{"id":114142,"date":"2020-06-12T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/364687"},"modified":"2020-06-12T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:57:00","slug":"resident-evil-becomes-first-capcom-franchise-to-surpass-100-million-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/resident-evil-becomes-first-capcom-franchise-to-surpass-100-million-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil becomes first Capcom franchise to surpass 100 million sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong><em>Resident Evil<\/em>&nbsp;has become the first franchise in Capcom history to surpass&nbsp;100 million worldwide sales, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/english\/news\/html\/e200612b.html?_pb_uid=1776\">according to a press release sent out by the studio<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The survival horror series&nbsp;was launched back in 1996, and has since grown into a flagship property for Japanese developer-publisher Capcom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company has spent the past few years reimagining classic entries in the series with the release of titles like <em>Resident Evil 2 Remake<\/em>, and yesterday announced the latest entry in the core series, <em>Resident Evil Village,<\/em> during the PlayStation 5 showcase (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/364623\/Sony_unveils_PlayStation_5_design_but_remains_silent_on_price.php\">where we also got our first look at the next-gen console<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Resident Evil&nbsp;has become the first franchise in Capcom history to surpass&nbsp;100 million worldwide sales, according to a press release sent out by the studio.&nbsp; The survival horror series&nbsp;was launched back in 1996, and has since grown into a flagship property for Japanese developer-publisher Capcom.&nbsp; The company has spent the past few years reimagining classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}