Resident Evil 8: Village announced for PS5 in 2021

The latest entry in the seminal survival horror series is here, and it looks scarier than ever.

Brittany Vincent

June 11, 2020 2:00 PM

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A new Resident Evil is finally upon us, and the eighth installment looks like a doozy. Resident Evil: Village (the title technically doesn't have an "8") is an intriguing exercise in survival horror that we can't wait to sink our teeth into.

The eighth installment appears to be a sequel of sorts to Resident Evil 7, as it takes place in the middle of a remote village. Set a few years after Resident Evil 7, it follows Ethan Winters and his wife Mia after they've begun life anew in a new area. However, Chris Redfield ends up coming to crash the party and "disrupts" the couple's life.

As a result, Ethan spirals into depression and seeking answers as far as what happened to him and his wife in a snowy, remote village. The game is set in the first-person perspective and will feature a wide variety of enemies to pursue and visceral action like Resident Evil 7.

Additional information is apparently coming this August, but at least we got a decent amount to kick things off with. It's high time we returned to Resident Evil in terms of moving the series forward, anyway.

Brittany Vincent

Senior Editor

Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, Brittany is a Senior Editor at Shacknews who thrives on surrealism and ultraviolence. Follow her on Twitter @MolotovCupcake and check out her portfolio for more. Like a fabulous shooter once said, get psyched!