A small crowd of movie and game producers met this week at Universal City in Los Angeles for the first-ever 3D Gaming Summit , to sit down and discuss the trend of 3D imaging in gaming and film.

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Click for a closer look Some people would have you believe that the printed word is on the way out, but it turns out the medium is undead after all. No, you’re not i-Majini-ng things, there really is a Resident Evil 5 art book , and it’s shambling to shelves this July. Entitled The Art of Resident Evil 5 , the book is being released by Udon and contains loads of content from the game, including “3D models, character designs, environments, storyboards, and promotional art.” It also includes “never before seen concept art and unused designs,” creator commentary and interviews with the development staff.

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click to Excella-size Of all the characters we can imagine playing in the new Mercenaries Reunion mode in the upcoming Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition , Excella Gionne is probably at the bottom of the list. Well, Ashley — Leon’s little tag-along in Resident Evil 4 — might rank lower. While the press release assures us that Excella’s “mercilessness contrasts with her beauty” and that she has a “strong fighting instinct backed up by superior martial art skills,” it seems just a little suspect

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Capcom has updated its official Japanese Resident Evil 5 site , revealing the new enemy featured in the upcoming Gold Edition retail and (assorted) DLC release of the game. The new nemesis is an unnamed and extremely grotesque behemoth who carries a large key-like anchor, stalking the underground of Spencer’s Mansion in the content’s Lost in Nightmares episode. According to an English translation of the character card, players can hunt down the beast to obtain heavy weapons such as a sickle.

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Capcom’s recently published financial report for the first half of the current fiscal year contains some fairly gutsy estimates for sales expectations of the developer’s upcoming titles — for instance, the report anticipates selling 300,000 copies of Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition by March 31, 2010. However, the company expects one game to be its biggest blockbuster by a fairly enormous sales margin: Lost Planet 2 , which, according to the report, will sell 3.7 million copies in the second half of FY 2010. That’s a fairly monumental increase compared to the sales statistics for the original Lost Planet , which has sold 2.28 million units life-to-date according to VGChartz .

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Over at Capcom Unity , they’re polling individuals on what they would like to see in a localized version of the recently revealed Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition . In Japan, the title is coming on a new disc to the retail space, but Capcom is still entertaining different delivery solutions for North America and Europe, namely digital distribution as DLC for the original game

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Coupons: An astounding deal on a very desirable piece of console hardware leads this week’s roundup, but lets be careful to read that which is printed fine – or not at all. Hardware • Meritline is offering a 120GB hard drive for Xbox 360 for $79.97, but let’s carefully notice the semantics here

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