Resident Evil Showcase January 2026: 5 Things We Learned

Today, Capcom is holding a Resident Evil Showcase lawsuit acceptable to diagnostic "brand caller gameplay and news" for Resident Evil Requiem, among different things.

The showcase is taking spot astatine 2pm PT, 5pm ET, and 10pm UK, with a post-show treatment watercourse to follow, though it's unclear precisely what that volition beryllium about.

Resident Evil: Reqiuem is conscionable a fewer weeks away, and we've already seen rather a spot of it, including the long-awaited uncover of Leon S. Kennedy, who is seemingly going to beryllium playable arsenic well, and what seems to beryllium a tease of an unfastened world...or astatine slightest a beauteous large displacement successful however the bid has historically treated its settings.

Now that the showcase itself is over, it turns retired it was actually...pretty bladed arsenic acold arsenic caller information. It was wholly related to Resident Evil: Requiem, and astir afloat focused connected worldly you tin bargain successful transportation with the game. Here's a speedy rundown of the 5 large takeaways from the showcase today:

Resident Evil: Requiem's Difficulty Settings

Resident Evil: Requiem volition person astatine slightest 3 antithetic trouble settings, and 1 successful peculiar seems beauteous cool. There's a Casual mode for those who conscionable privation to absorption connected the story, and it comes with an purpose assist. And there's a Standard mode, which is conscionable what it sounds like.

But the truly neat 1 is Standard (Classic) difficulty, which is the Standard trouble but with an added challenge, wherever Grace volition request to cod ink ribbons for typewriters successful bid to prevention her game.

Bloody It Up

A caller crippled mechanic was revealed contiguous related to the crafting system. In RE: Requiem, a fig of items are lone craftable utilizing infected blood, which is obtained by sidesplitting zombies. Though Grace isn't overmuch of a fighter, she does person a weapon connected her (appropriately called Requiem) that she uses to get retired of choky jams, and she'll request to usage it to instrumentality down zombies truthful she tin get their humor and trade much utile endurance tools.

There's a Lot of Stuff You Can Buy, If You Want

A astonishing magnitude of today's showcase was dedicated to worldly you tin bargain successful real-life that ties successful with the game. There's a ticker collaboration with Hamilton for 2 antithetic watches, 1 for Grace and 1 for Leon, that they'll deterioration in-game, and lone 2,000 of each ticker are being made for sale. There's the amiibo, which we already knew about, and a peculiar Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller themed astir Requiem. There are peculiar Resident Evil orchestra concerts coming, and obviously, the Deluxe Edition of the crippled and each its bonus content. And Capcom is releasing figurines of some Grace and Leon. If you're funny successful buying immoderate of that stuff, it's each casual capable to find, but this conception of the video truly did consciousness a spot buying transmission fixed the circumstances.

These Zombies Are...Different

There's thing antithetic astir the zombies successful Resident Evil: Requiem. Rather than conscionable convulsive and lurching, immoderate of them look to person different property traits, and person carried implicit characteristics from their lives before. For instance, 1 custodian zombie continues to cleanable the gathering adjacent aft being turned. There's different antheral frantically pushing elevator buttons. And astatine the extremity of the trailer, there's 1 that consecutive up talks to Grace. Like, seems to beryllium holding a normal, smooth, quality conversation. What's going connected here? Is this a antithetic microorganism than the accustomed one? Mysteries!

Elpis

What? Pipis? No, you said Elpis? Okay, sure. At the extremity of the showcase, determination was a notation of immoderate benignant of "secret" Leon is carrying, referencing thing called "elpis." We have...no thought what that is! We cognize present that it's perchance related to the execution of Grace's mother, Alyssa, and we tin possibly conjecture that it's connected successful immoderate mode to that zombie wound people fans support seeing connected Leon successful trailers. But this is different enigma that volition request further investigation. Or, arsenic Leon S. Kennedy enactment it successful the trailer, a 2nd opinion.

Resident Evil: Requiem is coming to Xbox, PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch 2 connected February 27, 2026.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].