Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth live-action film based on Capcom's popular survival horror game franchise, is to kick start another trilogy of Resident Evil movies, writer and director Paul W.S. Anderson tells ShockTillYouDrop.

"I don't regard it as Resident Evil 4, I regard it as a re-tooling and rebirth of the entire franchise," Anderson explained. "I wanted to kick off a brand new trilogy."

The director further revealed that the 2010-due, Milla Jovovich-starring flick will utilize stereoscopic 3D and "the same camera system [James] Cameron used for Avatar," and will also have a larger budget than any of his past Resident Evil movies.

As expected, Capcom today officially announced Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. The sequel to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, the Wii light-gun shooter hits this winter, revisiting the events of Resident Evil 2 and other games.

Capcom also revealed that Wii ports of the more traditional Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero entries are coming to North America under the Resident Evil "Classics" line. Both releases are based on the GameCube versions, with added motion controls.

Both of the survival horror ports are slated to arrive later this year, at $29.99 a piece.

Though Capcom has remained rather quiet about the North American release of the computer-generated feature Resident Evil: Degeneration, senior PR director Chris Kramer has affirmed that the movie will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD later this year.

Set seven years after the events of the first Resident Evil game and detailing the latest zombie-killing adventures of RE2 protagonists Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, the all-CG feature is being co-directed by Devil May Cry 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayash.

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The debut trailer for Resident Evil: Degeneration.

While Capcom has always maintained that the film would arrive Japan this year, confirmation that the project is still on track and will hit North America this year came as part of a blog post by Kramer that focused on a Blu-ray.com list of disc specifications and extras for the Sony Pictures co-produced movie.

Those Blu-ray technical specifications and extras follow below... Read more

Tucked away within Capcom's recent financial results was a veritable goldmine of information on the company's worldwide software sales across the past 22 years.

The data is chock full of surprising revelations, such as the part where long-forgotten childhood favorite Duck Tales (NES) has outsold Dead Rising (360).

As pointed out by Next-Gen, Resident Evil is the company's best-selling franchise, amassing 34.5 million units in sales across 50 titles. The whopping 128 editions of Mega Man have sold 28 million worldwide.

Within the realm of individual software sales, the Super Nintendo edition of Street Fighter II reigns as the company's best-selling game ever, pushing 6.3 million units. Sadly absent from the million-seller list is Clover Studios' Okami (PS2, Wii).

Click through for the mind-expanding full list. ... Read more