Report: Resident Evil 8 is first-person, takes "serious departures", and will be out next year

Another day, another Resident Evil leak, and this one concerns not another remake but the next instalment of the celebrated horror franchise, colloquially referred to as “Resident Evil 8”.

AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem – the source of many horror-flavoured leaks, including accurate leaks about Resident Evil 3 Remake and those not-yet-accurate Silent Hill leaks (Konami, as you’d probably expect, refutes them) – purports the next instalment of the horror series will release next year.

Interestingly, AestheticGamer reports the game started not as a mainline game but was originally developed as a successor in the Revelations spin-off series. However, Capcom and playtesters were so impressed by early prototypes that it was co-opted to become the next Resident Evil game.

Okay, so the little game is done. This will be breaking this month with more details later not by myself, but I’ve needed to clear some stuff up. “Resident Evil 2021” is Resident Evil 8, but it wasn’t always RE8. During most of its development it existed as Revelations 3.

— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) April 4, 2020

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“Okay, so the little game is done,” AestheticGamer said (thanks, PC Gamer). “This will be breaking this month with more details later not by myself, but I’ve needed to clear some stuff up. “Resident Evil 2021″ is Resident Evil 8, but it wasn’t always RE8. During most of its development it existed as Revelations 3.”