Capcom hasn’t announced a thing. But the internet already knows almost everything.
This week, information the Japanese studio clearly wasn’t ready to share found its way online — details covering multiple projects across two of its biggest franchises. Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, new engines, internal codenames, protagonist reveals, story DLC — all of it traced back to people who’ve been right before.
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Devil May Cry 1 Remake Confirmed by Insiders: Dante Is Coming Back
Let’s start with what DMC fans have been waiting for the longest.
According to the leak, Capcom is developing a full remake of the original Devil May Cry — the 2001 game where it all began. That’s where Dante first showed up in his red coat, dual pistols in hand, with a style that hundreds of games have tried to copy ever since. The original hasn’t aged gracefully: fixed camera angles, stiff animation, combat that DMC3 completely reimagined and DMC5 perfected. A remake is the chance to take the legend and rebuild it for what gaming looks like today.
One important caveat: Dusk Golem, the most trusted voice in Resident Evil leak circles, publicly distanced himself from this part of the story. He stated the DMC1 remake information didn’t come from him. But at this point, the news has taken on a life of its own — and there’s no putting that fire out.
Resident Evil Zero, RE1 and Code Veronica Remakes: Codenames and Development Status
Where the DMC sources still disagree, the Resident Evil picture is far more coherent.
According to the leak, Capcom held an internal meeting in June or July of 2022 where a whole package of projects got the green light — not one remake, but several at once. Each has an internal codename, and some already have a clearer development status:
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Project Chambers — Resident Evil Zero remake
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Project Fallen — original Resident Evil remake
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Code: Veronica remake — no public codename yet, but confirmed in the same batch
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Project Redlife — Resident Evil 10
The furthest along appears to be Project Fallen: the RE1 remake reportedly cleared pre-production and has moved into full development. The others seem to be at earlier stages for now.
There’s also a piece of circumstantial evidence that gives the whole story more credibility. In that same year — 2022 — Capcom quietly shut down several fan-made projects: amateur remakes of RE Zero, Code: Veronica, and RE1. The timing lines up with the reported meeting in a way that’s hard to dismiss as coincidence.
Resident Evil 10 (Project Redlife): REX Engine and Claire Redfield as Protagonist
The tenth mainline entry is interesting on two levels — the character and the technology behind it.
The leak names Claire Redfield as the protagonist of RE10. The last time she led a game was Code: Veronica, back in 2000. Twenty-five years ago. Since then she’s appeared here and there, but never at the center. If the rumor holds up, this would be the comeback the series has quietly owed her for decades — and it makes narrative sense too, since the Code: Veronica remake appears to be arriving first, reintroducing Claire to a new generation right before RE10 hands her the spotlight.
Then there’s the engine. Both RE10 and the Resident Evil Zero remake are reportedly being built on REX Engine — a new internal platform, separate from the RE Engine that’s powered every major Capcom release in recent years. What that means in practice for players isn’t clear yet, but switching technology at this scale usually signals something more than an incremental upgrade.
Resident Evil Requiem Story DLC: Ada Wong Is Returning
The ninth entry — Resident Evil Requiem — only just came out, but Capcom apparently already has its next chapter mapped out.
According to the same leak, Requiem will receive multiple story DLC packs. At least one of them will feature Ada Wong — the spy who’s been a fan favorite since RE2, and whose appearances always tend to complicate everything in the best possible way. This is the one detail in the entire leak that Dusk Golem personally verified. So here, at least, the skepticism dial can come down a notch.
Capcom has done this before. Resident Evil Village got its story expansion — Shadows of Rose — about a year after launch, and it landed well with fans, closing out plot threads the main game left open. Requiem seems set to follow the same playbook.
How Credible Is the Capcom 2026 Leak? Breaking Down the Sources
The bulk of this information comes from an insider known as StiviwonderN. His connection to Dusk Golem gives the leak some weight, but Dusk Golem himself drew a clear line: Ada Wong in DLC — confirmed. Everything else — not from me.
The publication estimates the reliability of the leak as a whole at three out of five. That’s not “take every word as gospel,” but it’s also nowhere near “random noise from the internet.” There’s too much specificity here — meeting dates, internal project names, development phases, engine details. That kind of precision is harder to fabricate convincingly than it looks.
Capcom hasn’t commented, and almost certainly won’t — not until the studio decides it’s ready to step on stage itself. But if even half of this turns out to be accurate, the next few years for fans of both Resident Evil and Devil May Cry are going to be very busy.
