Resident Evil Village
2021 video game
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| April 2025 | Sales exceeded 11 million units worldwide. |
| November 2024 | The game had sold over 10.5 million units by this time. |
| 2023 | The game won Best VR / AR Game at The Game Awards 2023. |
| December 2023 | Achieves 9.3 million units sold worldwide by the end of the year. |
| October 30 2023 | Version of the game released for select iPad and iPhone models. |
| October 30 2023 | iOS version of the game was released. |
| June 2023 | Reaches 8.3 million units sold worldwide. |
| February 22 2023 | Virtual reality mode for PlayStation 5 released as free DLC alongside the PlayStation VR2 headset. |
| February 22 2023 | PlayStation VR2 version of Resident Evil Village was released. |
| January 2023 | Sales grow to 7.4 million units worldwide. |
| 2022 | At the 18th British Academy Games Awards, the game was nominated for Artistic Achievement, Technical Achievement, and Performer in a Supporting Role for Maggie Robertson. |
| 2022 | Resident Evil Village was nominated for Game of the Year at the 22nd Game Developers Choice Awards. |
| 2022 | Resident Evil Village won the Award for Excellence at the Japan Game Awards. |
| 2022 | At the 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, the game won Outstanding Achievement in Character for Lady Dimitrescu and was nominated for Adventure Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Animation, and Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction. |
| October 2022 | macOS and Nintendo Switch cloud versions of the game were released. |
| October 28 2022 | MacOS version and Nintendo Switch cloud version of the game released. Winters' Expansion downloadable content launched, including Shadows of Rose story expansion, third-person camera mode, and new Mercenaries mode characters. |
| October 28 2022 | Resident Evil Re:Verse is finally released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One after multiple delays. |
| June 2022 | Game sales increase to 6.4 million units worldwide. |
| May 2022 | Reaches 6.1 million units sold worldwide. |
| 2021 | Resident Evil Village won Game of the Year at the Steam Awards 2021 and was nominated for Outstanding Story-Rich Game. |
| 2021 | At The Game Awards 2021, the game was nominated for Game of the Year, Best Action/Adventure Game, Best Audio Design, and Players' Voice, and won Best Performance for Maggie Robertson. |
| 2021 | Resident Evil Village won multiple Golden Joystick Awards, including Ultimate Game of the Year, PlayStation Game of the Year, Best Audio, and Best Performance for Maggie Robertson. |
| July 2021 | An independent cracker released a pirated version of Resident Evil Village for Windows, which removed the Denuvo and Capcom digital rights management (DRM) software, demonstrating improved game performance. |
| July 2021 | Capcom released an official patch for Resident Evil Village that altered how the game used Denuvo, which improved the game's performance on Windows to levels comparable to the pirated version. |
| June 2021 | Resident Evil Re:Verse multiplayer game was originally planned to launch, but was delayed. |
| May 2021 | Becomes the best-selling game in the United States and United Kingdom during the month. |
| May 7 2021 | Resident Evil Village was released for multiple platforms including PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. |
| May 3 2021 | Resident Evil Village first appears in Japanese gaming charts, ranking first on PlayStation 4 with 111,171 units sold in one week, and fourth on PlayStation 5 with 38,713 units. |
| May 1 2021 | Multi-platform demo released for all platforms, allowing 60 minutes of exploration in both Village and Castle areas, live for a seven-day period. |
| April 30 2021 | A puppet show featuring the four lords was released on YouTube, with each puppet claiming they are not scary. |
| April 24 2021 | Castle demo released for PlayStation early access users, offering 30 minutes of castle exploration, playable once and live for 8 hours. |
| April 15 2021 | Early access demo for PS4 and PS5 users released, allowing 30 minutes of gameplay in the village, playable only once and live for eight hours. |
| March 3 2021 | AMD announced that the PC version of Resident Evil Village would feature ray tracing and AMD FidelityFX technology. |
| February 9 2021 | Ethan Winters experiences a tragic event where Chris Redfield murders his wife Mia and kidnaps Ethan and his six-month-old daughter Rosemary. Their transport van is mysteriously crashed outside the village, forcing Ethan to navigate through the village to rescue his daughter. |
| January 21 2021 | Maiden demo released exclusively for PlayStation 5, providing players with the first playable preview of Resident Evil Village. |
| June 2020 | Resident Evil Village was first announced at the PlayStation 5 reveal event. |
| January 2017 | Resident Evil 7 is released and well-received, prompting the team to decide on making a direct sequel with Ethan Winters as the protagonist. |
| August 8 2016 | Capcom initiates development of Resident Evil Village, with the team starting work while Resident Evil 7 was still months from release. |
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