom's most ambitious open world project to date. It's a publisher known for experimentation, using its big blockbuster IP to push boundaries and deliver consistently new experiences to keep things fresh and exciting. Now that Capcom is experimenting with open world tech, it's been claimed that the publisher plans to use Resident Evil to build upon it.

Shadows of the Damned, the unexpected collaboration between No More Heroes, Killer7 and Lollipop Chainsaw creator Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, will finally see a PC release with a new remake later this year - over a decade after it first hit consoles.

Shinji Mikami, one of the original creators of Resident Evil, has recently founded a new company under the name Kamuy Inc. Mikami gained notoriety as the director of Resident Evil, which went on to create and popularize the survival horror genre. Recently, he was part of Tango Gameworks, which he left in 2023. He's currently working with Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. on Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered.

Resident Evil 9 will be an open-world game, a well-known Capcom leaker has said. The insider also claimed that Dragon's Dogma 2 is at least partially to thank for the Resident Evil series' purported open-world foray.

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has had a long and winding road through the industry, starting at Capcom, before jumping to short-lived offshoot Clover Games, then PlatinumGames, and then his own Bethesda-backed studio Tango Gameworks. Mikami stepped away from Tango in the past year, leaving it in the capable hands of protégé John Johanas, and it was unclear what his next step would be.

The franchise is one of the most iconic in the entire video game industry and one talented fan wants to remind the community how far the franchise has come since its humble start on the PlayStation One. While many other video game series that began on Sony's first console have been either forgotten or dormant, Capcom's survival horror games have only improved in quality over the years, bar the occasional stumble in the mid-2000s. With modern titles boasting some of the best graphics around, it's easy to forget its roots.

Shinji Mikami, the legendary developer behind Resident Evil and a string of other classics, has founded a new company.