Capcom Game Studio Vancouver

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record in stores

Capcom Admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:22:02 +0000

Everyone at Capcom Vancouver are very excited to announce Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is now available from all good games stores. It’s been hard work but the OTR team have built a game the whole studio is really proud of.

If you’ve not seen the launch trailer yet check it out here and see why everyone should be pleased to mark the return of Frank West to our gaming world.

Dead Rising in Comic Book Form

Andrew-Capcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:32:52 +0000

While at Comic-Con, Capcom and IDW Publishing announced a new partnership to create a comic book series based on our hugely popular zombie survival game series, Dead Rising. Deeply entrenched in the game world, IDW Publishing’s Dead Rising: Road To Fortune four-issue series will take place between the original Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2: Case Zero and features many well-known characters from the series.

For the rest of the story check out http://www.capcom-europe.com/blog/2011/07/dead-rising-in-comic-form/.

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record Conquers Comic-Con

Andrew-Capcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:23:59 +0000

Over the last few years Comic-Con has gone from being a small convention for hardcore Comic fans to a big event in the annual movie and videogame calendar.

Where ever comics and videogames collide, you can be guaranteed to find zombies so it wasn’t surprising that there were a lot of Dead Rising 2 fans desperate to play Dead Rising 2: Off the Record at Comic-con. To give them an early peek we sent Executive Producer Jason Leigh to show off the very latest build. During his visit Jason spent time with the GameSpot team speaking with them about the long-awaited return of Frank West. It’s a long video but includes some great real-time footage of Off the Record.

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record will be released on October 11th in North America and 14th October in Europe.

Devil May Cry Art Star Joins Capcom Vancouver

Capcom Admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:09:25 +0000

Capcom Vancouver is pleased to announce Naru Omori has joined as the new Studio Art Director. He’s joining us after many years working at Capcom Headquarters in Osaka where he helped create the art for the Devil May Cry and Dead Rising series. In his new role he will be acting as Art Director for the entire studio; working closely with the individual art directors offering support, advice and his own special insights.

Omori-san says working on Dead Rising was a key turning point in his games career as it gave him a great appreciation of how games are developed globally and also the opportunity to join Capcom Vancouver and help make the bond between the studio and Capcom Japan even tighter.

We would like to welcome Omori-san to the studio and look forward to working with him.

Capcom Vancouver Announces Office Expansion

Capcom Admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:08:05 +0000

Capcom Game Studio Vancouver is pleased to announce its new office expansion. After a year of massive internal growth, the studio has just moved into a brand-new space and invites you to celebrate with them.

The studio became part of the Capcom family when the Japanese gaming giant purchased Blue Castle Games last year after the BC studio’s release of the highly successful Dead Rising 2 videogame. Since the purchase, the studio has been on a significant recruitment drive and is now Vancouver’s fastest growing videogame studio.

To handle such high-speed expansion, the studio has doubled their floor space. The studio took over an outdated space and over the course of six months has created an impressive new space. Earlier this month we opened the doors and moved one of our game teams into the new floor. As well as an entirely new development floor there are five new custom audio rooms, meeting facilities and vidcon rooms for regular meetings with Capcom’s other offices in the US, Europe, Tokyo and development headquarters in Osaka.