• Resident Evil 6 was announced this week and it's bringing zombies back to the series, maybe also survival horror. Remember when the series' threats were zombies and tyrants, not crazy villagers and matrixy Wesker? Well, Leon and Chris are finally in a RE game together, but who knows if they'll actually meet. Leon is in the city named Tall Oaks and apparently has to kill the zombie president, while Chris is in China. There's also a third main character. Is it Hunk, unmasked? RE6 will be out 11/20/12.

• Speaking of Resident Evil, there's a new 5-minute trailer for RE: Revelations, but it has huge spoilers in it. Watch the video and you won't have to play the game.

• Rising Star Games is bringing Akai Katana to Europe. Hopefully it'll be region free like when they brought over DoDonPachi Resurrection so us North American fans can play it.

• The insanely great idea of Nobunaga's Ambition + Pokemon was originally pitched as Pokemon Musou. A Dynasty Warriors Pokemon game would actually be really awesome.

• Hideo Kojima shared a couple shots of Zone of the Enders HD new opening anime by Sunrise.

• BioShock Infinite will have a hardcore 1999 mode that require better resource planning and combat specializations than what you might do in the normal game.

• The Acura Legned of Zelda. Awesome.

• The first trailer for the Gundam: Unicorn game is pretty underwhelming. It doesn't look that great, but maybe it's just a poorly recorded video. The combat looks good, at least.

• Warriors Orochi 3 will see a North American release. What's good about this Warriors title is that it has characters from Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, along with three other Tecmo/Koei games that are relatively crappy.

• The King of Hell goes to Hell, Michigan to poorly promote Army Corps of Hell.

• SOPA and PIPA have been shelved for now and the ESA has finally pulled its support for SOPA.

Movies

• Original Gundam designer Kunio Okawara made his own version of Syd Mead's Turn A Gundam. This makes me wish Bandai Entertainment didn't shut down so we could still get Turn A Gundam on DVD.

• The trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution starts as a Sony ad, then turns into something vaguely Resident Evil, but the segue makes absolutely no sense. The Resident Evil: Apocalypse Umbrella commercial/trailer did it so much better.

• The Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning demos will each unlock exclusive armor and weapons in the other full game. That's cool and gives me a reason to actually play the demos. It's like the awesome Blood Dragon armor all over again.

• Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die will have 24 endings. 24! I'm guessing you'll need to get the first 23 to see the final ending.

• The Ninja Gaiden III Collector's Edition will have a Ryu Hayabusa Vs. Red Ninja statue, soundtrack CD, art book, and code for a special version of the Dead or Alive 5 demo.

• Mortal Kombat will have a Komplete Edition that contains all the DLC, the Mortal Kombat: Songs Inspired by the Warriors album (aside from a few tracks, it's not that good), and a downloadable version of the Mortal Kombat movie. The Komplete Edition will be out on February 28th.

• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend gets a Limited Edition with a soundtrack CD, art book, and 2012 calendar. Hmm, well we won't get much use out of the calendar's January pages since this come out in February.

• This isn't official yet, but a photo shows that an Aliens: Colonial Marines Collector's Edition. The Collector's Edition contains a statue of an Alien attacking a Power Loader, wraparound display, dossier, and extra DLC.

• There's a Mega Man 25th Anniversary logo. Capcom supposedly has something planned, but they'll probably cancel whatever it is because Capcom hates Mega Man.

• Here's a look at the Limited Edition packaging for Under Defeat HD. I like the regular edition art better.

• March must be Silent Hill month because three Silent Hill games are coming out that month. The HD Collection is out March 6th, Downpour on the 13th, and Book of Memories is on the 27th.

• Sega's stance on SOPA? Caused by bad installs or junk data. Hilarious, Sega. Then they further joke about it and made a video about performing a hard reset. Awesome, Sega.

