Blue Castle Games is on a roll.
The Burnaby video-game developer’s Dead Rising: Case Zero has sold nearly half a million copies on Xbox Live Arcade, according to publisher Capcom. The game bridges 2006’s Dead Rising and Blue Castle’s Dead Rising 2, which will be released for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on September 28.
When I interviewed Blue Castle president Rob Barrett this summer, he said that he wanted to keep working with Capcom. “We’ve had a fantastic relationships with them,†he said.
Barrett got his wish.
Today at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom announced it was acquiring the studio. Capcom’s managing corporate officer, Keiji Inafune, made the announcement during Capcom’s press briefing.
Blue Castle Games becomes Capcom Game Studios Vancouver.
Also announced was that Blue Castle/Capcom Vancouver is working on another downloadable chapter in the Dead Rising storyline. Dead Rising: Case West will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360. No release date was specified.
The epilogue will feature Chuck Greene, protagonist of Dead Rising 2, working with photojournalist Frank West, who was the hero of the first game.
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