What you need to know
- GOG, the online digital distribution retailer for PC games, has announced that they’re working with Capcom to re-release the PlayStation One versions of the original Resident Evil trilogy on PC, DRM-free.
- The first game of the trilogy, Resident Evil, is now available on GOG.com to purchase, while Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis will be re-released at a later date.
- Resident Evil is a series of horror games created by Capcom back in the 1990s that has gone on to revolutionize the survival horror genre and become one of Capcom’s best-selling video game franchises.
Last week, Capcom made the shocking announcement of bringing back its classic Marvel Vs. Capcom games to modern consoles (except Xbox), and now it is re-releasing another one of its iconic franchises on PC in partnership with GOG. That’s right, on June 26, 2024, the digital distribution platform, GOG declared that it is working with Capcom to bring back the original Resident Evil trilogy on GOG.com.
The first game, Resident Evil, is available right now, while Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis will come to GOG.com at a later date.
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The original Resident Evil trilogy was ported to Windows PC back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but these old versions are incompatible with modern PCs and Capcom has never ported them to Steam. So if people wanted to play the original Resident Evil games on PC, they had to emulate them via ROMs.
The game that defined the survival horror genre returns – uncut, compatible with modern machines, and scarier than ever…Resident Evil is now available on GOG: https://t.co/CQehBj9GqQOwn a piece of history and play it offline today!@REGames @CapcomUSA pic.twitter.com/4fwQKM688lJune 26, 2024
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Resident Evil Village, or Resident Evil 4 Remake, head over to GOG.com and get your hands on the original Resident Evil to see the origins of one of Capcom’s best-selling franchises.
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