Movies

• Battle Royal is coming to Blu-ray on March 20th in two version. The four-disc Battle Royal Collection will have both the first and second films and lots of extras, while the single-disc version will just be the first movie.

• The Star Wars TV series is called Star Wars: Underworld. Well that doesn't sound epic at all.

• The actual title of the next Resident Evil movie is Re5ident Evil: Retribution. Yes, there is a 5 stupidly placed in there.

• For some reason there's going to be a Green Arrow series on the CW. That means it'll be crappy.

• Apparently dancing using the "getdown" command in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic makes you invincible. That means easy boss fights and non-stop dance battles!

• Sega will be bringing House of the Dead 3 and House of the Dead 4 to the PS3. Both games will have move support.

• Sega isn't doing anything with Shenmue, but creator Yu Suzuki said he could get the license back from Sega. He has Shenmue III all planned out, so maybe it's a thing that will happen.

• Gran Turismo 5: XL Edition will be out in Northa America on January 17th for $39.99. It includes all the updates so far and a voucher for $20 of DLC. Sounds like a deal, plus you don;t have to sit thgouh a bazillion updates.

• Soul Calibur V will have a limited edition soundtrack. The set has three CDs, a DVD, and comers in a digipak with a hardcover case.

• Real or fake, this Wipeout quantum levitation video is cool. I want those little Wipeout miniatures.

• The Mega Man tribute game Rokko Chan now has a free soundtrack download and a Flash-based art book. Cool extras for a cool indie tribute game.

• The Mortal Kombat flash dancers are back for round 2, this time with special effects, more dance moves, more stunts, and a really crappy Goro.

• Katawa Shoujo is a real game about dating disabled girls. One of them doesn't have any arms. It's a free download is you want to see the insanity yourself.

• Ash gets a Digimon instead of a Pokemon for his birthday. Pooping ensues.

Movies

• Someone edited the video of Harrison Ford playing Uncharted 3 to Ford watching the Indiana Jones movies for the first time. Ford has actually never seen the Indy movies, though, that part is true.

• The live-action Akira is thankfully probably going to be shut down again. Warner Bros. wants to reduce the budget even further to 60 to 70 million. This movie could never be good, so they'd be be smart to just end it now.

- Shawn - 1/8/12

• Konami is bringing out a special Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3DS with an awesome snakeskin design on the system. This might be sold only on the Konami store in Japan, but will hopefully come stateside. The gunmetal MGS4 PS3 and Zelda 3DS made it here, so there's a chance.

• You may think Capcom hates Mega Man with them canceling his games over the past year. Since you like Mega Man, you should go play the incredible fan-made Rokko Chan. It's heavily, heavily, influenced by Mega Man, but stars a little robot girl. Rokko takes on the evil Robot Masters of Hockey Man, Volcano Man, Jet Man, Rolling Man, Forest Man, and Lightning Man. I'm kind of surprised Volcano, Jet, and Lightning Man were never actual Mega Man villains.

• Wipeout 2048 was going to have a zombie mode before it got scrapped. The zombies would be zombified ships that would try to destroy you while you try to shoot or avoid them. It sounds like it would be a cool additional mode, but it could possibly still come out as DLC. Zombie crap has been over done, but zombie racing ships would certainly be a cool variation.

• Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 has finally been announced via brand manager Ken Balough's ridiculous beard of Tail's tails. The actual teaser for Episode 2 basically just announces that Tails and Metal Sonic will be in the game.

• Someone has translated the impossibly difficult Famicom game Takeshi's Challenge from 1986. If you hate yourself, or love the old Takeshi's Challenge show you should give it a play.

• Here's the first looks at Edge Master and Algol in Soul Calibur V. I was kind of hoping Algol was a one-game character, but I guess he's back.

• The first print run of Twisted Metal will have a voucher for a digital version of Twisted Metal: Black.

• Max Factory showed off their sweet Samus figma and a Zero Suit Samus PVC figures at Comiket 81.