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You can preload Resident Evil Village’s demo nowBefore it opens on the weekend

Before it opens on the weekend

Lady Alcina Dimitrescu of Resident Evil Village standing in the entrance of her castle

Capcom, bless their hearts, have some funny ideas. They’re releasing a demo forResident Evil Villagethis weekend, but it’ll only be playable for a week and will have a hard time limit of 60 minutes total. Heaven forbid people freely play a demo. But I’m still up for it because I’m well up for Village, so how handy that we can now preload the demo and be ready to get stuck right into our… limited fun?

Resident Evil Village’s demo will give players an hour to poke around village and castle sections of the game (are there others? I have no idea). Capcom have previously released village and castle demos separately for PlayStationeers, available for a single day and 30 minutes of play, but this is the PC (and Xbox) debut.

The PC Gaming Weekspot: Resident Evil Village Mercenaries! Resident Evil Village Demo Gameplay!Watch on YouTube

The PC Gaming Weekspot: Resident Evil Village Mercenaries! Resident Evil Village Demo Gameplay!

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As of this morning, you can preload the demoon Steam. It’s an 8.5GB download. The demo won’t be playable just yet but hey, you’ll be ready.

Resident Evil Village is due to launch on May 7th. I will be very disappointed if Lady Dimitrescu turns out to only be in the first ten minutes before the real villain is revealed to be a clone of Albert Wesker or something. Oh I’m annoyed just thinking about that. Capcom don’t you dare make thisResident Evilgame a, uh, Resident Evil game.

Capcom recently announced that Re:Verse, the six-player deathmatch mode thrown into Village for no good reason,will launch this summer.